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More articles by 'Tatiana Gabroussenko'
Unconverted political prisoners, and inter-Korean romance, in DPRK fiction
Stories based (very) loosely on the real-life repatriations of prisoners from South to North became popular in the 2000s
Changing narratives of adoption in North Korean mass culture
Following the famine of the 1990s, North Korean films increasingly promoted individuals adopting orphaned children
Shaking the people’s paradise: Ri Chung Gu’s subversive North Korean anti-heroes
Reflecting the changing times, one DPRK writer sought to portray more believable juche apostates
“Kings of the country”: growing up in North Korea isn’t always as bad as you’d think
Children in the DPRK enjoy more freedom and less mollycoddling from parents than kids in the West
“Brothers”: the banned North Korean-Soviet film ruined by Juche politics
A jointly-produced movie, the first of its kind, showed just how strict the DPRK really was
Dangerous myths: why North Korean culture idolizes the Koguryo period
DPRK-made cartoons often distort historical reality and perpetuate nationalist falsehoods
Domestic strivers as anti-heroines: household chores in North Korean movies
DPRK official culture long treated women's work at home as second class
“Flames”: how an unusual tale of North Korean romance pushed the boundaries
Unrequited love and female-on-male harassment define this unique DPRK-made serial
Socialism with a human face? North Korea’s brief, but impactful, cultural “thaw”
DPRK official culture in the 1980s sought to encourage citizens to be more empathetic
Feature-length commercials: N. Korean ideological dramas peddling products
How a drama centered on a mineral water factory set the stage for a new type of advertising
