[학술논문] 1945~1950년 북한의 사회주의적 노동관과 직업동맹의 노동통제

...workers and peasants joined and the production-relation, most means of production came into people s government s possession. For these reasons, the trade union(chikopdongmaeng)performed more like an executive organization spreading socialist perspective than traditional role as a trade union. The trade union developed not only the production increase campaign but also the ideology education for workers...

[학술논문] North Korean Art Responds to the Outside World

...attention; the beauty ideal, for example, already shows clear signs of “South Koreanization”. The past decade or so has also seen a sharp increase in foreign travel to North Korea, and with it a commercialization of the North Korean art industry that includes the production-to-order of ironic propaganda-style pictures for foreign tourists. This development, too, has already had obvious effects on the country’s...

[해외] Pyongyang Post-Party Anniversary: Shifts in Construction Priorities

...Kim Jong Un’s announcement of a new 80-day campaign, an intensive effort to rehabilitate towns affected by flooding and increase production in mines, factories and agriculture. This has likely diverted the bulk of construction workers away from the hospital for the foreseeable future. Whether efforts will shift back to finishing the hospital after the 80-day campaign concludes is largely unclear.