{"id":55374,"date":"2023-06-14T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=55374"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:49:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:49:49","slug":"professors-north-korea-top-economics-school-dodge-question-socialist-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/professors-north-korea-top-economics-school-dodge-question-socialist-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Professors at N. Korea&#8217;s top economics school dodge questions about socialist economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professors at Chong Jun Taek University of Economics have aroused controversy by avoiding students\u2019 questions or forbidding students from asking questions at all, Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Located in Wonsan, Kangwon Province, the school is regarded as having North Korea\u2019s top economics program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons, a Daily NK source in Kangwon Province reported on Monday that professors at the university had been facing a barrage of questions from students who are comparing what they are learning in their classes with the reality around them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, students at Chong Jun Taek University of Economics were asking pointed questions while learning about the socialist planned economy and the capitalist market economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One problematic question was posed by a second-year student in the economics department at Chong Jun Taek University of Economics in early May.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSince the planned economy of socialism is a system in which everything is controlled and run by the state, the food supply can break down &#8211; something we\u2019re seeing right now\u00a0 &#8211; when the state doesn\u2019t distribute rations. But in the market-oriented economy of capitalism, individuals are paid according to the amount they work. Doesn\u2019t the capitalist economic approach strike you as being more logical?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That led to a severe reprimand from the professor, who said that \u201cit\u2019s wrong to even ask a question like that\u201d and that the student had \u201cstudied in vain.\u201d But the professor did not offer a decent response to the student\u2019s question.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other students in the class reportedly grumbled that the professor\u2019s refusal to answer the question amounted to an acknowledgment that the market economy of capitalism was more logical.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYoung people can\u2019t help but feel skeptical when they\u2019re taught that the planned economy of North Korea is superior to the capitalist economic system. That&#8217;s because North Koreans are starving to death and they know from South Korean media that people are better off in capitalist countries,\u201d the source explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSince the professors are part of the same society, they have to dodge or shut down problematic questions from their students, since those questions could result in the professors themselves being prosecuted for thought crimes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEven if professors think there\u2019s a problem with the socialistic economic system, they can\u2019t make such remarks in public spaces. I can only imagine how frustrating it must be for professors not to be able to speak their minds to their students.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chong Jun Taek University of Economics was established as the Wonsan University of Economics in 1960, renamed Chong Jun Taek University of Economics in 1990, and given its current name in 1997.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Correction:<\/strong> <em>An earlier version of this article stated that a student who posed a problematic question to a professor was a &#8220;freshman.&#8221; In fact, the individual was a second-year student. The article has been revised to reflect this.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Translated by David Carruth. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Daily NK works with a network of sources who live inside North Korea, China and elsewhere. Their identities remain anonymous due to security concerns. More information about Daily NK\u2019s reporting partner network and information gathering activities can be found on our FAQ page\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/faq\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/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\/20230612-1\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professors at Chong Jun Taek University of Economics have aroused controversy by avoiding students\u2019 questions or forbidding students from asking questions at all, Daily NK has learned. 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