Half-Chinese youth defectors have undergone isolation and exclusion in South Korean society, the founder of Durihana church and school told NK News.

Chun Ki-won has been working at saving defectors since the 1990s creating routes from China to South Korea. Now, he is taking care of young defectors, especially those ostracized for reasons of ethnicity.

While working in China, Chun said he met many female defectors living with a Chinese husband, who eventually make the journey to South Korea with their children. Such children are not entitled to the same benefits their pure Korean mothers are, and this is