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.

Lee Hyeon-seo (Korean: 이현서, born January 1980) [1] is a North Korean defector and activist. She is known for her book, The Girl with Seven Names. Lee lives in Seoul, South Korea. [2] She is a student. She escaped North Korea and later helped her …

Aug 24, 2016 · I met North Korean defector Hyeonseo Lee in Norway at the Oslo Freedom Forum in 2016. The forum brings together activists and dissidents from the far corners of the earth to tell their stories ...

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.

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 10, 2016 · As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions trapped by a secretive and brutal communist regime. Her home on the border with China gave her some exposure to the world beyond the confines of the Hermit Kingdom and, as the famine of the 1990s struck, she began to wonder, question and to realise that she had been ...

Jul 14, 2015 · Lee Hyeon-seo, 33, who came to South Korea in 2008, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Seoul, May 29, 2013. From the streets of Seoul to the European parliament a new generation of North...

Jul 2, 2015 · As a schoolgirl in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was forced to watch executions, denounce her friends for fabricated transgressions and dig tunnels in case of a nuclear attack.

Mar 3, 2016 · AS A 17-year-old, Hyeonseo Lee’s childhood home in North Korea overlooked the border with China and this is one of the reasons she started questioning whether she really had “nothing to envy”.

May 2, 2018 · Hyeonseo Lee left North Korea when she was 17. Now 38, she calls the recent meeting between Kim Jong Un and President Moon Jae-in "stunning," and says her greatest hope is reunification.