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2005 was an ambivalent year for the promotion of human rights in North Korea. But that year, several students from Sookmyung Women’s University were inspired by a near complete lack of interest in the issue, not just from ordinary people but also from the academic community. As intellectuals, they couldn’t tolerate South Korean society’s indifference to the abuses of universal human rights going on under the North Korean dictatorship.
This critical mind gave birth to the North Korean human rights student group HANA, the first of its kind in the Seoul area. HANA arranges various events to let people know about the food insecurity that persists in North Korea.
Daily NK recently met HANA’s president and vice-president, Lim Ji Won and Hong Ju Young as they were organizing a “riceball event” within the school, a place to experience first-hand the nature of North Korean food shortages. We asked them about their activities.
