Book · recommended on 2 episodes
In Order to Live
Yeonmi Park ISBN 014310974X
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Yeonmi Park ISBN 014310974X
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This book by Yeonmi Park has come up 2 times on Lex Fridman. The people who brought it up: Lex Fridman, guest. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Human rights activist Park, who fled North Korea with her mother in 2007 at age 13 and eventually made it to South Korea two years later after a harrowing ordeal, recognized that in order to be "completely free," she had to confront the truth of her past. It is an ugly, shameful story of being sold with her mother into slave marriages by Chinese brokers, and although she at first tried to hide the painful details when blending into South Korean society, she realized how her survival story could inspire others.
“a north korean defector human rights activist and author of the book in order to live”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Yeonmi Park: North Korean defector, human rights activist, and author of the memoir 'In Order to Live.' She escaped North Korea at 13 through China and became a prominent advocate exposing the regime's atrocities. North Korean defector Yeonmi Park recounts escaping a closed dictatorship and reflects on freedom, suffering, love, and the systems that shape human lives.
“we tell ourselves stories in order to live and that's how i came within my title of the book in order to live”— guest
The guest here is Yeonmi Park: North Korean defector, human rights activist, and author of the memoir 'In Order to Live.' She escaped North Korea at 13 through China and became a prominent advocate exposing the regime's atrocities. North Korean defector Yeonmi Park recounts escaping a closed dictatorship and reflects on freedom, suffering, love, and the systems that shape human lives.
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