Culture
Information related to the North Korean culture and culture in North Korea
Is North Korea a racist state?
How well does the average N.Korean retain ultra-nationalist, occasionally race-tinged propaganda?
North Korea’s Juche: Myth or meaningful?
Juche may not qualify as ‘ideology,’ but its significance should not be dismissed
North Korea’s crazy trains
The North's trains are packed, take too long and short on food - and wonderful in their own way
The ups and downs of working in North Korean aid
Former aid worker discusses life on the ground – and the effect of sanctions on agencies’ day to day
Hero? Traitor? Vicious missionary? N.Korea’s many social labels
Reference book contains stunning new details about regime's classification system
The good – but not too good – Japanese of N.Korean mass culture
The late 1980s saw the movement of the ‘good foreigner,’ including from Japan, in Northern works
In Russia, selective memorials of Kim Jong Il’s true birthplace
Some memories, but little official recognition, of Kim Jong Il in his birthplace
N.Korea insists on ‘ritual’ displays that harm itself: Academic
Kim Jong Un more likely to die in office than see his regime collapse, historian of Korea says
College life in North Korea: It’s like the military
You're tested on Kim family works, you can't pick your major, and don't even think of being late
How the Korean Wave affects the N.Korea-China borderlands
Ethnic Koreans in Yanbian fall increasingly under sway of the South, not their Northern neighbors
