About the Author
Jung Hwan Jang
Jung Hwan Jang is a junior researcher at the Asia Institute.
In the first few decades of the split between North and South Korea, there was little movement between the two countries. Very few defected, and these were mostly men and soldiers, who were referred to as ‘defecting warriors.'
But since the mid-1990s this number of refugees has been rapidly increasing and most are not soldiers, but women, children, and young adults.