The echoes of well-known North Korean songs celebrating friendship spilled into nearby neighborhoods, as families filled booths serving both North and South Korean treats such as the deep-fried confection yakgwa, and fruit punch, or hwachae.
A booth at the Defectors' Day festival sells North Korean styles of traditional treats, including watermelon punch (hwachae) and the deep-fried sweet yakgwa.
Maybe there (are) many thousands of thousands of North Korean defectors who want to come to (South) Korea and have a prosperous life.
“We express our respect and applause to the 34,000 North Korean defectors who are pioneering new lives every day (in South Korea), he said.
“I didn’t know that a day like Defectors’ Day would happen, but now that it has been established, I feel like I have to work harder,” she said.
Persons:
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Organizations:
South Korea CNN —, North, South, CNN, ”, Sunday, Blue House
Locations:
Seoul, South Korea, North Korea, Pyongyang, North, South, Korean, China, Asia, South Koreans, Korea, North Koreans