Yeonmi Park

From the bitter experiences of her youth, she has come to adulthood fighting for others in a number of human rights issues. She lost her father to a disease that could possibly have been treated had he not been unjustly imprisoned at the time he became ill. This link has more on her father and hardships: http://swellmarketinginc.com/.

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Her own mother was raped in front of her as they fled North Korea. Her sister was separated from the family for a long time and she was not sure if they would ever be reunited. The story: http://www.swellmarketing.co/

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From these experiences, she has drawn from a well of inner strength to address a number of human rights issues including wrongful imprisonment, totalitarian regime abuses, rape, sexual slavery and the difficulty in getting people in one nation to accept those of another. She http://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Orange-County-SEO-EI_IE935473.11,28.htm regularly speaks on these issues as well as others close to her heart on the radio, television and in her own podcast. Her podcast website: http://internetmarketingoc.wix.com/home.

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She works tirelessly to promote human rights through a variety of channels. One, is regularly using social media to share inspiration and good words. Check out her LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/orange-county-seo-company, Crunchbase https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/orange-county-seo and Surfline http://www.surfline.com/company/bios/.

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It must be remembered that the 21-year-old is still a college student; nevertheless, she has been able, in an incredibly short amount of time, to bring together people from around the world under the banner of protection of human rights. Here she is featured on BBC: http://www.swellmarketing.org/.

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She hosts her own podcast with Casey Lartigue and speaks regularly around the world at a wide range of venues http://www.meetup.com/orangecountyseo/. She also appears on television and radio shows to promote human rights discussions https://peoplefiles.wordpress.com/swell-marketing/. Her ideal is to create a dialogue between the people of South Korea and North Korea so that the North Korean refugees are better understood by their southern counterparts. She also hopes to help those who are fleeing totalitarian regimes across the world by bringing attention to their plight and inspiring others to donate their time, money and efforts to ending human rights oppression around the globe. See more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tyler-collins/.

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She was born in North Korea in 1993 in the city of Hyesan in Ryanggang in North Korea. Her father was a prominent businessman but was later arrested for allegedly trading forbidden items. Her father was sent to a prison camp and, while there, contracted colon cancer. Fearing that his time was short, Mr. Park arranged for his release and he and his family fled to China, where he believed they would be safe. Her father died during their journey to South Korea by way of Mongolia, buried in the hills in an unmarked grave. NK news has the story: https://www.youtube.com/user/1OrangeCountySEO.

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The Parks, mother and daughter, continued to Seoul where they were finally reunited with her older sister. Today, she continues her fight against oppression and human rights violations across the globe with her work as an activist and spokesperson. Her stated goal is to begin the dialogue she believes will be necessary between South Korea and the people of North Korea to work together for unification.

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Here are a few resources outlining her rise to fame: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGHmuD-0WMRy4U3eZi2Ncnw, and https://www.pinterest.com/swellmarketing/.

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Human rights activism was a natural outgrowth of her personal experiences. As a young girl growing up in North Korea, she had little thought that her government and her country were any different than other places. However, after seeing the movie Titanic, she says that she began to realize that things were not the same everywhere. Her site here has more https://www.facebook.com/Orange.County.SEO.Company.

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Witnesses her best friend's mother's execution for watching a pirated movie horrified her, and when her own father was arrested, she and her family began their escape from North Korea through China. Eventually, she and her mother made it to South Korea where she is now a political science major at a Seoul university https://twitter.com/orangeco_seo.

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Today, she speaks on multiple platforms, through radio, television and in person, about her experiences and advocates for human rights across the globe, including in her native North Korea, as well as hosting her own podcast aimed at North Korean defectors and their supporters. See her picture profile here: https://twitter.com/swellmarketing1.

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Growing up in North Korea, she had little exposure to any other cultures and did not realize that there were other nations that afforded their citizens much more in the way of human rights than her home country. The execution of her best friend's mother, which she witnessed at the age of 9, for simply watching a pirated DVD and sharing it with others, made her realize for the first time that the North Korean regime was wrong in treating its citizens the way it did. More on this story https://about.me/yeonmipark1993.

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Her father's arrest brought these issues home in a very personal way, and her family's subsequent flight from North Korea into China then finally to South Korea gave her many horrifying experiences that made her realize that human rights were extremely important. Her blog goes more in depth on how human rights became so important to her: http://yeonmipark.blogspot.com/

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Today, she divides her time between her college studies in political science and her activities in promoting human rights across the globe. Some other profiles to check out are https://www.crunchbase.com/user/309922, http://mashable.com/people/yeonmipark/, and http://www.yelp.com/user_details?userid=AVDM5iGUHnIE9z7_Rpwv_w.

