Yeonmi Park: What I learned about freedom after escaping North Korea
Yeonmi Park: Kuzey Kore'den kaçtıktan sonra özgürlük hakkında ne öğrendim
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,
rice and later copper
sonrasında bakır satıyordu.
decided to escape.
kaçmaya karar verdik.
what the word "escape" means
şartlarında ne anlama geldiğini
ölüm anlamına geliyor.
the concept of escape,
from China at night,
ışıkları görebiliyordum
diye merak ettim.
veya haritalarımız yoktu.
about what was going to happen.
hiçbir şey bilmiyorduk.
building caught fire.
what it feels like to live there.
bir his olduğunu sorduğunda.
kelimeler tanımlayamaz
your life on Mars right now.
hayal edemediğiniz gibi.
has only one meaning:
tek bir anlamı var;
of romantic love in North Korea.
understand the concept,
that concept is even a possibility.
olduğunu anlamazsınız.
is an almighty god
düşünceleri bile okuyabilen
bile korkuyordum.
çalıştığı söylendi
he was actually a dictator,
bir diktatör olduğunu,
looking at a picture of him,
ilk defa fark ettiğimi hatırlıyorum.
olduğunu söyleyene kadar.
that he was fat.
olduğunu öğretmek zorundaydı.
critical thinking,
what you're told to see.
inside North Korea?
for 70 years of this oppression?"
bir devrim yok?''
you're isolated or oppressed,
olduğunu bilmiyorsan
definition of isolation,
bunu hiç bilmemek
izole edildiğimi ben hiç bilmedim.
in the center of the universe.
merkezinde olduğumu sanıyordum.
what is right and wrong,
doğru neyin yanlış olduğunu,
justice and injustice,
hak etmediğimizi bildiğini sanıyor.
on the street right now,
birisini görsem
and dead on the streets.
ve ölen insanlar gördüm.
the concept of compassion.
empathy and sympathy in my heart
ve kavramı öğrendikten sonra
"compassion" and the concept,
ve sempati hissettim
as a free person.
biri olarak yaşıyorum.
our President Trump,
is not important enough
önemli olmadığına karar verdi
for executing his uncle,
övülebileceği bir dünyada yaşıyoruz;
something new about freedom now.
ilgili yeni bir şey öğretilmeli.
"1984"ü hâline getirmek
George Orwell's "1984."
right now who don't have a voice,
when we are not free?
için kim savaşacak?
that we care about climate change,
about animals' rights,
how beautiful our heart is,
olduğu anlamına geliyor.
who cannot speak for themselves.
birini önemsiyoruz.
cannot speak for themselves.
kendileri için konuşamıyor.
in the 21st century.
on earth right now.
en karanlık yer orası.
to my fellow North Koreans
Kuzey Koreli dostlarıma
that an alternative life is possible.
mümkün olduğunu söylemek istiyorum.
sonsuza dek olmadığı.
every reason to be hopeful.
her türlü nedenimiz var.
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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