This research aims to explore a North Korean woman’s settlement process in South Korea through Rosenthal’s autobiographical–narrative method. The oral life story was displayed and reconstructed from the life story as experienced based on narrative–biographical interview: the protagonist left North Korea leaving behind her husband and child as a survival strategy, she had been suffered poverty and severe domestic violence against her remarried husband after entering South Korea. However, the protagonist became an active agent as she had the opportunity to live an artist–singer, a path she had brought up. She also found her dream to become an educator and made a transformation from her life in the marginality to the creative core with an intense motivation to overcome. During this period, north Korean faith community incubated and helped her settle in the region. The protagonist started living in the two worlds of the South and the North, and in both worlds, and now beyond the two worlds in terms of theological perspective ‘marginality’. Some implications from this reconstructing biography were addressed the role of christian community and christian counselors for adapting process of North Korean defectors.