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A Study on Complications Appeared on the Production Field in North Korea - the Industrialization era -

Keunwoo Nam 1

1한양대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

The main Purpose of this article is focus on everyday labour of North Korea that appeared on the research field in the 50s to 70s when the North Korea’s political system originated. For this purpose, try to recover the importance of acts of common people in North Korea such as production managers, labourers, and farmers who usually ignored in researches in South Korea so far. Up to today researches on North Korea had tendency to focusing too much on the inspection and control system of the country which designed to reinforce the hierarchical command system, therefore made image of North Korean people as passive individuals who regarded no free will and choice. But the daily routine labours of production field are not the passive area as it seems, it is rather specific spot of the life that various actions represented influenced by realistic conditions of the scenes of labour. Therefore, North Korean is active factor of society who chooses their actions by their wills not passive robotic people only follows orders of authorities. And various indications of active actions were already showed confidentially several places from the industrialization era.

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