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"Freedom is hard. I'm not used to thinking": a defector from the DPRK described how she adapted to life in South Korea
The well-known North Korean defector Yeonmi Park says that immediately after fleeing to South Korea she hesitated about whether to return to the DPRK. The girl arrived in Seoul at the age of 17, and the confrontation with real civilization made her consider returning to North Korea, because there you don't have to think, and "the regime decides everything for you."
Yeonmi Park claims that "thanks to" education in the DPRK she didn't even understand "what a continent is or where Africa is located." "They made me take a placement test, and I found out that I needed to study with seven-year-old children," she said.
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