This was the headline for the article: "Woman, 23, reveals how she trekked for two months across mountains and crocodile-infested river to flee North Korea after being forced to work for 15 hours a day down a coal mine for 50p a day."
Below are photos from the fun photo shoot that day, to get prepared for John Power's article about Sharon Jang.
One of her tutors, Peter Daley, joined to teach a class as part of the photo shoot.
TNKR co-founder Eunkoo Lee also joined that day.
Scroll down the article, you will see Ken Eom's face censored. He is now public, but that was not the case in all of 2015 when he joined TNKR.
2020 comment: A few days ago, an American colleague in the USA who has donated to TNKR a few times wrote to me that he is amazed that the North Korean refugees he has encountered remain so optimistic.
Despite the many things that Sharon went through in North Korea, China, and even in South Korea, she is always so lovely and kind. Please read her touching comment after I set up a birthday fundraiser for her earlier this year.
TNKR doesn't focus on the negative things that NK refugees went through or are going through, we tend to focus on opportunities to do something now. The article by John Power is a reminder about the pain and oppression many have had to overcome to get to freedom.
