Speakers: Andrei Lankov, Park Hyung-jung, Tatiana Gabroussenko, Balazs Szalontai, Kevin Gray, Charlotte Webb, Camilo Aguirre, Peter Ward
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.
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’Andrei Lankov / Peter Ward (Kookmin University) – The Political (dis-)Embeddedness and Autonomy of North Korean Markets and Firms Charlotte Webb (SOAS) – Protecting the health of production: healthcare and the stratification of the North Korean industrial working class |
| 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, 1958-1973Park Hyeong-jung (Korea Institute for National Unification) – The Political Economy of the “Military First Politics” under Kim Jong-il’s Reign, 1995-2011 |
| 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 |
| 4:50pm-5:00pm | Closing remarks and wrap up |
(automatically generated) You can find a video of this event on the SOAS website, here.