“Choon Mi”, who kept a kind and warm heart - tucked her clothes on
Jina’s shoulders in a recent video,
“Jina’s desperate prayers”,
without participating in Friday service, went home to have a conversation with
her mother. Her mother who was exhausted from work and became utterly worned-out
and went to bed - asked Choon Mi
to chat in the next day. Chun Mi felt she was ignored, and at
1:16am she left a message, “see you in heaven” to
‘Durihana’
students.
Choon Mi
who had excellent painting skills, always wanted to become an
artist. But the news from her mother this morning that she jumped off from the
9th floor of her apartment, was tragic. From 10am this morning, which held for
7 hours, she went through a major surgery and now she is in ICU. It is heart-breaking
to hear from a doctor that she has to live as paraplegic patient for rest of
her life.
Most of
‘Durihana
students’, under a single parent, cannot live with their families
but live with friends who are in similar situations and have similar sorrowful
hearts in Durihana dorm. As most North Korean defector mothers are, they are deprived
of freedom, trafficked in the process of escaping from North Korea, and fear
of abuse and repatriation and had to go through the unwanted marriage. Though
their fear will never go away from their hearts, they cannot live with their
adolescent children due to cultural, environmental, financial problems, and
longing for their families in China or North Korea. They have to live very stressful
and challenging lives.
The hard realities eventually affect their children. Their children
also suffer from language problems, cultural difference and mostly like to be
bullied. In their families, with newly introduced step mother or father and
broken families, in every way, young students have to suffer from stresses,
distresses and severe pain. The burden to bear and the barrier to overcome these
problems are too heavy and high for these young second generation defectors’
children. Please, pray for all
durihana
students, and especially for Choon Mi who was diagnosed to be paraplegic, that through God’s grace,
let miracle to be experienced and let it become her testimony in her life.