North Korean refugees do exist and even if its more likely to meet a South Korean, wouldn’t it be discrimatory and erasing to just assume all Koreans you meet are from the south?
Especially since South Koreans normally don’t make the distinction of north and south but talk about one Korea. In my expierience, foreign born Korean don’t do this, but Korean born Koreans do.
I know y’all are trying to be open minded, so first off, you’re doing great! That said, you’re doing so well it’s kind of at risk of being opened so wide your brain might fall out
Seriously though, I would absolutely think someone was… being silly (to put it nicely) if they asked which Korea an American was from (this for sure wouldn’t apply to an 8 year old tho)
Not to mention the third Korea, which sounds so Chic (⁀ᗢ⁀)
My SO is Korean and we get this all the time. I don’t even think it’s always a joke, some people just honestly don’t understand how restrictive N. Korea is…
There are around 100,000 north koreans working abroad. It’s not so unreasonable of a question as you’d think
Plus about 50,000 have managed to defect over the past 30 years.
150k is about 0.000183% of the world population
Ok, that’s more than twice the population of Wyoming’s capital. If I don’t ignore that Wyomingites exists then there’s no reason to ignore that North Koreans exist outside of North Korea
