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Korean artists accused of profit-seeking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">North Korea organized a special lecture for artists at the prestigious Mansudae Art Studio to demand their ideological allegiance amid concerns about private art sales and &#8220;capitalist thinking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">&#8220;The vice director of the party&#8217;s Propaganda and Agitation Department personally delivered an hour-and-a-half lecture on June 14 at the studio conference hall to heighten artists&#8217; ideological awareness about their conscience and character,&#8221; a Pyongyang source told Daily NK recently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">The lecture served as an ideological intervention designed to condemn non-socialist behavior some artists displayed in the first half of the year and to push artists to restore their moral integrity and revolutionary commitment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">The vice director criticized artists who had attended art school and even studied overseas with party support, saying they were too focused on enriching themselves to take pride in belonging to the country&#8217;s premier artistic institution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">He specifically cited about a dozen artists and administrators who had been fired, expelled from the party, and exiled to remote areas for such behavior during the first half of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">The vice director&#8217;s criticism was particularly harsh regarding private art sales. &#8220;Some artists, abandoning socialist principles under the influence of capitalist thinking, have tried to arrange private sales of their artwork overseas,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That&#8217;s not just a mistake\u2014it&#8217;s a sign of class degeneration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"text-xl font-bold text-text-100 mt-1 -mb-0.5\"><em>Revolutionary role emphasized<\/em><\/h4>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">The official outlined the regime&#8217;s vision for artists&#8217; purpose: &#8220;Artists are a weapon of the revolution that creates wealth for the state; they are fighters on the Party&#8217;s front lines who shape the people&#8217;s ideology and emotions. Artists in the Kim Jong Un era are scouts of moral culture who are conscientious, incorruptible, and possess high moral character.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">He added, &#8220;All artists, calligraphers, craftspeople, and even ordinary studio administrators must be ideologically committed to advancing the party&#8217;s work; they must be models of moral ideals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">According to the source, the lecture served two goals: reviewing artists&#8217; work from the first half of the year and providing ideological motivation for second-half tasks. Rather than simple organizational management, it represented an ideological measure aimed at condemning non-socialist behavior throughout the artistic community while boosting artists&#8217; integrity and party loyalty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">&#8220;This lecture was an important opportunity to reset the ideological atmosphere inside the studio while raising awareness about certain artists&#8217; aberrant behavior,&#8221; the source explained. &#8220;The party&#8217;s Propaganda and Agitation Department plans to extend this ideological training to the Korean Art Gallery, the State Art Exhibition, and provincial art studios.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"text-xl font-bold text-text-100 mt-1 -mb-0.5\"><em>Artists caught in dilemma<\/em><\/h4>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">Studio artists felt troubled by the lecture&#8217;s message.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">&#8220;Artists are caught between their ideological duties and practical needs,&#8221; the source said. &#8220;They say it&#8217;s difficult to survive on the rations and wages authorities provide, but if they sell any paintings, they&#8217;ll be banished for betraying the party. They were shaken learning what happened to colleagues who tried to make a living selling a few paintings or calligraphy pieces.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">The vice director reminded artists about the upcoming 80th anniversary of the ruling party&#8217;s establishment on Oct. 10\u2014a major political milestone in North Korea\u2014and stressed their need to complete assigned tasks, including large murals and propaganda paintings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20250626-4\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea organized a special lecture for artists at the prestigious Mansudae Art Studio to demand their ideological allegiance amid concerns about private art sales and &#8220;capitalist thinking.&#8221; &#8220;The vice director of the party&#8217;s Propaganda and Agitation Department personally delivered an hour-and-a-half lecture on June 14 at the studio conference hall to heighten artists&#8217; ideological [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":42559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,681,1360],"tags":[135,786,1177],"class_list":["post-64034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-politics","category-society","tag-propaganda","tag-ideology","tag-culture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>N. 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