Seoul: For a young Afghan refugees, his new home in South Korea has brought simple freedom he will refuse.
“In Afghanistan, you cannot carry out activities freely like men, and satisfying to do taekwondo without hijab in Korea today,” the girl told reporters after the Taekwondo class on Wednesday.
He was one of the nearly 400 Afghan Afghanistan Afghacues who arrived in Seoul in August under a special program that aims to provide long-term residences to Afghanistan and their families who provide special services to South Korea.
Along with other refugees who spoke to reporters, the girl was not identified based on age or name based on an agreement with South Korean government officials.
The Ministry of Justice said it gave Korean language refugees as part of the “social integration program,” and all had received an alien registration card.
They currently live in processing facilities, officials said.
“Most of my experience living in Afghanistan has so far been a war, and when I listened to the history I heard from my parents, I only heard of war,” a boy in the Taekwondo class told reporters.
“Now, life in Korea is stable and I enjoy life.”