Encountering My Korea

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Missionary Photography in Korea: Encountering the West through Christianity, by Donald N. Clark

Sign in via your Institution Sign In. Sign in via your Institution Sign in. Citing articles via Google Scholar. Email alerts Latest Issue. Subscribe to Article Alert. Duke University Press W. This site uses cookies. By continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our privacy policy. Please note that I generally follow MacCune-Reischauer romanization in this article, but also adopt common DPRK English spellings for specific people or places where they exist. The ideology of Juche is the fundamental guiding principle behind the North Korean approach to the world.

It has connotations of nationalist pride and self-determination. Theory and Policy," Korea Journal 31, no. Prentice Hall, , Marshall Pihl's "Engineers of the Human Soul: Cornell East Asia Series, , are notable exceptions to the lack of analysis of individual stories, although his scorn for much of the work he examines is readily palpable. A house is for people, not for storing objects like a storeroom.

My point is, in fact, that such ambiguities leak into these recent texts even when they may not in any way be intended by their authors.

Encountering North Korea-Style Education

Indiana University Press, We may similarly apply her approach to a reader's possible reaction to the coerciveness of the values of Chuch'e ideology in North Korean literature. This paper is dedicated to the memory of Marshall Pihl. The new year is dawning. The thought that we are entering the last year of the current century arouses a different feeling within me than usual. My heart is overwhelmed with emotion and my thoughts come ever more frequently.

Not many years ago the twenty-first century seemed as remote as the ends of space Read more from the September issue Go Back. The opportunity for them to practice English with native speakers is extremely rare, and my impression was that they appreciated and enjoyed it. It was also rewarding for us to be granted the opportunity to visit a North Korean school to get a glimpse inside their education system.

Encountering North Korea-Style Education - DailyNK

It is one of the few buildings in the capital built in the traditional Korean style. Everything about our tour of the library was eerily Truman Show -esque, in that a lot of what we we saw had been placed there expressly for us. For example, a carton of books rolled out of the automated book-lending system right as we arrived at the lending desk. Among the titles were Huckleberry Finn and Gone with the Wind. Neither books, I was told, were permitted to be checked out by North Koreans. Lights in the hallways and some study rooms would flicker when we passed by but would turn off as soon as we left.

In this photograph I took of a computer lab, every screen displays the same thing because all of the computers were turned on just before we entered the room.

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While this may have been the case for every official destination throughout the week, it was only jarringly evident at the library. Facilities available for visitors to the library include televisions, stereos, computers with access to the North Korean intranet and the library lending system, and tape recorders that I recognized from my high school foreign language class ten years ago.

It was all very dated but it seemed to work fine. We were also able to converse with North Koreans who were studying English in their spare time and, like the students we had met at the middle school, jumped at the opportunity to practice with native speakers. These interactions were not scripted of course, but everything else was. Approaching the Ri Son Kwon noodle controversy from the perspective of national reconciliation.

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