Yeonmi Park

Yeonmi Park (Korean: 박연미; born 4 October 1993) is a North Korean defector and activist whose family fled from North Korea to China in 2007 and settled in South Korea in 2009, before moving to the United States in 2014.[2] Her family turned to black-market trading during the North Korean famine in the 1990s.[3] Her father was sent to a labor camp for smuggling.[4] They fled to China, where Park and her mother fell into the hands of human traffickers and she was sold into slavery before escaping to Mongolia.[5] She is now an advocate for victims of human trafficking in China and works to promote human rights in North Korea and around the globe.

Yeonmi Park
Yeonmi Park, 2014 (cropped).JPG
Park in 2014
Born (1993-10-04) 4 October 1993 (age 30)
CitizenshipUnited States (naturalized)
EducationColumbia University (BA)
Occupation
Spouse(s)
Ezekiel
(m. 2017; div. 2020)
Children1
RelativesEun-mi (sister)
Korean name
Hangul박연미
Hanja朴研美
Revised Romanization<span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">Bak Yeon(-)mi
McCune–Reischauer<span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">Pak Yŏnmi
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2017 – present
GenreHuman rights activism
Subscribers1.01 million[1]
Total views99.7 million[1]

Updated: 23 February 2023
Websiteyeonmi.com
Signature
Park Yeon-mi signature.png

Yeonmi Park Media

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "About Voice of North Korea by Yeonmi Park". YouTube.
  2. Schlott, Rikki (11 February 2023). "North Korea defector Yeonmi Park slams woke US ideology".
  3. Phillips, Tom (10 October 2014). Escape from North Korea: 'How I escaped horrors of life under Kim Jong-il'. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11138496/Escape-from-North-Korea-How-I-escaped-horrors-of-life-under-Kim-Jong-il.html. Retrieved 18 September 2015. 
  4. Park, Yeonmi; Maryanne Vollers (2015). "Seven: The Darkest Nights". In Order to Live : A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom (1st ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 76. ISBN 978-1-59420-679-5. OCLC 921419691. he was moved to Camp 11, the Chungsan "reeducation" labor camp northwest of Pyongyang.
  5. ""Kim Jong Un doesn't like me at all," says 21-year-old defector from North Korea". Archived from the original on 26 December 2017. Retrieved 18 September 2015.