List of Famous people born in Ryanggang Province, North Korea

Park Yeon-mi

First Name Park
Last Name Yeon-mi
Born on October 4, 1993 (age 30)

Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector and activist whose family fled from North Korea to China in 2007 and settled in South Korea in 2009, before moving to the United States in 2014. Her family turned to black-market trading during North Korea's economic collapse in the 1990s. Her father was sent to a labor camp for smuggling. They fled to China, where Park and her mother fell into the hands of human traffickers and she was sold into slavery before escaping to Mongolia. She is now an advocate for victims of human trafficking in China and works to promote human rights in North Korea and around the globe.

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Lee Hyeon-seo

First Name Lee
Last Name Hyeon-seo
Born on January 1, 1980 (age 44)

Lee Hyeon-seo, best known for her book, The Girl with Seven Names, is a North Korean defector and activist who lives in Seoul, South Korea, where she is a student. She escaped from North Korea and later guided her family out of North Korea through China and Laos.

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Basil Cho Kyu-man

First Name Basil
Last Name Kyu-man
Born on June 8, 1955 (age 68)
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