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The number of North Korean defectors in Korea has tripled in 10 years. Most of them do not form a common family, so they live day by day with severe prejudice, discrimination and loneliness.

Reporter Kim Hee-nam reports.

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North Korean war orphans receive entrusted education in Poland in the 1950s, shortly after the Korean War.

[(What is this?) This is a pen. (What is this?) This is a lamp.]

[At the time, the nursery restaurant staff: 'A quick meal,' 'Aigo ~' I sighed.]

North Korea sent war orphans as socialist allies for nine years, from 1951 to 1959.

It is estimated that as many as 1,500 people were sent in Poland alone.

After adjusting to life in Poland, the children returned to North Korea in nine years, after which life was more difficult.

[At the time of nursing home director: I think I was trying to walk from Poland to Poland if it was hard to go back. I heard that while crossing the Chinese border, he died in a rice paddy.]

North Korean defector Lee Song-song appeared in the documentary film Children Going to Poland.

Eleven years ago, she defected alone in 2008 without her family and says she is like a stranger.

[I am from Hyesan, Yangsong Province: I am now Korean but I am not Korean. Because wherever I go, there is always a tail behind me, a North Korean.]

The number of North Korean defectors who have settled in South Korea is currently more than 33,000, among them 2,500 young people, a 2.6 times increase in 10 years.

Since warm care is desperate for them, they feel greater vacancy in their parents.

[Kim Won-il / Hambuk Onsung: I think I felt a lot of vacancy. I came over to live with my mom, but I can't live together. .]

[Hanjin Beom / Yanggangdo Baekam: I think I'm kind of hungry. Should someone say something hungry or something?]

According to the South-South Hana Foundation, more than 51.2% of North Korean defectors live alone or live with a single parent.

[Shin Hyo-suk / Manager of the North and South Hana Foundation: If the whole family came together, I would be less troubled, but women bring only children… .]

More than 33,000 North Korean defectors and their families living apart from each other, they may be our self-portraits standing at risk at the other boundary between North and South.

(Video coverage: Choi Ho-joon, Park Hyun-chul, Video source: Press documentary 'Kim Ki Dok' (Polish national TVN1), Documentary film 'Children who went to Poland' (Shu Sang Mi))