A Book Talk hosted by Center for Korean Research Featuring: Cheehyung Harrison Kim, Assistant Professor, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa In search of national unity and state control in the decade following the Korean War, North Korea turned to labor. Mandating rapid industrial growth, the government stressed order and consistency in everyday life at … [Read more...]
Thurs. Feb. 7th Book Talk hosted by CKR: “Heroes and Toilers: Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953-1961”
Book Talk hosted by Center for Korean Research Featuring: Cheehyung Harrison Kim, Assistant Professor, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Visit WEAI's book series page for more about the book, found here. Thursday, February 7, 2019 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM International Affairs Building 918 Registration not required. Co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian … [Read more...]
Heroes and Toilers: Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953–1961
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Cheehyung Harrison Kim (Columbia University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. In North Korea in the decade following the Korean War, labor became the defining means of state control and national unity. In pursuit of rapid industrial growth, the North Korean state stressed order and consistency in … [Read more...]


