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Benoit Symposium: Practice and Praxis of Cultural Production in North Korea:...
Kim Jong-un, the head of a state that engages in cultural production so different that it demands an entirely new vision of what cultural production itself means. | Image: KCNA It’s been a year since...
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Benoit Symposium: From Pyongyang to Mars: Sci-fi, Genre, and Literary Value...
A brief perusal of episodes of the legendary American exercise in pre-teen science fiction, the Jetson’s will tell anyone that the future certainly is not what is was meant to be. Every society seems...
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Benoit Symposium: Writers in the DPRK: The Invisible Stars
“Evening road:” shepherd girls reading “Choson Munhak” | Image: Tatiana Gabroussenko Authors in the United Kingdom, the United States and elsewhere in the world are still held in high regard in-spite...
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Benoit Symposium: Capitalist Dreams in the Communist Utopia: North Korea’s...
Moving from the literary realm to the cinematic our final stop in this Symposium comes courtesy of Wayne State University’s Sherri L. Ter Molen. Engaging with a movie emerging from the contemporary...
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Sino-NK 2013 Rewind: The Byungjin Line and North Korea in an Era of Songun...
“Forward Korea, Forward (in the direction of) Byungjin” reads the text to the KCTV video for the Byjungjin line on YouTube. | Image: Uriminzokkiri YouTube Channel While the execution of Jang Sung-taek...
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Sino-NK 2013 Rewind: Saegyehwa Politics and South Korea in the Age of...
Seoul: a globalized political space, par excellence | Image: Wikicommons The second of our analytical crystallizations at 2013’s end focuses on politics and the political on the Korean peninsula as a...
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Sino-NK 2013 Rewind: North Korean Literature at Masik Speed
Grand People’s Study House, Pyongyang | Image: Stephan We have reached the third week of Sino-NK’s 2013 Rewind series, this time a dedication to cultural and literary production in again a twin pairing...
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Sino-NK 2013 Rewind: Pop Politics and the Narrative of the Bizarre
The second of this week’s posts in Sino-NK 2013 Rewind examines North Korean cultural production from what we might term the “outside;” that is, addressing that strand of politico-cultural production...
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