Industries such as fishing are growing in North Korea, even if those who take part in them face many challenges, a defector said Tuesday.

Cho Soon-seon, who left North Korea in April 2014 and arrived in South Korea last December, discussed her commercial experiences in Seoul at a press organized by a number of defectors’ organizations.

Cho, who used to work in Wonsan, a port city in Kangwon Province discussed her experiences dealing with shellfish in a rapidly marketizing North Korea.

“It was particularly hard for me to pioneer new markets to get shellfish, as I was not a local