In the countries of the former socialist bloc, the emergence of market advertising was the first sign of the end of Communism. North Korea is no exclusion from this rule.
However, the chosen course of “reforms without openness” made nascent North Korean advertising quite special, in many aspects different from the post-Soviet analogue.
In the countries of the former socialist bloc, the emergence of market advertising was the first sign of the end of Communism. North Korea is no exclusion from this rule.
However, the chosen course of “reforms without openness” made nascent North Korean advertising quite special, in many aspects different from the post-Soviet analogue.
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