Back Quote by Park Yeon-mi

When I was invited to return to the 2015 One Young World summit in Bangkok, I knew that I had to make it back.…

— Park Yeon-mi

I escaped a North Korean prison camp

— Shindong

I surrendered all my privacy to write this book. It was so hard and so painful. I went through so much crazy stuff. But…

— Park Yeon-mi

I am one of the lucky North Koreans who made it out of China. North Korean defectors in the country are terrified of trying…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

The situation they [journalists and Edward Snowden] were in was incredibly heightened. The stakes were high. There was a lot of pressure, a lot…

— Zachary Quinto

I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But…

— Anthony Bourdain

I defected to South Korea in search of freedom of speech and movement. I had longed to put my feet on this soil, even…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

I left Cambodia when I was 12 or 13. I didn't really escape, but I needed to go away.

— Rithy Panh

I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea.

— Joichi Ito

I only escaped from Tibet because I feared my people would resort to desperate violence if the Chinese took me as their prisoner.

— Dalai Lama

Being overseas at the time it all kind of happened was perfect because I had no idea that it was going to attract so…

— Cathy Freeman

In China, it was hard living as a young girl without my family. I had no idea what life was going to be like…

— Lee Hyeon-seo