Minorities in Gyeonggi Province Including North Korean Defectors and Sakhalin Koreans Participate in Voting

North Korean defectors (saeteomin), Sakhalin Koreans, and comfort women survivors residing in Gyeonggi Province also visited polling stations on the 11th to cast their precious votes.

Fifteen students from Hangyoreh Middle and High School, a school for defected youth in Anseong, Gyeonggi Province, completed their voting at nearby Gwangseon Elementary School with the assistance of accompanying teachers.

This was the first time these students participated in voting in the South. Hangyoreh Middle and High School, which opened in March 2006, currently has approximately 170 North Korean defector students enrolled.
　
Residents of 'Hometown Village' in Sa-1-dong, Ansan City, Gyeonggi Province, where Sakhalin returnee Koreans live together, also participated in voting that day.
　
Additionally, five comfort women survivors living at 'House of Sharing' in Gwangju City, Gyeonggi Province, exercised their voting rights at a polling station set up at Toechon-myeon Office with the assistance of facility staff.