Korea Today
Cover page of Korea Today
Vice-Director and Editor-in-ChiefHan Pong Chan[1]
Former editorsSon Din-fa
Categoriescurrent affairs,[1] propaganda
FrequencyMonthly
Format26cm,[2] 50–55 pages[3]
Online[2] (PDF)
Circulation138,000 (1997)[3]
First issueJanuary 1950 (1950-01)
CompanyForeign Languages Publishing House
CountryNorth Korea
Based inSochong-dong, Sosong District, Pyongyang[4]
LanguageEnglish, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish
Websitewww.korean-books.com.kp/en/search/?page=periodic-magazine
ISSN0454-4072
OCLC8797015

Korea Today, first published as New Korea,[5] is a North Korean propaganda[6] magazine published monthly by the Foreign Languages Publishing House in Pyongyang.[1]

The magazine focuses on cultural and industrial progress made in the country.[7] It also publishes North Korea short stories.[8] Copies of the magazine are handed out to tourists on flights into the country.[9]

The magazine was initially published in Russian only.[5] Today, it is published in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish.[4]

History

The magazine was first published as New Korea (Russian: Новая Корея) in January 1950[5] by the New Korea Publishing House,[10] the predecessor of the Foreign Languages Publishing House.[11] Since 1959, it has been published as Korea Today.[2]

In December 1955, Son Din-fa,[12] the chief editor of New Korea, was dismissed from his post and convicted to manual labor after drawing influences of de-Stalinization from the Soviet Union and criticizing the personality cult of Kim Il-sung.[13]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Maher, Joanne, ed. (2004). The Europa World Year Book 2004 – Countries: Kazakhstan – Zimbabwe. Vol. 2. London: Europa Publications. p. 2483. ISBN 978-1-85743-255-8. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 Korea Today (Journal, magazine, 1959). OCLC 8797015.
  3. 1 2 "Periodicals of DPRK". KCNA. 27 March 1997. Archived from the original on 12 October 2014. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
  4. 1 2 Katz, William A.; Sternberg Katz, Linda (1997). R. R. Bowker's Magazines for Libraries: For the General Reader and School, Junior College, College, University, and Public Libraries (9th ed.). R. R. Bowker. p. 180. ISBN 978-0-8352-3907-3. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 Curtis Melvin, ed. (3 December 2009). "Friday Grab Bag: NOKO Jeans go on sale; Korea Today turns 60". North Korean Economy Watch. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  6. ↑ Hassig, Ralph; Oh, Kongdan (2015). The Hidden People of North Korea: Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom (2nd ed.). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-4422-3719-3. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  7. ↑ Harry G. Shaffer, ed. (1967). "Appendix: Index of Selected Periodicals on Communism and the Communist World". The Communist World: Marxist and Non-Marxist Views. Vol. 2. Meredith Publishing Company. p. 552. OCLC 228608. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  8. ↑ David-West, Alzo (November 2013). "An Inquiry of Intentions in Kim Hye-yŏng's 'First Meeting': A North Korean Short Story in Korea Today (2007)" (PDF). Transnational Literature. 6 (1): 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  9. ↑ Franklin-Wallis, Oliver (26 June 2014). "Threatening war over a Seth Rogen movie? Business as usual for North Korea". Archived from the original on 10 July 2014. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  10. ↑ Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Foreign Languages Publishing House. 1989. p. 40. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  11. ↑ Yonhap News Agency, Seoul (27 December 2002). North Korea Handbook. M.E. Sharpe. p. 424. ISBN 978-0-7656-3523-5. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  12. ↑ Lankov, Andrey (January 2002). From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945–1960. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. p. 191. ISBN 978-1-85065-563-3. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  13. ↑ Lankov, Andrey (2007). Crisis in North Korea: The Failure of De-Stalinization, 1956. University of Hawaii Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-8248-3207-0. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
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