#12882. Sojourn in Paradise: The Experiences of Foreign Students in North Korea

2022publication date
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Abstract:
North Korea is well-known for the intense social control it imposes upon its citizens and foreign visitors. This social control serves to circumscribe interactions between the two groups, limit the flow of information in either direction which may be detrimental to North Korea’s propaganda narrative, and maintain North Korea’s isolation from the outside world. Foreign students in Pyongyang are not exempt from such social control. However, they are granted opportunities allowing them to experience the country more comprehensively such as freedom of movement within the city and the chance to live alongside local students and interact extensively with their teachers. By probing the experiences of four former foreign students of Kim Il Sung University to examine what their social interactions reveal about North Korean social control, its mechanisms and limitations, this article attributes agency to people living under North Korea’s system and complicates dominant paradigms of totalitarianism.
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Foreign Students; Late-Socialism; North Korea; Social Control

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