99 and earned around 7,000 Won. Having earned that money I said, ‘&ow I can go home’. (Yi Chunhui, 2009, 1-6) Despite having ended up in this remote place and without even knowing the language, Yi Chunhui (2009, 1-6) did not give in to resignation but started to work in a factory which recycled vinyl into plastic boxes. She went to work earlier than her colleagues and worked for 12 hours a day. Once she had saved up a considerable amount of money she handed 3,000 Won over to the Chinese man who had bought her and set off for North Korea. Kim Yeonghui (2009, 1-5), too, was introduced by her friend’s relatives to a place where she could work as a housekeeper for one month once she had arrived in Yanji. She worked as a housemaid for an elderly couple who lived by selling sunflower seeds on the streets, but was eventually deceived by someone who claimed to be able to help her escape from this place and was sold to a Chinese man living in Dunhua, in Jilin Province. Kim Yeonghui (2009, 1-5) mentions that “He was someone who had never been married before and one year younger than me. But, at that time, when I observed him, really, there are certain kinds of people, you know. He was broadminded, didn’t speak loudly, really nice, knew nothing but work. But because it was such a lonely mountain village, what kind of woman would readily get married and come to this place? So I lived with this man for around 10 years.” As Kim Yeonghui (2009, 1-5) was a woman who had graduated from a vocational college in North Korea and who had run a business producing and selling liquor in North Korea, she suggested making for the city instead of staying on the farm. When I lived in &orth Korea I was active in the liquor business and earned money, so [I said], ‘Let’s go somewhere and build up a liquor factory. And this husband of mine, he agreed straight away! So we sold the house and bought a house with some money we had, not in the city but somewhere in the outskirts, and established a liquor factory. In the beginning we didn’t have enough seed capital, so my sisters-in-law lent us a lot, but we paid the money back for a year, and then, [until I left] I lived doing that liquor business. For around 9 years. … I plucked up a lot of courage and took around 20,000 Won. These 20,000 Won wasn’t money my husband had given me, but you know, I was producing and selling alcohol. We sold alcohol but we sold it in refills. When people came with their casks, we filled their containers. It was money I had saved up over 5 years by selling alcohol without my husband knowing of it. (Kim Yeonghui, 2009, 1-5)