[해외자료] The Restructuring of North Korea’s Food Production and Distribution System

Under Kim Jong Un, North Korea has seen significant changes across the economy. While the state dominates the lives of its people, the economy has been increasingly marketized since the 1990s. Building on some of the tentative, furtive efforts of his father, Kim Jong Un allowed his economic advisers to develop a more market-oriented agenda for the country’s state industrial and agricultural sectors...

[해외자료] Quick Take: Chongjin’s Sunam Market Suffered Collapsed Roof Under Heavy Snow

Way before thelaunchof North Korea’s newest warship went spectacularly wrong at the Chongjin Port, the city suffered another calamity. In late January 2025, heavy snowfall in and around Chongjin caused major damage to the roof of the city’s main marketplace. The incident was...

[해외자료] Why and How Estimates of North Korean GDP by the Bank of Korea Are Deceptive

...gov/pubs/nsb20246/glossary"definedas “the market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period.” It measures the flow of money based on transactions in a market economy, where income and expenditure should be equal. In the case of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea), the Bank of Korea’s (BOK) estimates are the most widely...

[해외자료] North Korea’s Smartphone Market Expands as Border Restrictions End

The variety of smartphones available in North Korea has more than doubled in the last two years, and at least 10 companies are now fighting for the attention of consumers. Some companies have even started following the marketing strategies of overseas competitors by offering multiple versions at different price points, giving consumers more choice than ever before.

[해외자료] What’s Up with North Korea’s Skyrocketing Exchange Rates?

In recent months, foreign exchange rates in North Korea have surged in ways that intuitively make little sense. The Korean People’s won (KPW), the country’s domestic currency, nowtradesat 16,100 to the dollar in Pyongyang—the highest recorded rate since Daily NKbegan tracking...

[학위논문] 南北韓 統合過程의 葛藤管理에 관한 硏究

...emphasizing global trend and contribution to the stability of the region. Second, in elite areas, the North Korean system should be more open and adapt to the global trend of market economy and liberal democracy with the infusion of such values into the elite circle of the North. Vivid and diverse debate regarding to the ideological spectrum of the future society should be one of the social...

[학위논문] 開城工業地區를 活用한 韓國 貴金屬.寶石産業의 北韓進出 戰略에 관한 硏究

...to solve some tasks before investing in North Korea. First, the domestic market in Korea should be stable enough to enjoy the consistent investing in North Korea. Second, the relevant regulations, and SOC should be provided for investors to make easy investment. The Korean government should prepare the opportunity to extend the domestic market through improving the related law and regulations...

[학위논문] 統一 後 北韓 土地所有權에 관한 硏究

...researcher, I can define this sort of bonds as assets backed securities, what already enrolled in stock market in Korea. These bonds are to characterize in securitization or mobilization of 'sleeping security interest' of real estate. The conclusion of this thesis is that the land of North Korea is supposed to be in principle restituted and those exceptionally not be restituted is to be compensated...

[학위논문] 김정일 통치시기 가족 멜로드라마 연구 : 북한 근대성의 변화를 중심으로

...sustain for a long time among social combinations, which is bureaucracy, autonomy, market, family, moral coordination. A family is also an essential coordination under pragmatic socialism. North Korea enacted the Family Right Law for the first time at 1990. The last, a family is an agency to meet South and North Korea. Italy unified by means of culture, Catholic, while Resorgimento. That is a hint for...

[학술논문] 북한의 시장화 확산에 대응한 대북 산림복구 지원전략 연구

사회주의 계획경제 체제를 유지해오던 북한 내에 시장이 합법적인 공간으로 작동하면서 북한경제의 시장화 현상이 급격하게 확산되고 있다. 북한의 시장화 확산은 북한의 산림부문과 주민들의 산림소토지(뙈기밭) 이용에도 영향을 미치고 있다. 본 연구는 북한에서 발행하는 공식문헌과 북한의 시장화 확산에 관한 국내 관련 자료들을 검토하여 최근의 북한 경제체 제 변화와 시장화 확산 현상이 산림관리에 미치는 영향을 분석하고 이에 걸맞은 대북 산림복구 지원 전략을 제시하고자 하였다. 김정은 정권은 시장경제 운영 방식을 대폭 수용한 ‘우리식의 새로운 경제관리 방법’을 제시하면서, 개인에게 생산물 처분권을 보장하는 포전담당제를 도입하고 외부투자를 유치하기 위한 경제개발구를 설치하는 등 시장화 확산에 따른 정책과