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The Eric Metaxas Show

Yeonmi Park - Part 2 ( Encore Continued)

The Eric Metaxas Show

Metaxas Media

Religion & Spirituality

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Yeonmi Park continues sharing stories about her life surviving in North Korea and China and how she, her sister, and her mother all escaped, settling into an America undergoing transformation.

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0:00.0

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0:04.1

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0:21.9

Welcome to the Eric Metaxas Show. They say it's a thin line between love and hate,

0:27.7

but we're working every day to thicken that line, or at least to make it a double or triple line.

0:33.2

But now here's your line jumping host, Eric Metaxas.

0:40.9

Folks, welcome back talking to Yomii Park about her story as told in the book in order to live,

0:48.0

her new book, which we'll get to eventually is Wild Time Remains. Very important. But first,

0:53.1

we have to get the story. So the story is your 13, you and your sister are somehow vaguely

1:00.9

having this idea that if we go to China, if we escape somehow, we can get food. It's that simple.

1:08.1

But before this, you have your stricken ill and your father, who by now is a different man,

1:15.2

a broken man, but he's home and your mother, they carry you to a hospital.

1:19.5

I don't remember, I kind of fainted almost. So I remember being the hospital bed and they said,

1:26.8

I need a surgery that day. So that's what I remember from that day. And then doctors will refuse to

1:34.8

operate on me and my mom had to bribe the doctor and she didn't have the money.

1:39.6

Okay, so this is basic. That if you can't pay, they will let you die. And so your mother finds a

1:47.6

way to bribe them to operate on you. But they misdiagnose you. Yeah. So that's the thing,

1:55.2

it's like a universal free healthcare. It's not after all very free because doctors charge you

2:01.2

for bribery and they demand you to bring all the medicine and needless everything from the patient.

2:08.4

So they expect the patients to bring those things to pay for those things? Yeah, the gods,

2:14.3

everything's patient responsibility. And she begged one of the neighbors to lend their money

2:22.2

without money. She bought things from the black market. And anesthesia, of course, is a fake,

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