[학술논문] From Scarcity to Style: Sartorial Hierarchy and Hybridity in Marketizing North Korea

...post-crisis period in the 2000s to evaluate the impact of transnational/ transsystemic cultural influence in a state socialist context. Based on interviews with North Korean refugees, we examine how the increasing desire for foreign consumer goods such as clothing, including those from capitalist countries, affected the practice of socialist identity. The testimonies revealed a particular sartorial hierarchy...

[학술논문] 시 · 청각적 피드백을 이용한 언어중재가 북한이탈주민의 자연스러운 발화에 미치는 효과

The number of North Korean refugees entering South Korea is continuously increasing. North Korean speakers show significant differences in vowel and consonant phonetics, length of vowels, and the rhythm and intonation of sentences. The object of this research was to examine the effectiveness of a speech intervention program for North Korean refugees using visual feedback through acoustical analysis...

[학술논문] 외국어로서의 북한어 ‘토-문법’ 교육 –남북한 문법 대조 중심으로-

...differences. While conducting a research on the refinement of the vocabulary area of North Korean language, and teaching at graduate school in Taiwan, the author has found that in recent years there is an increasing demand for competency in North Korean language as North Korea is gradually coming out. There are few studies doing a comparative study in grammar education between the North and the South as part...

[학술논문] Satellite-Based Flood Resilience Assessment in Data-Scarce Regions: Application to the Downstream Amnok, Taedong, and Tumen River Basins in North Korea

Flood hazards are intensifying under climate-driven hydro-meteorological extremes, increasing the need for quantitative assessment of regional flood resilience, especially in areas where ground observations and disaster statistics are unavailable. North Korea represents an example of such data-scarce and inaccessible regions, where repeated large floods along major river basins are reported but their...

[학술논문] 북한이탈주민의 화행 사용 양상 연구 －칭찬 화행을 중심으로－

...South and the North korea is the efficiency of the indirect speech acts. In addition, it is needed the preparation of the woman centered-korean educational program. As the rates of woman entrants is increasing rapidly, specializing in woman in education is the essential element for raising the achievement level. Particularly, from the view of the aspects in the usage of the speech acts through sexual difference...

[국내] Asian NATO Versus Pragmatic Multi-Alignment: Assessing Middle-Power Realignment Pathways in Trump 2.0

...fresh momentum with the advent of Donald Trump’s second presidency (hereafter Trump 2.0) and subsequent geopolitical developments in Europe and Asia. In the face of growing multifaceted threats and increasing Trumpian unpredictability amid intensifying U.S.-China rivalry, nearly all U.S. allies across the Indo-Pacific and Europe have been reassessing their reliance on Washington’s security guarantee,...

[해외] A New Look at North Korea’s Economic Redistribution During the COVID-19 Pandemic

...expanding agricultural production, and increasing activity in districts with nuclear and chemical facilities, while outlying districts saw comparatively smaller gains. This redistribution suggests that in the event of another global economic disruption, North Korea will likely follow a similar strategy, concentrating resources in Pyongyang and strategic sectors, increasing vulnerability among citizens in...

[국내] Testing Allies: The Greenland Crisis and Implications for South Korea

...responded with a calibrated approach, combining firm defense of sovereignty with efforts to avoid escalation. In this context, the Issue Brief identifies two key trends shaping U.S. alliances today: increasing expectations for allied contributions and a widening gap in perspectives between the United States and Europe regarding the future of the transatlantic relationship. These dynamics are not confined...

[국내] 중국의 정치경제 변화에 따른 북한경제의 진로와 남북경협의 방향

...cooperation. China has emerged as North Korea’s largest economic partner through increasingly active economic engagement in the context of shrinking inter-Korean economic relations. As North Korea’s economic dependence on China has surged over the years, China is expected to play an ever-increasing role in shaping the outlook for the North Korean economy and the Sino-North Korean economic relationship.

[국내] The Economic Impacts of a North Korean Collapse

...Korea to prepare for any sudden changes in North Korea. Recently, the significance of this notion has grown as health concerns of North Korea’s Supreme Leader and currency reform failures suggest an increasing likelihood that the country’s state organs are operating ineffectively. A North Korean collapse would generate a variety of shocks and changes among neighboring countries, including South Korea....