Let's Go to the Moon: Science Fiction in the North Korean Children's Magazine<i>Adong Munhak</i>, 1956–1965

Zur, Dafna

doi:10.1017/s0021911813002404

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“…In recent years, research on North Korean literature has gained significant momentum. Grounded in the pioneering scholarship produced in South Korea in the years after 1988 (Hong 2008; Kim Chaeyong 1994;Kwo ˘n 1989;Sin and O 2000), when the Republic of Korea (ROK) lifted its ban on works by those who went to the North after 1945, such work includes research that stakes out connections between cultural production in the North and in the larger socialist world (Gabroussenko 2010;Mironenko 2014;Zur 2014). Meanwhile, a complementary stream of inquiry makes connections across the thirty-eighth parallel by comparing how writers in the two Koreas have represented each other (de Wit 2015; Elfving-Hwang 2012), as well as how writers in the two Koreas have engaged with global literary trends shared in common, such as science fiction (Berthelier 2018;Kim Minso ˘n 2020;Zur 2017).…”

Section: Cross-border Readingmentioning

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In the Southern Half of Our Republic: Cross-Border Writing and Performance in 1960s North Korea

Kief

2022

J of Asian Stud

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This article offers a revisionist perspective on the relationship between 1960s North and South Korean literature by showing how writers in the North engaged with and creatively rewrote works from the South. Contextualizing such practices within a longer history of cross-border reading in the North, the article highlights how North Korean poetry and drama from the immediate aftermath of South Korea's April Revolution of 1960 took up South Korean literature's image of the volcano and reimagined it as a symbol of North-South dialogue. The article then turns to Kim Myŏngsu's Mother of the South (1965), showing how the play rewrites the South Korean novelist An Tongnim's short story “Hope” (1963) in such a way as to engineer a convergence with a line of literary representations then being produced in the North about its own colonial-era “revolutionary heritage.” Finally, the article suggests that this convergence ended up reshaping such visions of North Korea's own revolutionary past and the figure of the militant mother that emerged within them.

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Section: Cross-border Readingmentioning

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In the Southern Half of Our Republic: Cross-Border Writing and Performance in 1960s North Korea

Kief

2022

J of Asian Stud

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“…23 Children's literature is filled with Soviet influence and a celebration of technology to defeat American imperialism. 24 In kindergarten, five-year-olds are taught to believe that the state is heaven on earth. 25 This ideological training, to control children's impressions of the state, directly violates CRC articles dedicated to education and freedom of expression.…”

Section: Education Militarization and The Expectations Of Youthmentioning

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The Soldiers of Songbun: Militarization, Human Rights Abuse and Childhood Experiences of North Korean Youth

Steele¹

2020

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North Korea is an enigma. The United Nations (UN) states that it is “…without parallel in the contemporary world …” in terms of abuse, exploitation and lack of civil rights. No other rogue state commands the attention and mystique as the isolated nation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Despite an increasingly prevalent international front, including warming relations with South Korea and the threat of nuclear weapons, everyday citizens remain hidden. Public displays of Olympic cheerleaders or the admittance of “K-Pop” stars across the Korean Demilitarization Zone (DMZ) distract from the widespread human rights abuses and public indoctrination that is second nature in the country. But this is no surprise; In the DPRK, the leader is above all else. While marginalized groups in other countries may be granted a voice by international organizations, the vulnerable in North Korea are obscured in the shadow of the great leader’s actions.

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“…There are studies on the children's magazines in terms of content, educational uses and advertisements (Hazar & Işık, 2017;Holiday 2018;Kaptan & Sürmeli, 2011;Karagöz 2019;Kuyucu, 2016;Sürmeli, 2010;Zur, 2014). The studies dealing with the analysis of values in children's magazines are also carried out (Alabay, Can, Kandemir & Güney, 2018;Güler, 2019;Korkusuz, 2020).…”

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Value of “Helpfulness” in Children’s Magazines

Yeter

Fidan

2021

Journal of Education and Future

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Many different methods of acquisition of values are described in the previous studies. Some secondary resources may also be required when using these methods. Children's magazines, one of such helpful sources, should be given importance in this regard. Considering the ease of access to children's magazines and their interesting content, it can be said that their content has very significant effects on children. Their content is important in terms of the acquisition of values. The aim of this study is to analyse the content of children's magazines in acquisition of values to children. Document analysis, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the study. The sample of the study include four children's magazine published in Turkey which have the highest circulation. With the "Value Assessment Form" that is developed by the authors, the value of helpfulness in the children's magazines was analyzed by two different researchers using the content analysis method. The findings of the study indicate that the value of helpfulness is significantly covered in magazines analysed. The order of the children's magazines in terms of containing the value of helpfulness is as follows: TRT Çocuk (TRT Children's magazine), National Geographic Kids, Araştırmacı Çocuk (Researchers Kids) and Bilim Çocuk (Science Kids). In each issue of all magazines this value is found to be covered.

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Let's Go to the Moon: Science Fiction in the North Korean Children's MagazineAdong Munhak, 1956–1965

Cited by 14 publications

References 22 publications

In the Southern Half of Our Republic: Cross-Border Writing and Performance in 1960s North Korea

In the Southern Half of Our Republic: Cross-Border Writing and Performance in 1960s North Korea

The Soldiers of Songbun: Militarization, Human Rights Abuse and Childhood Experiences of North Korean Youth

Value of “Helpfulness” in Children’s Magazines

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