The youth amid the Korean War

The North Korean regime is advocating collectivism but shows increasing individualism are slowly penetrating homes in Pyeongyang as the new Korean wave.

In data from the Ministry of Unification’s research that collected responses from 6,350 North Korean defectors between 2010 and 2020, 73 percent own CDs/DVDs and 83.3 percent have watched South Korean, Chinese, or American television programs or movies.

Findings further show there is a high preference for foreign culture, with many North Koreans particularly admiring South Korean dramas and expressing a strong desire to learn more about the outside world (73.1 percent).

“In the 1980s, South Korean music spread among a small number of North Korean youths. In the 1990s, students who studied abroad in socialist countries in the northeastern region began secretly spreading South Korean movies and dramas,” an official from the National Institute for Unification Education said.

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