Yeonmi Park

Yeonmi Park (Korean: 박연미; born 4 October 1993) is a North Korean defector and activist whose family fled from North Korea to China in 2007 and settled in South Korea in 2009, before moving to the United States in 2014.^[2] Her family turned to black-market trading during the North Korean famine in the 1990s.^[3] Her father was sent to a labor camp for smuggling.^[4] They fled to China, where Park and her mother fell into the hands of human traffickers and she was sold into slavery before escaping to Mongolia.^[5] She is now an advocate for victims of human trafficking in China and works to promote human rights in North Korea and around the globe.

Yeonmi Park
Park in 2014
Born	(1993-10-04) 4 October 1993 (age 30) Hyesan, Ryanggang Province, North Korea
Citizenship	United States (naturalized)
Education	Columbia University (BA)
Occupations	Human rights activist author speaker
Spouse(s)	Ezekiel (m. 2017; div. 2020)
Children	1
Relatives	Eun-mi (sister)
Korean name
Hangul	박연미
Hanja	朴研美
Revised Romanization	Bak Yeon(-)mi
McCune–Reischauer	Pak Yŏnmi
YouTube information
Channel	Voice of North Korea by Yeonmi Park
Years active	2017 – present
Genre	Human rights activism
Subscribers	1.01 million[1]
Total views	99.7 million[1]
Last updated: 23 February 2023
Website	yeonmi.com
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