Ministry of Unification
Different terms, official and unofficial, refer to North Korean refugees. On 9 January 2005, the South Korean Ministry of Unification announced the use of "saeteomin" (, "people of new land") instead of "talbukja" (, "people who fled the North"), a term about which North Korean officials expressed displeasure. A newer term is "bukhanitaljumin" (), which has the more forceful meaning of "residents who renounced North Korea".