Hyeonseo Lee
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Hyeonseo Lee was born in 1980 in Hyesan, North Korea. She escaped to China in 1997. Later she moved to Seoul, South Korea. She graduated from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. She is an activist and speaks internationally on human rights and life in North Korea. In 2013 she gave a TED talk näytä lisää about her experiences which has been viewed over 3 million times. She is the author of The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Yleistieto
- Syntymäaika
- 1980-01
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- North Korea
- Asuinpaikat
- North Korea
South Korea
China
USA
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Kirja-arvosteluja
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- 1
- Jäseniä
- 970
- Suosituimmuussija
- #26,550
- Arvio (tähdet)
- 4.3
- Kirja-arvosteluja
- 56
- ISBN:t
- 28
- Kielet
- 9
This is a gripping powerful memoir by Hyeonseo Lee about her life in North Korea and her eventual escape to South Korea.
Lee was born in 1980 and grew up in Hyesan, North Korea, with her parents and brother Min-ho. Her family was relatively affluent by North Korean standards and her mother’s trading kept them from the starvation faced by many families in the 1990 famine which caused the deaths of 240,000 to 420,000 people. Lee describes conditions under the North Korean totalitarian dictatorship, with neighbours spying on each other and reporting any perceived disloyalty to the regime, which demanded an almost religious fervour and adherence to the Kim family personality cult. North Korean children were brought up to revere their leaders, Kim II Sung and his son King Jong II and believed they were living in the best country in the world. After the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the withdrawal of its support, North Korea spiralled into economic decline and famine. Its isolationist policies mean North Koreans live in total ignorance about life in the rest of the world, even South Korea. It is also widely thought to be the country with the worst human rights record in the world.
Hyeonseo crossed the border to China aged 17 and due to the political dangers was unable to return. After 10 years of living in China trying to pass as Chinese she eventually fled to South Korea and applied for asylum. She then embarked on a daring and fraught mission to rescue her mother and brother from North Korea through China and Laos.
I found this a very impacting story of great bravery and hardship. I appreciate the insight it gives both into the difficulties of life in North Korea, but also the difficulty adjusting to life outside of this regime, with the loss of simplicity and the familiar. The audio narration was excellent and I would highly recommend this book.… (lisätietoja)