The Luckiest People of 2017
Wins and windfalls of all different varieties.
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Two months later, on the other side of the planet, 25-year-old Oh Cheong Seong made a lucky escape of a different sort. Oh is the son of a high-ranking North Korean military police official, who dreamed of a life beyond the border, featuring chocolate snacks, a law degree and, one presumes, no totalitarian regime. In November, he successfully crossed the demarcation line in the highly guarded Joint Security Area into South Korea. As he ran, he was chased by armed “comrades,” who shot him repeatedly.
When he woke up from surgery, the 25-year-old North Korea defector said he wanted to eat a choco pie http://bit.ly/2B102TB pic.twitter.com/XPJ48lZ804
Oh made it across and, thanks to the combined efforts of South Korean doctors and U.S. medics, survived and regained consciousness. He had a parasitic infection and hepatitis B, but is otherwise well on the path to recovery. There’s a strange, chocolatey twist to this story: A local radio show reported that Oh had told his medical team of a desire to eat Choco Pie, a South Korean snack, when he was able to eat solid food once again. For some time, Choco Pies were handed out to workers in North Korea, until the regime came to see the snack’s popularity as a threat, banned it outright, and replaced it with low-quality local imitations. When Choco Pie heard of Oh’s request, the company sent him 100 boxes of the snack, and promised him a supply of the treats for life. “We sent the Choco Pies as a welcoming present to Oh, who came to Korea after going through hardship. It was not an act for publicity,” an Orion spokesman told the Korea Herald.
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