Eunhee Park
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Eunhee Park

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Eunhee Park is a North Korean defector, human rights advocate, public speaker, and author whose life story embodies resilience, freedom, and rebirth. From the age of ten, she spent five years in a North Korean orphanage, where starvation was rampant and those who didn’t die of hunger often died from eating the garbage they scavenged on the grounds of a nearby market, even chewing discarded gum as though it were dessert. Starved for freedom - the greatest hunger of all - at twenty-one, she faced death to escape the North, wading across the river into China with machine guns at her back. She traveled the entire length of that country before hiking across Laos into Thailand, only to be incarcerated in a prison camp. Facing sexual abuse, hunger, and the constant threat of deportation, she learned that freedom is never free. After reaching South Korea, Eunhee faced discrimination as an outsider but fought her way through university, later improving her English during a six-month working holiday in Australia. She went on to serve as a Project Manager at a nonprofit supporting North Korean defectors and youth from developing countries, helping them pursue economic independence, employment, and entrepreneurship. Today, Eunhee is an international public speaker whose powerful voice has reached global audiences through TEDx, the Asia Freedom Forum, the Oslo Freedom Forum, and lectures at international schools and universities worldwide. She continues her mission to awaken hearts and minds with her story of courage, human dignity, and the unbreakable desire for freedom. Alongside her advocacy, she teaches Korean—including both North and South Korean language—to students around the world, sharing the history, culture, and lived realities of the Korean Peninsula. Her work centers on one message: freedom matters, stories matter, and every human being deserves the chance to rewrite their future.
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    • The Courage to Die

    • A North Korean Woman’s Escape and Rebirth in Freedom
    • By: Eunhee Park
    • Narrated by: Kitty Jay
    • Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-2026
    • Language: English
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