• Title/Summary/Keyword: Arduous March Collective Minds

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Collective Minds Formed through North Korea's Documentary Films during the Arduous March Period: Focusing on < Let Us Hold High the Red Banner! > (고난의 행군 시기 북한 기록영화에서 조형된 집단적 마음: <내조국 빛내리>를 중심으로)

  • Kim, Seung;Lee, Woo-Young
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.327-334
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    • 2016
  • From the present perspective, North Korea overcame its crisis situation of the regime, the Arduous March. What was the driving force, enabling the regime to overcome the situation that could have been collapsed? This study intended to look into what strategy the North Korean government took to unite the social minds through its documentary films in the midst of the national crisis. The results of analysis are as follows. First, the documentary films emphasize that the people should become heroes in heroic fantasies. These films present the model cases, in which the people break through the hardships with their strong willpower, as an answer. Second, they mind the defeatism and encourage the triumphalism. They stress the importance of uniting collective minds as a breakthrough in overcoming the economic crisis. Third, they place an emphasis on creating the harmonized minds. They repeat the recovery of communistic morality, which has been emphasized up to date. Collective minds are eventually the outcome obtained from social experiences. North Korea stresses to convert the arduous march into the march to the paradise by the creation of collective minds through documentary films even in difficult realities.