Everyday life in the North Korean revolution, 1945-1950
Suzy Kim (Author)
During the founding of North Korea, competing visions of an ideal modern state proliferated. Independence and democracy were touted by all, but plans for the future of North Korea differed in their ideas about how everyday life should be organized. Daily life came under scrutiny as the primary arena for social change in public and private life. Kim examines the revolutionary events that shaped people{u2019}s lives in the development of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. By shifting the historical focus from the state and the Great Leader to how villagers experienced social revolution, Kim offers new insights into why North Korea insists on setting its own course
Print Book, English, 2016
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2016