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Lee Hyeon-seo (Korean: 이현서, born January 1980), best known for her book, The Girl with Seven Names, is a North Korean defector and activist who lives in Seoul, South Korea, where she is a student. She escaped from North Korea and later guided her family out of North Korea through China and Laos.
As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee thought her country was "the best on the planet." It wasn't until the famine of the 90s that she began to wonder. She escaped the country at 14, to begin a life in hiding, as a refugee in China.
May 20, 2013 · A total stranger helped Hyeonseo Lee pay her mother and brother’s way out of jail as they fled from North Korea. Now, four years later, Lee has been reunited with that stranger, getting the chance to thank him in person.
TED Speaker. Personal profile. As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee thought her country was the "best on the planet." It wasn't until the famine of the 90s that she began to wonder. She escaped the country at 17-years-old to begin a life in hiding as a refugee in China.
Jul 14, 2015 · Hyeonseo Lee: Escape, exile and why she misses North Korea. A high-profile North Korean defector’s surprising revelations about life in the Hermit Kingdom. Zoe McKnight. Lee Hyeon-seo, 33,...
Jun 16, 2015 · Hyeonseo Lee escaped from North Korea--home to one of the most repressive governments in the world--when she was just 17. Then she risked her life to get her family out.
Feb 10, 2017 · Now 36, she escaped on foot across the frozen Yalu river into China from her home in North Korea at the age of 17. For the next decade, she survived abusive Chinese pimps, gangsters,...
Mar 31, 2016 · Hyeonseo Lee, who lived in a North Korean town near the border with China, often wondered why there were so many more lights on the Chinese side. One winter night in 1997, when she was 17, she...
Oct 14, 2014 · Hyeonseo Lee’s memoir is her courageous and emotional story of growing up in the reclusive dictatorship of North Korea, how she became a defector, the struggles of surviving in a world hostile to North Koreans, and how she finally reconciled her new life with her heritage.
May 10, 2016 · As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions trapped by a secretive and brutal communist regime.
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