Hong Kyung Eui was once a proud member of Chongryon, the pro-DPRK organization of ethnic Koreans in Japan. The group gave him a sense of identity and belonging in a country where ethnic Koreans have long faced discrimination.
He first learned of the group decades ago as an undergraduate in Osaka. Japan’s second-largest city is home to more Koreans than any other place in Japan, and Hong soon fell in with Chongryon student circles.
Hong Kyung Eui was once a proud member of Chongryon, the pro-DPRK organization of ethnic Koreans in Japan. The group gave him a sense of identity and belonging in a country where ethnic Koreans have long faced discrimination.
He first learned of the group decades ago as an undergraduate in Osaka. Japan’s second-largest city is home to more Koreans than any other place in Japan, and Hong soon fell in with Chongryon student circles.
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