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The Educational Learning System of the North Korean Women: Centering around the Activity of North Korean Women's Alliance

Mi-Kyung Lee 1

1통일교육원

Candidate

ABSTRACT

This paper examine the educational learning system of the North Korean women into figuring out that they have taken the double burden under the discriminatory social structure for granted and the cause of it. In North Korea, in which the ideology have been taken priority over all, a learning of thought education have been regarded as a means of socialization have made the North Korean members of the society, passive being who have to obey the dictation without condition. The educational learning system of the North Korean women aims to make a woman who successfully carry out multiple roles which the system of North Korea encourages or needs. In this respect, the main contents of educational learning system of the North Korean women is loyalty to the leader, socialistic morality, revolutionary optimism, women's traditional role, a class struggle, etc. As a result, the North Korean women have accepted their conditions without awareness having a double burden with social mobilization and coerced labor under the sexually repressive and discriminative social environment. Also this conformable mentality of North Korean women t is demonstrated that there was no shift in their awareness such as critical awareness and comprehensive denial over patriarchism while women's status and role were changing after the economic crisis.

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