Songmi Han

SONGMI HAN was born in Geum-ya gun, Bongsan-ri in the center of North Korea about 240 kilometers from the capital of Pyongyang. She escaped from North Korea in 2011, settling in South Korea later that year. She is now a college student studying social welfare at a university outside of Seoul, is a keynote speaker and Special Assistant at Freedom Speakers International, and happy to be living in freedom. She is co-author of "Greenlight to Freedom: A North Korean Daughter's Search for Her Mother and Herself," published in February 2022.