Hyeonseo Lee came to prominence after she gave a TEDTalk in 2013. Hyeonseo Lee is not her given name, it is actually the seventh name she has had and is a name she gave herself because it means sunshine and good fortune. Lee’s mother left her biological father when she was an infant to marry the man she had originally wanted to marry, the man Hyeonseo grew up believing was her father, which is where her first name change occurred. The rest came after she defected as […]