{"id":53613,"date":"2023-01-04T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T01:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=53613"},"modified":"2023-01-03T15:46:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T06:46:53","slug":"north-korea-conducts-lectures-nationwide-explaining-new-language-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-conducts-lectures-nationwide-explaining-new-language-law\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea conducts nationwide lectures explaining new language law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea recently announced plans to enact the \u201cPyongyang Cultural Language Protection Act\u201d at the upcoming Jan. 17 meeting of the Supreme People\u2019s Assembly. The government is now conducting lectures aimed at explaining the rationale behind the law to propaganda officials throughout the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a Daily NK source in South Pyongan Province on Dec. 22, staff in the South Pyongan Province Party Committee\u2019s propaganda and agitation department attended a Saturday cadre study meeting on Dec. 17. While <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">instructing the staff on the various directions they would be taking their work,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the director of the department mentioned the adoption of the \u201cPyongyang Cultural Language Protection Act.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cadre took time during the meeting to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">set forth<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the reasoning behind the new law. \u201cOur party\u2019s propaganda and agitation workers are not properly doing their duty as warriors, and the amount of reactionary culture that has mixed into our natural language has become intolerable,\u201d the director said, adding, \u201c[North Korea] is standing at a dangerous crossroads [that will decide whether] our nation\u2019s cultural language will be erased.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In other words, the law is intended to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">comprehensively<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> crack down on North Koreans who watch South Korean movies and dramas and try to copy South Korean-style fashion, hairstyles, and ways of speaking. In fact, South Korean-style phrases, such as referring to comrades as \u201cfriends,\u201d using the pet name \u201coppa\u201d (literally \u201colder brother\u201d) to refer to one\u2019s husband, and the South Korean word for \u201cembarrassed,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-northkorea-media-idUSKBN29P0C4\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are popular<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> among young North Koreans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities also appear to recognize this <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reality, and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the South Pyongan Province official pointed this out during the lecture, saying: \u201cWe have failed to protect party members, workers, and young people from the enemy\u2019s invasive propaganda and agitation. Now, reactionary culture is rampant throughout our entire society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYoung people [10 to 30-year-olds] think that copying the speech and behavior of the [South Korean] puppets is just part of keeping up with new trends or the novelty of taking part in a new culture,\u201d the director continued, adding, \u201cThis is exactly what South Korea and our enemies are hoping for, so we must focus our work on completely crushing [the invasion of reactionary culture].\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The \u201canti-reactionary thought law,\u201d which was enacted in late 2020, banned South Korean styles of singing or speaking, punishable by <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">forced labor <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or up to two years of re-education through labor. Combined with the \u201cPyongyang Cultural Language Protection Act,\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> these two laws appear to aim to eliminate the South Korean pop culture wave that has spread across the younger generation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the lecture, the director also urged attendees to re-awaken themselves as propaganda workers. \u201cWe, as warriors on the frontlines of propaganda and agitation, have long failed the public,\u201d attendees were told. \u201cIn our aims for the next year, wiping out reactionary culture must be our greatest focus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYoung people are lowering the red flag of revolution. They admire and go out of their way to try to learn capitalist ways of speaking. This is a dangerous social trend,\u201d he went on to emphasize. \u201cWe must precisely discern the state of affairs, grasp the problem, and set out our course of action for this fight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAs the Cultural Language Protection Act comes into effect, we will set a direction for distinct ideological projects to ideologically awaken the youth, party workers, and laborers in 2023, with those plans to be reviewed by the end of January.\u201d In short, he announced that there would be a thorough review of their activities in the future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The \u201cPyongyang cultural language\u201d refers to North Korea\u2019s standard dialect, which is rooted in one of Kim Il Sung\u2019s \u201cteachings\u201d and has been in use since the 1960s. North Korea claims the language is a \u201csynthesis of the unique character and excellence of the national language and constitutes the original form of the modern, sophisticated Korean language.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Translated by Rose Adams.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20221222-2\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea recently announced plans to enact the \u201cPyongyang Cultural Language Protection Act\u201d at the upcoming Jan. 17 meeting of the Supreme People\u2019s Assembly. 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