“I do want to go home. That's my dream. North Korea is still my home.” — Park Yeon-mi Quote

I do want to go home. That's my dream. North Korea is still my home.

I had to look for food all the time. I had to catch dragonflies, grasshoppers, and that was the only source of protein for me.

North Korea was pretty insane. Like the first thing my mom taught me was don't even whisper, the birds and mice could hear me. She told me the most dangerous thing that I had in my body was my tongue.

South Koreans often don't think of North Korean defectors as Korean. While we have been granted citizenship, the locals don't consider us as South Korean citizens. We are often treated differently and viewed differently, even by people who care for us the most.

I am reasonably happy. I didn't find Jesus or anything like that. Part of it is that I just feel that I could go home. I did not feel like that for a long time, but I could go back now.

It's nice when I have days off to go home and relax and literally take the weight off my shoulders and enjoy the simple things.

I'm a private person, so what I want to do is do the work that interests me and then go home.

If I worked as a waiter, I'd go home and write songs and record them. I'd have to. It's the only thing I know how to do. It's the only thing I can do.

I go home, and I come into work every day.