Lee Hyun-seo, My Seventh Name
Korean Title: 이현서, 나의 일곱 번째 이름
Author: Hyun-seo Lee
Publisher: Sillebooks
ISBN: 9791198281005
444 page /145 * 210 mm
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About This Book
Exposes the human rights situation in North Korea through interviews with CNN, UN North Korean human rights hearings, and other major media outlets around the world! The first TED speaker from North Korea, 40 million views on TED and YouTube!
Just to survive! The author, who was an ordinary girl, had to change her name seven times while crossing borders.
The author's dramatic story of changing her self and identity, crossing between life and death, and finding freedom in Korea! An
escape story more novel than a novel!
As a child, Hyunseo Lee was a girl ruled by the world's most brutal totalitarian dictator, but when she turned 17, she decided to escape to China because she thought that the best paradise on earth she had entered might not be North Korea. However, she never imagined that her decision would prevent her from seeing her family for 12 years. In the meantime, she changed her name seven times, met many benefactors, and held on to her tenuous will to live. North Korea, which has been insisting on a thoroughly closed society since the division of
society, has not changed ! The world has become more closely connected and open than ever before, but North Korea remains the only closed and isolated country on Earth, like a prison. To people in the free world, it is bizarre. North Korea continues to perilously continue the post-Joseon society day by day, enslaving ordinary people for the survival of Kim Jong-un and other communist party officials and some of the power elite, and maintaining the system. Indifference of Korean Society Why has Korean society ignored this story for nearly 10 years since its publication, when overseas readers have been paying attention to it? The country that is geographically the closest country, yet has the most extreme system, and the Korean people are increasingly psychologically distant amidst ambivalence between cultural homogeneity and ideological disparity! The story of North Korean defectors who must escape their hellish hometown amidst the lies, tricks, and political dynamics of politicians is still ongoing!
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