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    The school teaching North Korean refugees how to live in the South

    More than 100 students attend Yeomyung school in Seoul, where they are taught the quirks of assimilating, from using credit cards to navigating the metro
    by Benjamin Haas in Seoul May 28, 2018 3 minutes
    Students from the Yeomyung school at a graduation ceremony in January. Photograph: Yeomyung school

    Pak Sool marched down a flight of stairs, descending into Seoul’s metro for the first time at the age of 19, only to stare at the spaghetti-bowl map of the transit system and then – feeling nervous and embarrassed – simply give up.

    It was one of the many moments that have confounded the North Korean refugee since his recent arrival in the South.Shopping, using a cash machine and even , peppered with English slang,

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