Kotjebi, kotchebi, or ggotjebi (Korean: 꽃제비; RR: kkotjebi; MR: kkotchebi; lit. flowering swallows) is a Korean term for North Korean homeless people,...

countries. In China, these illegal North Korea child immigrants are called the Kotjebi. In 1996, the government accepted UN food aid. The international environment...

some of the darker aspect of life under the regime, such as the issue of kotjebi (child homelessness) and the frequent power cuts. Some North Korean refugees...

famine resulted in a population of homeless, migrant children known as Kotjebi. The exact number of deaths during the acute phase of the crisis, from...

orphaned North Korean homeless children living in China are called the Kotjebi. In 2001, the Scottish Parliament came into place. It was agreed by all...

homeless children known as kotjebi, or "flower swallows" in Korean. In 2018, Daily NK reported that the government was interning kotjebi in kwalliso camps and...

experimentation in North Korea Korean War POWs detained in North Korea Kotjebi, a Korean term denoting North Korean homeless children and elderly. North...

North Korea for China in 1997 but was caught and imprisoned. Kang was a kotjebi (homeless child). When he was 9 or 10 years old he witnessed a public execution...

newspaper Hankyoreh. In the interview he spoke about the footage he leaked of Kotjebis, which was included in Korean Broadcasting System's 1998 documentary. He...

Chun-hyeok, a South Korean who defected from North Korea and lived as a kotjebi there. Photographer Kim Jung-man presented the topic of Utopia, mentioning...