#46: “South Woman” in North Korea: being undocumented US childhood to North Korea work.
Sun shares how she was born in the US andkept moving frequently as the child of undocumented parents. Once she was detained in Maryland, separated from her parents and placed with a foster family, then deported to Seoul at age eight.
She describes adapting to Korea’s communalculture, the intense education-and-work ethos of the 1980s -90s, and later returning to the US for Rutgers and graduate school before working as a translator/interpreter and adjunct professor.
A 2011–12 Associated Press assignment interpreting North Korean dialect introduced her to North Koreans and led tomultiple trips…
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