North Koreans In Los Angeles Are Facing Discrimination—In Koreatown (HBO)
North Koreans living in Los Angeles had a lot to worry about, even before the Trump-Kim summit was announced.
Los Angeles’ Koreatown hosts the largest population of North Koreans in the United States. But while iving in an area where so many residents also speak their language can make easing into American society less daunting, they can also face discrimination — from other Koreans.
“Some North Koreans, they hide the fact that they’re from North Korea,” says Sarah Cho, founder of an organization that helps defectors start their new lives in the US. She says that while many South Koreans are curious and helpful to newly arrived North Korean immigrants, others can be abusive.
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“Some North Koreans, they hide the fact that they're from North Korea.”
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Thats america for u
that guy was right. kim jong un will never give up his nukes
Kim Young Un loves nukes!
This is so common that its depicted in some K-dramas ive watched where a North Korean its looked down upon.
There's no north or south Koreans all are one race.
Its taken you westerners that long to realise Asians are one of the most racist race on the planet. Talk to people in Hong Kong what they thought about the Chinese 15 years ago. Ask a Chinese what they think of Hong Kong people and the rest of the world now.
Thats so crazy! If I saw a North Korean I would want to bake them cookies everyday and treat them with such overwhelming kindness! People are so backwards:(
I don't understand why they would discriminate. I mean, why are you upset with people escaping from somewhere? They can't leave on their own and have been brainwashed and mistreated. It's like they're escaping from a cult. "I bet you're glad to be free," should be one of the first things you say or, "How are you doing?" Why be like, "No pay for you!"
"If you let them live well, why would they ever want to leave?"
somehow this is white peoples fault
Some korean american especially in the west coast, they are really mean and their culture is like the one of korea’s 70s.
That small punk. Little punk.
I'm surprised there are no white, teenaged Bolshevik LARPers here to call her a paid CIA mouthpiece or some shit like that.
You are wrong ; how a person that was prive of anything now feels discriminate? You are just a bunch of ignorant that try to make NK look as a victims , yes they are victims but victims of they regiments . So vice get another subject to talk about and let the world turn ; she can go back to NK at the end of the day.
how would anyone know of your North Korean and why would a free person of a democracy persecute you for being north verses south, it sounds like propaganda story to me ,
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This woman has endured such unbearable suffering.
SHE IS A BEAUTIFUL, STRONG & PROUD WOMAN. I WISH U WELL / GOD BLESS
I hope she learns English so she wont have to live in an Asian community
Did they say there's only 50 of them in LA? That sure doesn't seem like a whole lot to do a mini-doc about. They running out of ideas?
yooo. as soon as I saw that dude's hair, I busted up laughing. Like bro, you gonna try to be serious with that?
I am a Korean and I could barely understand what she was saying when she was talking about her son. Like I had to literally rewind several times and still have no clue. Feel like she's saying deliberately in a very blurred and unclear way because she's making things up. I've heard North Koreans deliberately claiming false things or heavily exaggerate what they experience for attention and money. Even same North Koreans confirmed this and they feel very angry against them. I mean I don't know, I know the life situation is not as good as here but I am not sure to what extent we can trust what they are saying.
We are never racist to north Korea
Im in Seoul right now and tbh Koreans don't really like outsiders. Some are very nice but to get an idea of Korean culture just look at the refugee crisis in Jeju right now.
they are looking down upon them cause the North Koreans don't have the plastic faces
Did you really have to open their faces…………………………………? Isn't it dangerous? Also, it's so wrong for other Koreans to take advantage of them and not pay them. Like wtf
Ten out of ten to the guy for keeping a straight face while wearing that comedy haircut!
Lol theres north koreans in los angeles?
I feel discriminated daily and im a american citizen….
Wow! She has been through so much yet her skin is so beautiful!
유시민은 김정은이 훌륭한 지도자 라고요! ??감사합니다
유시민하하하하
no ones going to talk about the sick fucks buying women as wifes like its some sort of product!?
lol if they went out side of korean town, non korean people would assume they are chinese instead of korean
Weird that people discriminate against their brothers and sisters that have been through so much. But the same happened in West and East Germany. I was 12 at the time the Berlin Wall came down, and yes we did have prejudices against the "Ostler" (Eastlings). I'll admit, I was part of it. It took a few years for friendships to form and to realize that although our culture had drifted apart a little bit through those few decades of divide, "Ostler" and "Westler" had much more in common than they had differences. I was young and fairly open-minded, and I was in Berlin were we had much more contact with people from the east, and even then it took a few years. Now, decades later there are still many people in west Germany that have prejudices.
Who are 2nd class
Fake
brutal. what sweet heart tho why hasn't a nice american man made her his gf?
6 minutes and he never asked, "Why?"
What. How can a group so small get any footing to get negative attention like that?
No one has it good. Everyone suffer in one way or form. No perfect life
You can't just simply say "but she eventually got out of that marriage and traveled to the U.S"
…. wtf happened in between? It isn't that easy from China to the U.S. what did her Chinese husband DO for her? ?
Americans are the most stupid people in the world. Western society is the best society in the world, that Americans take eveeything they have for granted.
They should get out of Koreatown and discover the acceptance from Americans
so sad, hopefully or society can evolve past this all
Please do a segment on racist black Americans.
This people aren’t even North Koreans, I speak Korean and they don’t have accent or vocabulary of the North.
I went to Koreatown luckily I didn't see anyone discriminate even if they did I would step in to help
Click bait. 3:07 they briefly talk about it. This is just a documentary about north korean immigrants.
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