‘If you don’t know you’re a slave . . . how do you fight to be free?’ North Korean defector tells Vancouver audience GlobeBC
When Yeonmi Park walked past someone dying on the street in her hometown of Hyesan, North Korea, she didn’t try to help them. She didn’t feel bad, she said, because she didn’t feel anything at all.
If she walked past someone dying today, she would do anything to help them, she said, because she now understands what compassion is, along with other emotions, such as empathy and even love.
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