Talk:Culture of North Korea/Archive 1

Requested move
Heroeswithmetaphors (talk) 16:51, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Renaming
I renamed this page to achieve consistency with "Contemporary culture of South Korea". Seeing as how there is a page called "Culture of Korea" which presents cultural aspects common to both Koreas and another page "Contemporary culture of South Korea" describing cultural traits particular to South Korea, it seemed inconsistent for there to be an article titled "Culture of North Korea". --Ce garcon 03:38, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Non-propaganda music and film
Whilst I don't doubt that there's a lot of music and film about the greatness of North Korea and the Dear Leader and how imperialists are evil, this article mentions absolutely nothing about any other kind of music or film. Basically the article says "music is used for propaganda" "film is also recognised as a great means of propaganda". This seems to me to be a bit POV, because it seems like rather than trying to provide an across-the-board description of Culture in NK, its purely trying to show the evil commies as brainwashing their people.

Does North Korea have pop music? Do the kids like rock and roll? How about techno? Am I to beleive that there are no movies in North Korea that are simply tales of love, and not about something political? Does a guy ever pick up a guitar in bar (or where ever people go at the end of the day to relax) and just sing - about his love, or his day - or are all songs really written by the government?

What do kids like to do in their spare time?

--Hugzz (talk) 02:52, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

There is virtually nothing non-political in the DPRK, it's almost impossible to be neutral about North Korea because it really is like something out of Nineteen Eighty-Four (save for the fact that the North Korean regime doesn't have the resources to install CCTV camera's in every home). All music, film, radio and television is tightly regulated by the government, North Korea has been sealed from the real world since the 1950's so modern genre's of music such as pop are unhead of (With the exception of some Soviet-era Russian pop music). Senior members of the communist party and their families are permitted to enjoy music, films and television that is forbidden to the rest of the population (Kim Jong-il has one of the largest private film libraries in the world) but the average NK prole has almost nothing to listen to or watch that isn't political propaganda of some sort, even childrens cartoons on television are propaganda, depicting South Koreans as rats, the British as weasels and the Americans as wolves - TashkentFox 18:40, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Propaganda
This article is total crap. There are no references. It reads like North Korean Propaganda. Someone put the poor thing out of its misery. 131.172.4.44 (talk) 01:40, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

This article is awesomely biased. Awesome. Mrxuinthehouse (talk) 01:26, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Move to Contemporary culture of North Korea
"Culture of North Korea" is highly ambiguous. This article mainly deals with modern, post-Japanese rule culture in North Korea. Clearly, this article mainly deals with contemporary culture, and not traditional culture (as in Culture of Korea). --  李博杰   | —Talk contribs email 01:31, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Visual arts
There should be something on the visual arts: sculpture etc.--Jack Upland (talk) 08:01, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

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