LEADER 02643nam 1100205k 4500 001 20211000000000089 005 20211007122854 008 211006s2020 us 000a0 eng 020 $a9781931368568$g51995 049 0 $lBE032498$fMS 056 $a320.911$25 090 $a320.911$bA159b 100 1 $aAbrahamian, Andray 245 10$aBeing in North Korea /$dby Andray Abrahamian 260 $aStanford :$bWalter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center,$c2020 264 1$aStanford$bWalter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center$c2020 300 $a206 p. ;$c23 506 $a특수 520 $a"In 2010, while working on a Ph.D. in South Korea, Andray Abrahamian visited the other Korea, a country he had studied for years but never seen. He returned determined to find a way to work closely with North Koreans. Ten years and more than thirty visits later, Being in North Korea tells the story of his experiences helping set up and run Choson Exchange, a non-profit that teaches North Koreans about entrepreneurship and economic policy. Abrahamian was provided a unique vantage into life in North Korea that belies stereotypes rampant in the media, revealing instead North Koreans as individuals ranging from true believers in the system to cynics wishing the Stalinist experiment would just end; from introverts to bubbly chatterboxes, optimists to pessimists. He sees a North Korea that is changing, invalidating some assumptions held in the West, but perhaps reinforcing others. Amid his stories of coping with the North Korean system, of the foreigners who frequent Pyongyang, and of everyday relationships, Abrahamian explores the challenges of teaching the inherently political subject of economics in a system where everyone must self-regulate their own minds; he looks at the role of women in the North Korean economy, and their exclusion from leadership; and he discusses how information is restricted, propaganda is distributed and internalized, and even how Pyongyangs nominally illicit property market functions. Along with these stories, he interweaves the historical events that have led to todays North Korea. Drawing on the breadth of the authors in-country experience, Being in North Korea combines the intellectual rigor of a scholar with a writing style that will appeal to a general audience. Through the personal elements of a memoir that provide insights into North Korean society, readers will come away with a more realistic picture of the country and its people, and a better idea of what the future may hold for the nation"--$cProvided by publisher 653 $a북한$a경제$a조선거래소$a북한경제$a북한사회$a북한정치