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Hyeonseo Lee: Meine Flucht aus Nordkorea
Filmed Feb 2013 • Posted Mar 2013 • TED2013
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Aufgewachsen in Nordkorea, dachte Hyeonseo Lee, ihr Land sei "das beste der Welt". Erst mit der Hungersnot der 90er begann sie zu zweifeln. Sie flüchtete mit 14 Jahren und tauchte unter als Flüchtling in China. Es ist eine erschütternde und persönliche Geschichte vom Überleben und der Hoffnung – eine beeindruckende Erinnerung all jener, die in ständiger Gefahr leben, auch wenn die Grenze schon lange hinter ihnen liegt.
Born in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee left for China in 1997. Now living in South Korea, she has become an activist for fellow refugees. Full bio »
Translated into German by David Schrögendorfer
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Speakers Hyeonseo Lee: Activist
Born in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee left for China in 1997. Now living in South Korea, she has become an activist for fellow refugees.
Why you should listen to her:
Hyeonseo Lee grew up in North Korea but escaped to China in 1997. In 2008, after more than 10 years there, she came to Seoul, South Korea, where she struggled to adjust to life in the bustling city. North Korean defectors often have a hard time in South Korea, she noted in the Wall Street Journal: "We defectors have to start from scratch. Prejudice against North Koreans and icy stares were other obstacles that were hard to cope with."
Now a student at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, she has become an advocate for fellow refugees, even helping close relatives leave North Korea after they were targeted. Her dream? As she told the Korea Times, she'd like to work at the UN or an NGO that advocates for the human rights of North Koreans, including their right to be treated as political refugees.
"A brave & beautiful voice; a story which needs light and air."
Tanya Michele on TED.com
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North Korean defector Hyeonseo Lee reunited with the man who saved her family
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TED speaker Hyeonseo Lee (right) meets Dick Stolp (left), the kind stranger who gave her a wad of cash to help get her family out of jail four years ago. Photo: SBS
A total stranger helped Hyeonseo Lee pay her mother and brother’s way out of jail as they fled from North Korea. Now, four years later, Lee has been reunited with that stranger, getting the chance to thank him in person.
Hyeonseo Lee: My escape from North Korea
In Lee’s TED2013 talk, “My escape from North Korea,” she describes defecting from North Korea in the late ’90s and how, after nearly ten years of living in hiding, she returned to help her family make their own escape. When her mother and brother were captured in Vientiane, Laos, and jailed for illegal border crossing, Lee describes how, out of money and desperate for a solution, she was approached by a foreigner. After hearing Lee’s story, this stranger withdrew a large sum of cash — £645 to be exact — from an ATM. With the money to use as a bribe, Lee’s family was able to escape.
When Lee asked the stranger why he was helping her, he replied, “I’m not helping you. I’m helping the North Korean people.” As Lee says in an emotional moment in her talk, “The kind stranger symbolized new hope for me and the North Korean people when we needed it most.”
Earlier this month Lee was invited to be a guest on the Australian broadcast show Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), where she had an unexpected visitor: Dick Stolp, the Australian backpacker who had helped her in Laos. Lee didn’t have any of his contact information – but Stolp had seen her TED Talk and SBS, catching wind of the story, orchestrated the surprise reunion.
“I was really happy … I can’t explain with words, but it was really amazing,” Hyeonseo told Sky News after the reunion. “He says, ‘I’m not a hero,’ but I say he is a modern hero.”
Stolp, for his part, was excited to see the girl he had helped years ago. “You help a small hand and it reaches to other hands and you think, ‘That’s great, that’s good stuff,’” he said. “I’m meeting someone who is now doing good things, and inside I can’t help but feel ‘Hey! I helped this lady to go out and change her life.’”
Read more about Lee and Stolp’s meeting
http://news.sky.com/story/1088232/north-korean-defector-reunited-with-saviouror
watch the SBS special on North Korea in full »
http://www.sbs.com.au/insight/episode/watchonline/538/North-Korea(North Korea, Tuesday, 7 May 2013, Watch Online, 52 minutes)
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