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Hyeonseo Lee

Researcher

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Hyeonseo Lee is a researcher.

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Profession: Researcher

About Hyeonseo Lee

[Wikidata] researcher ORCID 0000-0002-9558-8411... | [Wikipedia] Lee Hyeon-seo, best known for her book, The Girl with Seven Names, is a North Korean defector and activist who lives in Seoul, South Korea. She escaped from North Korea and later guided her family out of North Korea through China and Laos.

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“I was already hiding beneath so many lies that I hardly knew who I was any more. I was becoming a non-person.”

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“After years in the Chinese workforce, I had developed an emotional attachment to money. My earnings were my hard work and long…

Long hours

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“..."we can do without almost anything – our home, even our country. But we will never do without other people, and we…

Family

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“People in the hostile class, which made up about 40 per cent of the population, learned not to dream.”

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“My closest friend at this time was my tiny pet dog – it was one of the cute little breeds that people…

Friendship

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