Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector, author, and American conservative activist, described as "one of the most famous North Korean defectors in the world." She fled from North Korea to China in 2007 at age 13 before moving to South Korea, then to the United States. Park made her media debut in 2011 on the show Now On My Way to Meet You, where she was dubbed "Paris Hilton" due to her stories of her family's wealthy lifestyle. She came to wider global attention after her speech at the 2014 One Young World Summit in Dublin, Ireland.

Park's memoir, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom, was published in 2015 and has sold over 100,000 copies. During the 2020s, she became a conservative political commentator in the American media through speeches, podcasts, and the 2023 publication of her second book, While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America.

The authenticity of her claims about life in North Korea has been the subject of widespread skepticism. Political commentators, journalists, and professors of Korean studies have criticized Park's accounts of life in North Korea for inconsistencies, contradictory claims, and exaggerations. Other North Korean defectors have expressed concern that the tendency for "celebrity defectors" to exaggerate about life in North Korea will produce skepticism about their stories. Park attributed the discrepancies to her imperfect memory and language skills, and her autobiography's coauthor, Maryanne Vollers, said Park was the victim of a North Korean smear campaign.

Park runs the YouTube channel "Voice of North Korea by Yeonmi Park," which has over one million subscribers. Her political views have been called "American conservative," and she has criticized the concepts of political correctness and "woke" culture in the U.S., drawing parallels between political correctness in the U.S. and North Korea.

She is an advocate for victims of human trafficking in China and works to promote human rights in North Korea and around the globe.