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October 11, 2024

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tatiana Gabroussenko

Tatiana Gabroussenko

Tatiana Gabroussenko obtained her PhD in East Asian Studies at the Australian National University. She is currently a professor of North Korean studies at Korea University, Seoul. Her latest book, "Soldiers on the Cultural Front: Developments in the Early History of North Korean Literature and Literary Policy," was included in the Choice magazine list of Outstanding Academic Titles of 2012.

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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

Tatiana GabroussenkoTatiana GabroussenkoJanuary 28, 2019
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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

Tatiana GabroussenkoTatiana GabroussenkoDecember 18, 2018
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How a Chongryon-made movie gave 1980s North Korea a glimpse of capitalist life

Aimed at instilling patriotism, "Silver Hairpin" suggested Koreans were better off in Japan

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How North Korea’s nascent consumerism has succeeded in toeing the party line

Far from challenging juche orthodoxy, DPRK-style capitalism has pushed traditional state values

Tatiana GabroussenkoTatiana GabroussenkoOctober 17, 2018
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Bureaucrats, whiners, and wild horses: industrial managers in North Korean TV

Portrayal of non-party enterprise officials has become decidedly more sympathetic over the years

Tatiana GabroussenkoTatiana GabroussenkoSeptember 13, 2018
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“Do you envy it?” Why North Korean movies urged the people to idealize city life

In DPRK culture, modern technology always means happiness

Tatiana GabroussenkoTatiana GabroussenkoJuly 23, 2018
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Suspicious knowledge: foreign languages in North Korean culture

Propaganda has traditionally portrayed those interested in life overseas with suspicion

Tatiana GabroussenkoTatiana GabroussenkoJuly 2, 2018
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“Imagine this is tasty!”: cold noodles in North Korean popular culture

The regime's propagandists turned a famine relief food into a national symbol

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Misogyny in camouflage: gender relations in Songun cinema

The "military-first" era saw DPRK culture embrace some troubling ideas about romantic relations

Tatiana GabroussenkoTatiana GabroussenkoMarch 30, 2018
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How N. Korean filmmakers turned to melodrama to win the youth for Juche

As attitudes began to change in the 1980s, DPRK filmmakers reached into the colonial past

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