Underground Tech
Underground Tech (UT) is a half-year program for North Korean defector women to receive comprehensive training in leadership, academics, life skills, character formation, relationship development, and spirituality.
Through field trips, internships, classroom education, and one-on-one coaching and counseling, UT students experience inner healing as they are equipped to heal and lead others in the new North Korea.
UT students intern in the offices of Seoul USA, serving their fellow NK women defectors and being trained and coached by visiting women’s ministry leaders from around the world. They are given leadership and ministry opportunities normally denied to NK defector women as they learn about the God who takes the stone the builders have rejected and makes it the cornerstone—in this case, the cornerstone of new, God-centered leadership in the North Korean defector community and in North Korea itself.
Graduates of the UT program are eligible to enroll in the Underground University program.






