# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lee-soon-ok
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:46:35.160Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lee-soon-ok"
name: "Lee Soon-ok"
slug: "lee-soon-ok"
description: "Lee Soon-ok is a North Korean defector and the author of Eyes of the Tailless Animals: Prison Memoirs of a North Korean Woman, her account of being falsely accused, tortured, and imprisoned under poor conditions for crimes against the state and her subsequent release from prison and defection from the country. Since leaving North Korea, she has resided in South Korea. Lee's testimony was challenged by the North Korean Defectors' Association in Seoul and by many former North Korea citizens."
tagline: "Activist, former political prisoner"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Korea"
  isoCode: "KR"
birthDate: "1947"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.28
  momentum:             2.801204819277108
  historical:           8.984597333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lee_Soon-ok"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%83"
    title: "لي سون-أوك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Soon-ok"
    title: "Lee Soon-ok"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Soon-ok"
    title: "Lee Soon-ok"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Soon-ok"
    title: "Lee Soon-ok"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Soon-ok"
    title: "Lee Soon-ok"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Soon-ok"
    title: "Lee Soon-ok"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8_%D0%A1%D1%83%D0%BD_%D0%9E%D0%BA"
    title: "Ли Сун Ок"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%96_%D0%A1%D1%83%D0%BD_%D0%9E%D0%BA"
    title: "Лі Сун Ок"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E9%A0%86%E7%8E%89"
    title: "李順玉"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q273909"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump