Yeonmi Park: What I learned about freedom after escaping North Korea
Yeonmi Park: Mit tanultam a szabadságról, miután megszöktem Észak-Koreából?
North Korean defector Yeonmi Park is becoming a leading voice of oppressed people around the world. Full bio
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in the northern part of North Korea,
Észak-Korea északi részén,
rice and later copper
és később rezet árult,
decided to escape.
a szökésről döntöttünk.
what the word "escape" means
the concept of escape,
a szökés fogalmát,
from China at night,
ahogy térképünk sem.
about what was going to happen.
building caught fire.
what it feels like to live there.
your life on Mars right now.
a Marson elképzelni.
has only one meaning:
csak egyetlen jelentése van:
of romantic love in North Korea.
nem létezik Észak-Koreában.
understand the concept,
that concept is even a possibility.
a lehetőséget, amit a fogalom jelent.
is an almighty god
a mindenható jóság,
he was actually a dictator,
hogy valójában diktátor,
looking at a picture of him,
that he was fat.
tanítsanak rá, hogy kövér.
critical thinking,
a kritikus gondolkodást,
what you're told to see.
mondják neki, hogy látnia kell.
inside North Korea?
for 70 years of this oppression?"
a 70 éves elnyomás ellenére sem?"
you're isolated or oppressed,
vagy el van nyomva,
definition of isolation,
valódi leírása,
in the center of the universe.
a világ közepében élek,
what is right and wrong,
mi a jó és a rossz,
justice and injustice,
és igazságtalanság közt,
on the street right now,
and dead on the streets.
the concept of compassion.
az együttérzés fogalmát.
empathy and sympathy in my heart
az együttérzés, beleélés és részvét,
"compassion" and the concept,
az együttérzés szót és fogalmat;
as a free person.
our President Trump,
is not important enough
nem elég fontosak ahhoz,
for executing his uncle,
diktátor dicséretben részesül.
something new about freedom now.
újat kéne tanulnunk a szabadságról.
de ez a helyzet.
George Orwell's "1984."
George Orwell 1984-e vált.
emberi jogaiért,
right now who don't have a voice,
when we are not free?
ha nem leszünk szabadok?
that we care about climate change,
hogy törődünk a klímaváltozással,
a nemek közti egyenlőséggel
about animals' rights,
how beautiful our heart is,
who cannot speak for themselves.
akik magukért képtelenek szót emelni.
cannot speak for themselves.
szót emelni magukért.
in the 21st century.
on earth right now.
to my fellow North Koreans
észak-koreai honfitársaimnak.
that an alternative life is possible.
every reason to be hopeful.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Yeonmi Park - Human rights activistNorth Korean defector Yeonmi Park is becoming a leading voice of oppressed people around the world.
Why you should listen
Yeonmi Park's escape from North Korea has given the world a window into the lives of its people. At the 2014 Oslo Freedom Forum and the One Young World Summit in Dublin, Park became an international phenomenon, delivering passionate and deeply personal speeches about the brutality of the North Korean regime. Her address to One Young World on the horrors of detention camps, political executions and sex trafficking has been viewed over 320 million times on YouTube. The BBC named her one of their "Top Global Women."
In 2017, Park joined the Tory Burch Foundation's Embrace Ambition campaign, a global effort to dispel the double standard of ambition as a positive trait in men and a negative trait in women. Her searing memoir, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom, was released in the fall 2015, and now she's urging the world to recognize the oppressed people of Kim Jong-Un's reign. She believes that change will come through young people like herself, whose exposure to capitalism and Western media is eroding the authority of the Kim dynasty.
Currently a student at Columbia University, Park has published an op-ed about North Korea's "black market generation” in the Washington Post and has been featured on CNN, CNBC and the BBC, as well as in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. She serves on the executive board of directors of the Human Rights Foundation, the world's preeminent organization devoted to disrupting dictatorships.
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