Listening Comprehension: My Escape From North Korea

Instructions: Listen to the TED talk and answer the questions that follow.

Link: https://www.ted.com/talks/hyeonseo_lee_my_escape_from_north_korea?language=en#t-31973

Questions

1. What did the speaker learn in school in North Korea?
2. What did the speaker see when she was seven years old?
3. What did the speaker find shocking in the letter that her mother brought home?
4. What terrible experience can the speaker not erase from memory?
5. What was the impact of the famine in North Korea in the mid- 1990s?
6. How did many North Koreans cross into China?
7. What happened to many of these Koreans as they crossed?
8. After the speaker escaped to China, how long did it take her to see her family again?
9. How did the speaker manage to satisfy her Chinese interrogators?
10. What is life like for illegal North Korean immigrants in China?