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Ifang Bremer
Ifang Bremer is a Seoul Correspondent at NK News. He has worked on investigations for The Guardian and The Observer and previously wrote features on Korea for Dutch newspaper NRC.
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News Chinese firms use North Korean prison labor to make wigs for global sale: ReportInvestigation finds forcibly repatriated women work up to 20 hours daily and that output is disguised as ‘Made in China’ Chinese firms are using North Korean prison labor to produce wigs and fake eyelashes for export, according to a new report, disguising the finished goods as “Made in China” to facilitate their sale around the world. The investigation by the Seoul-based nongovernmental organization Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights (NKHR) claims that the prisoners work up to 20 hours per day and that their output could end up on major ecommerce sites like Amazon, China’s Temu and South Korea’s Gmarket. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |