“I didn't know people can be good. I didn't know people are designed to...” — Park Yeon-mi Quote

I didn't know people can be good. I didn't know people are designed to be good and help one another.

I mean I could not trust men again. I hated men. I hated humanity. How on earth can people sell each other?

I thought Kim Jong Il was a god who could read my mind. I thought his spirit never dies, and I never thought he was a normal human being.

I had to be very unrealistic about my situation. If I was so realistic I would never have made it this far. So, you just sometimes have to be hopeful for no reason.

There were stereotypes: you are from the communist country so you are not a hard worker. You talk awkwardly and speak with an accent and you don't have any high education like us so you are basically stupid. And I am shorter than South Koreans - I was malnourished when I was young. It made me believe I was a loser.

People want to express themselves - that's what fashion is for. You can go to Target and get something that Rodarte designed for $34, but would you want to go buy the higher version for $3,400? I think most people would say no.

TV and film are always slipping in political messages, not ones designed to bring us together but to divide us.

As life goes on, we accrue more and more loseable objects. Providence dictates that objects that are too large to lose, such as houses, always come with tiny little keys, specially designed to give you the slip.

I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I've designed it that way.