FMI Speaker Series at ASU - Yeonmi Park

1910 Rosemont Dr.,San Angelo TX 76901

27 April, 2021

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Human Rights Activist Yeonmi Park presents 'In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom.' Free Market Institute Speaker Series – April 27 In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to FreedomSome must risk everything for the fundamentals of freedom, dignity, and justice. The Free Market Institute (FMI) at Angelo State University (ASU) welcomes Yeonmi Park, North Korean defector and human rights activist, to deliver a lecture on Tuesday, April 27, 2021, from 5:30 - 6:30 PM, in the CJ Davidson Conference Center (Houston Harte University Center) on the Angelo State University campus. This event is free and open to Angelo State University students, faculty, and staff only. *Advance registration, daily wellness screening, social distancing regulations, and face masks will be required for in person attendance.* About the ProgramEverything must be taught, even the fundamentals we sometimes take for granted: freedom, compassion, love. For Yeonmi Park, growing up in North Korea, right vs. wrong, justice vs. injustice—these weren't concepts inherently understood or taught. Telling her electrifying story of escape from North Korea, Park explains that the life she left there was "a totally different planet." There's only one definition of love in North Korea—"love for the Dear Leader." Romantic love doesn't exist as a concept or possibility. And for most North Koreans, neither does freedom. Now a US citizen, Park calls for us to fight for North Koreans—for all oppressed people around the world—who cannot speak for themselves. Freedom is fragile, she says. Who will fight for us when we're not free? Join the Free Market Institute for this event, as Yeonmi Park as she recounts the incredible story told in her searing memoir, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom (September 2016). Can't make it to this event in person? Watch the Texas Tech University event live on Monday, April 26, 2021, at 5:30 PM (CDT), at the link below: EVENT LIVESTREAMFor more information about this event, visit www.events.fmi.ttu.edu or contact the Free Market Institute at [email protected] or 806.742.7138.