Human Rights in Korea: South Korea as an Indirect Accomplice in Human Rights Violations in the North

In the spring of 2011, I traveled to the Republic of Korea under a faculty ty exchange grant sponsored by the Università Ca' Foscari and Ewha Women's University, Seoul, to study the migration of Koreans escaping well documented starvation and human rights abuses in North Korea and their integration in the South. I was generously assisted by colleagues at Ewha Women's University, who arranged interviews for me with government officials, NGOs and other social institutions. I was also given substantial help by Korean and international journalists and from the local office of the UNHCR. Since my return, I have continued to research the issue, and the re­port presented here should be considered very much a work in progress