Yeonmi Park Biography

Is Yeonmi Park Married? Who's Her Husband?

Yeonmi Park's current status suggests that she is not currently in a relationship, and there is no indication of a boyfriend or husband in her life at the moment. She was blissfully married to her long-term partner Ezekiel on 4 January 2017. The couple lived together as husband and wife for four years until they called it quits. Park divorced her ex-husband Ezekiel in 2020, citing personal issues.

Even though Yeonmi has separated from her spouse Ezekiel, she has a lot of pictures of the two all over her Instagram wall. Though Ezekiel remained a fixture on the Instagram wall, Yeonmi has not opened up much about the split from her husband.

Park shares a son with his now estranged partner, Ezekiel. The North Korean defector gave birth to their only child, a son in 2018 in the United States. In the summer of 2020, amidst the George Floyd protests in Chicago, Yeonmi and her son were attacked by three African-American women when white bystanders helped her call the police.

In the aftermath of her divorce, Park has managed to keep her relationships well-guarded, with no publicized reports of any romantic involvements. The question of whether she intends to marry again or remain single in the future remains a matter of speculation, leaving her romantic prospects veiled in uncertainty.

How Much Is Yeonmi Park's Net Worth?

Yeonmi Park has summoned an estimated net worth of $2 million. She makes big chunks by giving life-motivational speeches. Yeonmi amasses an impressive amount from her primary career as a human rights activist.

Yeonmi Park wrote a book "In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom" in 2015. The book is available at Amazon at $14.99. Her other books are Para poder viver: A jornada de uma garota norte-oreana para a liberdade, Mut zur Freiheit" Meine Flucht aus Nordkorea, Escapar para vivir" El viaje de una joven norcoreana hacia la libertad, One Stop Idiom, and many others.

Yeonmi Park's Plastic Surgery

Yeonmi Park, a defector from North Korea, has been speaking out against human trafficking in her country. She had cosmetic plastic surgery, which consisted of jaw reshaping, a nose job, and cheek tucks.

Nonetheless, many individuals are still unknown about Yeonmi's surgery treatments. Some Aisuam cosmetic surgery watchers claim, that Park only had rhinoplasty but has possibly gotten eye surgery like many Koreans do.

Yeonmi Park's Activism and Critical Reception

After escaping, Park openly wrote and spoke about her life in North Korea for the Washington Post. She interviewed with The Guardian and the Australian public affairs show Dateline. Yeonmi volunteers for such activism programs as the Freedom Factory corporation, a free-market think tank in South Korea.

Furthermore, Yeonmi has become a member of Link, a U.S. nonprofit organization that rescues North Korean refugees hiding in China and resettles them in South Korea and the United States. Park, along with Joo Yank and Seongmin Lee, was involved in sessions and labs, educating participants on conditions in North Korea. Park teaches them how Link can support North Korean refugees.

Park has frequently been outspoken about tourism in North Korea because visitors are forced to bow to Kim Jong II and Kim II Sung statues, although they may not love and obey the leader. According to Park, speech criticizing the North Korean Supreme Leader has become a crime in South Korea.

Check out the clip of young Yoenmi Park speaking about her life at the One Young World Summit 2014!

Many North Korean defectors' accounts of North Korea contradict the claims Yeonmi has made. Moreover, she's been accused of exaggeration and tall tales by few. Park worked as a co-host for Casey Lartigue, a talk show host for North Korea Today's podcast show.

Together, Park and Lartigue presented five episodes of the podcast. Later, she explained her escape story at several well-known events, including Dublin's One Young World summit.

Yeonmi Park's Quick Facts

• Yeonmi Park only had a second-grade education when she arrived in South Korea in 2009. She gained a high school equivalency degree after eighteen months of studying.
• Later, she studied at Columbia University and cited her education as brainwashing lessons because of gender-neutral pronouns.
• Yeonmi Park was born in North Korea, and now she holds American citizenship.
• Park's father was caught for illegal trading in 2002 and was sentenced to hard labor at the Chungsan Reeducation camp in a show trial.
• Park's father's expulsion from the Korean worker's party and their loss of income led Park's sisters to quit school.
• Yeonmi Park suffered a chronic case of pellagra because of malnutrition. She had eaten dragonflies and cicadas.
• After escaping from North Korea, Park fled to her mother's hometown of Kowon, and Park was set to live with her aunt in the village of Songnam-RI.
• Park was only nine years old when her father was arrested for smuggling metals.
• Park's impactful speech in 2014, titled "Escaping from North Korea in Search of Freedom," captivated the world and quickly went viral after being shared by One Young World.
• She has half a million followers on her Instagram account.
• Most recently, the North Korean defector was the guest on the popular Joe Rogan podcast, the Joe Rogan Experience! 

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