“Ask a North Korean” is an NK News series featuring interviews with and columns by North Korean defectors, most of who left the DPRK within the last few years.

Readers may submit their questions for defectors by emailing [email protected] and including their first name and city of residence.

Today’s question is: What do you miss about life in North Korea? 

Sersong Han — who was born and raised in North Korea and lived there until he defected in 2014 — writes about transportation in the South, the atomization of society, why long bus rides in the DPRK weren’t all bad,