[해외자료] North Korea Survey Reveals Three Core Trends

...in the isolated state changed dramatically on the heels of a massive famine that struck in the mid-1990s. An unprecedented rise in marketization followed, as common North Korean citizens could no longer rely upon the state to support their livelihoods. This marketization created opportunities for North Koreans to experiment with new forms of communication and freedom, but subsequently precipitated crackdowns...

[학술논문] Measuring North Korean Marketization: An Index Approach

...virtually collapsed in the 1990s, growth of marketization has become the most prominent feature of the North Korean economy. In this article, we evaluate the development of de facto and de jure marketization of the 2000s in three dimensions of price liberalization, privatization, and financial system development. Accordingly, we construct a marketization index using the survey results of North Korean...

[학술논문] 김정은 시기 북한의 경제발전 전략과 B2B 플랫폼을 매개로 한 남북경협 구상

This study asserts that North Korea's economic development strategy in the Kim Jong-un era has the following three core elements. First, economic development led by science and technology. Second, economic development by attracting foreign capital. Third, economic development based on the active use of the market. In the case of the first two strategies, namely, the strategy through science and

[현안분석] North Korean Economy in the Kim Jong-un Regime

.../ The structure of this paper is as follows: Chapter 2 outlines the economic performance for the past five years under the Kim Jong-un regime; Chapter 3, 4, and 5 (state-run economy, marketization, external economy, respectively) review North Korea’s economic policy, identify the characteristics of North Korean economy, and analyze certain elements that had enabled such modest economic...

[현안분석] Eight Changes in North Korean Economy and Society under the Kim Jong Un Regime

...are mostly reserved to the ruling class in large cities including Pyeongyang. According to the relatively new viewpoint, the North Korean economy is currently on the path of rapid marketization, and the society is changing fairly quickly. This positive image of the DPRK is backed by foreign visitors’ testimonies on the economic development; new high-rise apartment buildings; over...

[학위논문] 북한 토지이용권 연구 : 중국·북한 비교분석

...However, the basic principle of China, a socialist country for land ownership, is that the entire land is owned by the state (or collective). This characteristic is still applied to the period of marketization reform. The legal owner of China's urban land is the state. In reality, the State Council is a landowner who actually represents the state. In the case of each region, local governments take...