Prof. Seok-Hyang Kim is a professor at the Ewha Woman’s University in Seoul, South Korea, and chair holder of the Department of North Korean Studies. She studied Sociology at the Ewha Woman’s University and graduating with a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Georgia in Athens, the USA on “The Juche Ideology of North Korea: Socio-political Roots of Change”. She is currently working and researching North Korean Studies, Inter-Korean relations, minority issues in North Korea, and everyday life in North Korea as well as Defectors’ life after leaving North Korea.