TO GO WITH Lifestyle-SKorea-NKorea-box-refugee,FEATURE by Nam You-Sun This photo taken on February 5, 2010 shows 19-year-old South Korean boxer Choi Hyun-Mi, the World Boxing Association (WBA) women's featherweight champion, posing next to the national flag before an interview with AFP in Seoul. Teenager Choi Hyun-Mi, struggling to make a new life in South Korea after fleeing North Korea with her parents, literally fought her way to the top. Choi, who switched from amateur to professional boxing to support her family, is now the World Boxing Association (WBA) women's featherweight champion -- still deeply in love with the sport she took up in Pyongyang at age 13. AFP PHOTO / JUNG YEON-JE (Photo credit should read JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)
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