Sejun Park and Eun Byul Kown, former DPRK refugees working for the North Korea Strategy Center, a Seoul-based NGO founded in 2007, speak to The Korea Society on the topic of information access for North Koreans and current efforts to share information with the DPRK citizenry on human rights and democracy.
with
Sejun Park
CEO of North Korea Strategy Center [U.S. Office]
Eun Byul Kown
Founder of LIBERTAS [Korea University]
$10 Members, $20 Guests
5:30 PM | Registration & Light Fare
6:00 PM | Discussion
If you have any questions, please contact Nikita Desai or (212) 759-7525, ext. 355.
About the Speakers
Sejun Park is the CEO of the U.S. office of North Korea Strategy Center (NKSC). Mr. Park was born in Hamheung, North Korea. He graduated from Pyongyang Medical College, Department of Dentistry in 1996 and was a dentist at the Hamheung National Dental Hospital for two years. In 1999, Mr. Park defected to China but was arrested in 2001 and sent back to North Korea. He was detained in Cheongjin prison camp (Nongpo jipgyulso) for six months and defected again successfully in 2002. Mr. Park arrived in South Korea that year and went on to graduate from Yonsei University with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration in 2006. He worked at E. Land Group, a South Korean corporation until 2010. Mr. Park is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree at the Yonsei University Graduate School of Public Administration in Political Science.
Eun Byul Kwon is from Kangwon Province, North Korea. After graduating from high school in North Korea, she served as an infantrywoman in the Korean People's Army between 2004 – 2009, then serving as a civilian in various military support divisions until 2010. Ms. Kwon defected to South Korea in 2010, and is currently in her senior year of studies at Korea University majoring in Public Administration. Ms. Kwon is the founder and first president of LIBERTAS, a North Korean human rights students group based at Korea University. In 2013 she spoke at Stanford, and completed a leadership program in Washington DC the same year. She was an intern at North Korea Strategy Center for six months, a contributor at NK News for 8 months, and has won numerous awards for her participation in North Korean human rights and unification-related initiatives. In 2015 Ms. Kwon was the student manager for CNS Language School in the Philippines.
