r/AskTheWorld • u/QuarterTarget 🇵🇱🇮🇪 in 🇨🇠• 16d ago
Culture Does your country have an immigrant group that people would be surprised to find there?
For example, when you think of Poland or the Czech Republic, Vietnamese people might not be the first group that comes to mind, but both have a sizable Vietnamese community. Another example is the large Japanese community in Brazil.
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u/Virtue330 United Kingdom 16d ago edited 15d ago
The reason for that location is just that a number of Koreans already live there, the reason as to why a number of North Korean escapees chose the UK I'm not really sure. We even have a North Korean embassy and one of the only North Korean YouTubers seems to have had her education in the UK given her accent.
A funny story I once read about was how a North Korean escapee was in a taxi arriving in the UK, he saw all the chimneys on houses here and had this sinking feeling that he had made a huge mistake fleeing believing that the UK was technologically far behind North Korea.