The Seoul-based non-profit Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG) was founded in September 2014 to collect, document and visualize evidence of crimes against humanity in North Korea to support the ongoing effort to hold perpetrators accountable, and to bring victims’ needs and rights to mainstream awareness. Additionally, TJWG works on capacity building projects for Korean civil society.

*Represented by Hubert Younghwan Lee and Sehyek Oh

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Hubert Younghwan Lee is the executive director and founder of the Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG), designing projects and overseeing the operation of the organization. Lee has over ten years of first-hand research and advocacy experience on North Korean human rights issues, and has been engaged in training human rights activists in South Korea.

Sehyek Oh is lead researcher at the Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG). He left North Korea in 1999 and today interviews other defectors and victims of North Korean human rights abuses.

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