The Real North Korea: in its Multiplicity of Origins, Dynamics, and Futures

Key information

Date
Time
9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Venue
Russell Square: College Buildings
Room
Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT)
Event type
Conference

About this event

Speakers: Andrei Lankov, Park Hyung-jung, Tatiana Gabroussenko, Balazs Szalontai, Kevin Gray, Charlotte Webb, Camilo Aguirre, Peter Ward

Summary

This special one-day symposium on North Korea's history, society and economy will be co-hosted by the SOAS Centre of Korean Studies and the AKS Korean Studies Laboratory: 'The Real North Korea'. It will be an opportunity to hear and discuss cutting edge research in a number of areas, including media and labour history, North Korea's international relations with the global south, and recent economic changes within the DPRK.

The event is open to all, but registration is required.

Event recordings

Tatiana Gabroussenko (Korea University) - North Korean culture of the 1980s: the delayed 'thaw'

Discussant: Xiaoning Lu (SOAS)

Andrei Lankov / Peter Ward (Kookmin University) - The Political (dis-)Embeddedness and Autonomy of North Korean Markets and Firms

Discussant: Yoram Gorlizki (University of Manchester)

Park Hyeong-jung (Korea Institute for National Unification) - The Political Economy of the “Military First Politics” under Kim Jong-il’s Reign, 1995-2011

Discussant: Kevin Gray (University of Sussex)

Balazs Szalontai (Korea University) - North Korea Discovers the Maghreb: Propaganda Narratives in the Formative Phase of Pyongyang’s Northwest African Diplomacy

Discussant: John Everard

Programme

Time Description
9:00am-9:30am Arrival, registration, tea and coffee
9:30am-9:40am Welcoming remarks
9:40am-12:40am

First panel session

Tatiana Gabroussenko (Korea University) - North Korean culture of the 1980s: the delayed 'thaw'
Discussant: Xiaoning Lu (SOAS)

 

Andrei Lankov / Peter Ward (Kookmin University) - The Political (dis-)Embeddedness and Autonomy of North Korean Markets and Firms
Discussant: Yoram Gorlizki (University of Manchester)

 

Charlotte Webb (SOAS) - Protecting the health of production: healthcare and the stratification of the North Korean industrial working class
Discussant: Donald Filtzer (University of East London)
12:40pm-1:30pm Lunch break
1:30pm-3:30pm

Second panel session
Camilo Aguirre Torrini (University of Sussex) - “People’s Diplomacy”: Chile- (North)Korea Friendship Association and the Building of Bilateral Relations, 1958-1973
Discussant: Owen Miller (SOAS)

 

Park Hyeong-jung (Korea Institute for National Unification) - The Political Economy of the “Military First Politics” under Kim Jong-il’s Reign, 1995-2011
Discussant: Kevin Gray (University of Sussex)
3:30pm-3:50pm Tea and coffee
3:50pm-4:50pm Second panel session continued
Balazs Szalontai (Korea University) - North Korea Discovers the Maghreb: Propaganda Narratives in the Formative Phase of Pyongyang’s Northwest African Diplomacy
Discussant: John Everard 
4:50pm-5:00pm Closing remarks and wrap up

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