North Korean-born designer tells stories of fellow defectors through fashion

Posted : 2021-05-04 13:35
Updated : 2021-05-04 17:16
By Park Han-sol
For North Korean-born Kang Ji-hyun, her chance sighting of a foreign tourist at Mount Paektu at the age of 15 forever changed her life.
What started out as a routine family trip to the mountain became her first time spotting an actual foreigner outside the television screens and textbooks. What caught her eyes wasn't his height or his unkempt beard ― but his ripped jeans.
He must be a beggar, she immediately thought to herself, asking her father why in the world a homeless person would be walking around Mount Paektu. Her father, after some thought, told her that the tourist's clothing must be a sign not of his status but rather his choice of style.

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