This is a very sensitive issue in Korea and we want to thank everyone for giving their honest opinions, regardless of their position. For full disclosure, we could not get any of the refugees to show their faces on camera due to their fear of backlash. Over the course of two full days, we tried to get as many different perspectives as we could, but we realize that the small sample of opinions do not and cannot reflect the views of the general Korean population.
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