Ms Park has gone from tragic and respected refugee, to fullout lunatic being caught in all kind of lies. I feel genuinely sad for her. Find the early interviews with her, without the plastic surgery (mentioning this because of timeline, not for judgement). You will see a different person.
The comments from people obviously never having been into a restricted country are hilarious. There are a few, most likely shadow approved, VPN providers that work. I refuse to believe they are just smarter than the GFW. I am convinced they are sanctioned and monitored. Which is fine if you never have any beef with the government. Which you never know you do until you do.
Stuff like socks5/shadowsocks and wireguard have long been useless. Imagine being in your house, and you want to go out, without anyone seeing you. No matter how well you try, just the attempt itself reveals you are trying - thus you are caught. Same for escaping GFW. A sanctioned VPN or RDP that stays alive without metering, is your best option.
Although purely anecdotal, I strongly agree with that point of view. Alcohol, drugs, and other kind of addictive things, for a great part turn into addictions with negative impact on people's lives, when they are a coping mechanism.
I have yet to meet an alcoholic or drug addict that has an otherwise perfectly normal life. I don't mean "highly functioning alcoholic", I'm talking about your stereotype addict. So far all of them have had one thing in common: their life was not headed in a direction they desired, and they couldn't see (an easy enough) way to get moving in that direction. After that, any substance or excuse or anxiety was "just" a coping mechanism.
Not sure if this makes sense, just needed to say this I guess.