{"id":51568,"date":"2022-05-09T14:50:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T05:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=51568"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:52:10","slug":"n-korea-sentences-young-woman-to-two-decades-in-prison-for-distributing-s-korean-tv-shows-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/n-korea-sentences-young-woman-to-two-decades-in-prison-for-distributing-s-korean-tv-shows-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea sentences young woman to two decades in prison for distributing S. Korean TV shows, movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea has sentenced a woman in her 20s to two decades in prison for distributing a large amount of \u201cimpure\u201d cultural materials, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even as North Korea intensifies punishments for importing South Korean pop cultural items such as films, TV shows and music, young North Koreans continue to enjoy and long for them. As a result, the authorities are handing down even harsher punishments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a Daily NK source in South Pyongan Province on Friday, the woman \u2014 identified by her family name of Choe \u2014 was arrested by a strike force of the local branch of Unified Command 82 (the unified command on non-socialist and anti-socialist behavior) in Kaechon early last month for distributing large numbers of USBs and SD cards filled with South Korean movies, TV shows and other cultural items.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said Choe was sentenced to 20 years after the authorities slapped the additional charge of \u201cpromoting the consumption of foreign culture ahead of the birthday of late national founder Kim Il Sung on Apr. 15\u201d on top of the existing charge of illegally selling and distributing recordings unapproved by the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The authorities subjected Choe to an intense investigation since she was caught selling illegal recordings ahead of Kim Il Sung\u2019s 110th birthday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During Unified Command 82\u2019s investigation, Choe reportedly confessed to illegally selling and distributing South Korean movies and TV programs \u2014 i.e., \u201cimpure\u201d materials \u2014 over many years. In particular, she had been selling SD cards with South Korean films or TV programs for USD 20 to 70 each, depending on how many recordings they contained, and even watched the illicit materials together with friends who gathered for holidays and birthdays.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea adopted a law to eradicate so-called \u201creactionary thought and culture\u201d in December 2020.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/exclusive-daily-nk-obtains-materials-explaining-specifics-new-anti-reactionary-thought-law\/\"> explanatory material for the law<\/a> obtained by Daily NK last year, Article 27 of the law calls for sentences of five to 15 years of correctional labor against people caught watching, listening or possessing \u201cfilms, recordings, publications, books, songs, drawings or photos from South Choson [South Korea],\u201d and life sentences of correctional labor or death for individuals who import and distribute such materials.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51573\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51573\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51573 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/South-Pyongan-Scenery-2014-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/South-Pyongan-Scenery-2014-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/South-Pyongan-Scenery-2014-1-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/South-Pyongan-Scenery-2014-1-768x418.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/South-Pyongan-Scenery-2014-1-696x378.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/South-Pyongan-Scenery-2014-1-772x420.jpg 772w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from South Pyongan Province taken in 2014 (Wikimedia Commons, Bj\u00f8rn Christian T\u00f8rrissen)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That North Korea sentenced Choe to a sentence heavier than the legally mandated one suggests the authorities intend to generate a climate of fear by demonstrating to people that even more severe punishments await anti-socialist and non-socialist behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this way, North Korean authorities believe people who illegally distribute or sell foreign cultural content are the reason why the country\u2019s citizens are being exposed to capitalist culture that threatens the regime, and is intensifying crackdowns as they enact laws to punish such behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With people openly distributing USBs and SD cards full of South Korean pop cultural content like films and TV shows despite the new law, the authorities are demonstrating \u2014 through severe punishments \u2014 that they will never overlook or forgive behavior that goes against the regime.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Daily NK\u2019s source, Choe was quickly investigated and tried within just 10 days of her arrest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source further reported that Choe was severely punished as her bust came while the authorities were conducting an intensive ideological training campaign directed at the youth. He said the case demonstrates that the government\u2019s \u201cwar of extermination\u201d on anti-socialist and non-socialist behavior is more than just words.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source added that the government is quickly moving to crackdown on people watching and distributing South Korean movies and TV dramas and he thinks that people who were boldly selling or purchasing USBs or SD cards with foreign films despite the intensified inspections and crackdowns will now lie low after Choe\u2019s case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Translated by David Black. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20220506-3\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea has sentenced a woman in her 20s to two decades in prison for distributing a large amount of \u201cimpure\u201d cultural materials, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 Even as North Korea intensifies punishments for importing South Korean pop cultural items such as films, TV shows and music, young North Koreans continue to enjoy and long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":51569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,1360],"tags":[1942,3243],"class_list":["post-51568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-society","tag-south-korean-culture","tag-crime-corruption"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>N. 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