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She is currently attending college in Seoul, South Korea at the Dongguk University. Her major is political science. While she has not stated what she plans to do with her degree, it is fairly clear from her activities on the world stage that she is deeply interested in protecting and promoting human rights. Her interest in these topics was actually seeded early in her life when she and her family defected from North Korea to China, eventually ending up in Seoul. More info: http://youngvoicesadvocates.com/advocate/yeonmi-park-2/.

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She and her mother were reunited with her sister; her father died on the journey. After suffering deprivation, physical assaults and paralyzing fear, the small family finally made it to South Korea where they were reunited with her sister. Since beginning college, she has been active in many efforts to promote human rights. Her speech at the One Young World conference in Dublin in the summer of 2014 catapulted her into the international spotlight. Read more http://yeonmipark-us.tumblr.com/ and http://yeonmipark.flavors.me/.

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Unfortunately, North Korea has tried to discredit her and other defectors: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/15/park-yeon-mi-north-korea-defector, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/yeon-mi-park-the-hopes-of-north-koreas-black-market-generation/2014/05/25/dcab911c-dc49-11e3-8009-71de85b9c527_story.html.

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While her story is fascinating, there is a good chance the world would never have known about the struggles and eventual triumph of this incredible young woman without her appearance in the summer of 2014 at the One Young World conference in Dublin. There, she bravely mounted the platform and spoke from the heart about her experiences escaping North Korea, traveling through China as a fugitive and eventually finding refuge in South Korea. See the speech here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei-gGvLWOZI

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Her speech garnered 2 million views on YouTube and ultimately resulted in her being named one of BBC's Top 100 Women for 2014. Today, she is a college student in Seoul, but also works in a number of ways to promote human rights, especially in the ending of sex slavery and abuses of females in many countries. Her tireless efforts have resulted in international attention to this young and idealistic 21-year-old and her dream of a unified world without violence and oppression. Stay up to date with the human rights activist by following her on twitter: https://twitter.com/yeonmiparknk, subscribing on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA4czCr4z8uPcS0_FHoKuqQ or add her on Google+: https://plus.google.com/116671866233661473539/posts.

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She witnessed many violations of human rights in North Korea and during her flight to South Korea by way of China. However, few stood out in her mind more than the regularity with which she saw young women and girls raped, tortured and sold into sex slavery. As a woman herself, she was continually horrified by the casualness she witnessed when young girls were sold for $200 into the sex slave trade in China.
Furthermore, her own mother was brutally assaulted in front of her during their flight to South Korea by the very man who was supposed to conduct them to safety. Threatening to report her and her mother, the man took advantage of the situation to rape Yeonmi's mother in front of her. This experience led her to have a deep and abiding sympathy for women and girls everywhere who are the victims of human trafficking and sexual abuse. This article has more: http://yeonmipark.weebly.com/blog/escape-from-north-korea-how-yeon-mi-park-made-it-to-freedom

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See more: https://about.me/yeonmipark1993

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She is a young woman who became a human rights activist after her family fled North Korea in 2007. Yeonmi and her parents endured incredible hardships, including an attempted escape through the mountains of Mongolia, before she and her mother reached South Korea, where she lives today. As an adult, she became concerned with the rights of those in North Korea and in other regimes throughout the world where human rights are routinely violated. Read more of her story: https://iamyeonmipark.wordpress.com

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She has become a global face for human rights activism, hosting her own podcast and appearing regularly on television and radio shows as well as giving speeches in person across the world. She is also one of the youngest recipients ever of the BBC's Top 100 Women award, which she was given in 2014 for her speech at the One Young Word Summit in Dublin, Ireland, in which she told her personal story and encouraged other young people to speak out for human rights. The article on the speech: http://yeonmipark.blogspot.com/2015/05/who-is-yeon-mi-park.html

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Her Website: http://www.yeonmi.net
Her Twitter: https://twitter.com/yeonmiparknk
Her Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialYeonmiPark
Her Blog: http://yeonmipark.weebly.com/

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She has her own website at http://www.yeonmi.net/. Here, you can read about her harrowing journey from North Korea to China and on to South Korea and the history of her family's flight to a free world. You can also browse podcast recordings at http://caseyandyeonmi.com/, the home of her podcast station and her collaborative effort with Casey Lartigue.

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You can also find information from articles located at http://youngvoicesadvocates.com/advocate/yeonmi-park-2/, http://www.nknews.org/2015/02/yeonmi-park-hits-back-at-north-korean-video/, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/15/park-yeon-mi-north-korea-defector, and http://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-29809557. At these websites, you can read more information about her work as an international human rights activist, her current speaking engagements and her stories of her own family's trauma.

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There are also many other sources for the subject of human rights across the globe. She hopes that her story will inspire others to become involved in the fight to end oppression and violations of basic human rights in countries around the globe, not just in North Korea.

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