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”.

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 ...

Editor’s Note: Hyeonseo Lee was born in North Korea and left for China in 1997. She now lives in South Korea and is an activist for North Korea refugees. Lee spoke at the TED2013 conference in ...

Hyeonseo Lee’s work is a rare, fascinating glimpse into the daily life of growing up in North Korea, and the consequences that accompany defectors. Freedom, as it turns out, ...

Hyeonseo Lee escaped from North Korea--home to one of the most repressive governments in the world--when she was just 17. Then she risked her life to get her family out. You won't forget her story.

Hyeonseo Lee describes North Korean propaganda, explains living under the Kim regime, and raises awareness of the human rights abuses in her home country.

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.

Hyeonseo Lee: Escaping North Korea. Posted: July 29, 2024 | Last updated: July 29, 2024. North Korean defector speaks of what her life was like in North Korea before escaping and beyond.

Author Hyeonseo Lee. In the film, Hyeonseo Lee, the author, recounts a shocking fact of life in North Korea. The country is so poor that it lacks money for fertilizer to grow crops, ...

Editor’s Note: Hyeonseo Lee was born in North Korea and left for China in 1997. She now lives in South Korea and is an activist for North Korea refugees. Lee spoke at the TED2013 conference in ...

In her memoir, “The Girl With Seven Names,” Hyeonseo Lee, as she is called today, takes us on her gripping journey from the Ryanggang Province of North Korea where dustless portraits of the ...