Jungeun Park is a senior at Yonsei University, double majoring in Sociology and Political Science.

From the experience of Peace Public Diplomacy Corporation in the Korea Democracy Foundation, she has developed her interest in a human rights issue in North Korea. In the program, she organized a menstruation fair for North Korean women and heard about the situation of women’s health in North Korea with cooperation with and sponsored by Dalchaebi, a startup company for menstruation platforms. From this experience, she wrote a report named “Marriage and Life of North Korean Women Defectors through immigration from North Korea and China to South Korea” with three fellow students in the class including an in-depth interview of North Korean defector women working as a unification education speaker.  Also, she participated in Korean Global Forum for Peace and DMZ Forum held by the Ministry of Unification in South Korea as a rapporteur and learned human rights situation in North Korea and how to harmonize between South and North Korean citizens.

From these experiences, she wanted to become a diplomat in South Korea specializing in North Korean diplomacy. She hopes to contribute to peace on the Korean Peninsula by contemplating ways to realize the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and improvement of the human rights situation in North Korea.

After finishing two quarters exchange program at UCLA, she wanted to elaborate her knowledge about North Korean human rights issues from the perspective of the United States and started her internship in HRNK. She expects to learn from human rights issues in North Korea to inter-Korea relationships and diplomacy for denuclearization in North Korea through the internship.