the context being, north korea was really hard and terrible but there was family, friends, neighbors, everyone was in it together; in their new life in south korea, everyone was isolated from each other and they felt intense pressure to work very hard, alone
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Would be interesting to see the inverse- A south korean moving to NK. But I doubt that'll ever happen.
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Crash landing on you
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Same but India to the US
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I imagine one key difference was that this person's family and friends were all still back in North Korea, so they were jumping into a new life in a new country all alone. Misery loves company.
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There's also the thing where is you commit suicide in NK they imprison or kill your entire extended family, so it probably doesnt come up as often as a viable escape
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Yes, evidence for that please.
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You're cut off from your family, possibly feeling guilty that your family will be punished for your escape, and you are alone in a strange and foreign land. How do you NOT feel suicidal?
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Victor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning: "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way."
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