In the midst of my research on the North Korean crisis, I came across this quote from a North Korean defector (newly living free in Seoul) that really made me think about how money controls so many of us, and how we are severely blinded in our pursuit of wealth.
"Shin also struggles to understand why prosperous Koreans in the South seem so uninterested in and unmoved by the suffering of tens of thousands of fellow Koreans living in torment in the North's prisons.
"I don't want to be critical of this country, but I would say that out of the total population of South Korea, only .001 percent has any real understanding of or interest in North Korea," Shin said. "Only a few decades ago, the South Koreans had their own human rights issues. But rapid growth and prosperity has made them forget."
That hits too close to home for me.
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