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World Service,2 mins

A North Korean refugee’s comic strip takes off

Boston Calling

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30,000 North Korean defectors fleeing to South Korea might not seem like a storyline rife with laughter. But in his popular online comic strip series, Choi Seong-guk attempts to bring some humour to what is an often harrowing journey and difficult resettlement. Jason Strother reports. (Image: A challenge for many North Korean defectors is to learn borrowed foreign words that have become part of the southern vernacular. Credit: Choi Seong-guk)

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