[학술논문] The Environment in the Box of Cold-War Developmentalism: North Korea’s 1970s Discourse on Pollution (konghae)

This paper examines the unfolding of North Korean discourse on “konghae (pollution)” in the context of the Cold War and developmentalism during the 1970s. Scrutinizing how the North Korean regime justified its own environmental management approach by critiquing the handling of the konghae issue in capitalist states, this study elucidates the impact of North Korea’s Cold War framing...

[학술논문] North Korean refugees born and raised under the socialist economy have faced challenges in adapting to the advanced consumer financial market in South Korea. We construct individual-level panel data o

...introduction of the term konghae into the North Korean vernacular and the subsequent proliferation of related discourse, which may have also been influenced by the growing global consciousness of environmental matters and the corresponding dialogue on potential solutions. While Cold War framing impeded North Korean acknowledgment of its own developing pollution problem, discourse on pollution expanded as it...