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Lee Hyeon-seo (Korean: 이현서, born January 1980), [1] best known for her book, The Girl with Seven Names, is a North Korean defector and activist who lives in Seoul, South Korea, [2] where she is a student. She escaped from North Korea and later guided her family out of North Korea through China and Laos. [3]
Park left North Korea in 2007, when she was 13. [18] According to her account published in The Telegraph in 2014, after her father "bribe[d] his way out of jail", the family began to plan their escape to China, but Park's older sister Eunmi left for China early without notifying them. [20]
Greenlight to Freedom: A North Korean Daughter's Search for Her Mother and Herself, a memoir by North Korean defector Songmi Han and Casey Lartigue Jr. I Escaped North Korea! – by Ellie Crowe and Scott Peters – 2019 middle-grade story of a North Korean orphan fleeing through China; In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom ...
This is the story of Sookan's life under the Japanese and Russian Occupation, and her harrowing escape from North Korea to South Korea in search of freedom. The book won numerous awards including Best Books for Young Adults, ALA Notable Book and Judy Lopez Book Award by the National Women's Book Association. It has been translated into several ...
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of notable defectors from North Korea to South Korea. In total, as of 2016, 31,093 North Korean defectors had entered South Korea. By 2020 the number had grown to about 33,000. The dates shown below are the dates that the ...
Watkins's book takes place in the last days of 35 years of Korea's annexation by Japan. An eleven-year-old Japanese girl, Yoko Kawashima, whose father works for the Japanese government, must leave her home in Nanam, part of northern Korea, as her family escapes south to Seoul, then to Busan, to return to Japan.
A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea (French: Corée du Nord: 9 ans pour fuir l'enfer, Korean: 열한 살의 유서) is a 2012 memoir by Eunsun Kim, with Sébastien Falletti. It was translated into English by David Tian in 2015.
Jin Gyeong-suk (Korean: 진경숙; 24 June 1980 – Dec 31, 2004), also known as Jin Kyung-sook, was a North Korean woman who, after successfully defecting to South Korea in 2002, was arrested in China two years later for conducting espionage and forcefully deported back to North Korea, where she was tortured and murdered.