Entertainment Made By North Korea

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  @PaperWill · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

  Go to <a href="https://ground.news/paper">https://ground.news/paper</a> to stay fully informed on what’s happening in North Korea and around the world. Subscribe through my link for 40% off unlimited access this month.<br><br>1. Addendum: I&apos;m currently looking into ways to categorize and share all the movies/music/tv shows/channels I found during research. For now: if there&apos;s anything from this video you&apos;d like to watch for yourself, leave a comment/send me an email, &nbsp;and I&apos;ll provide a link! <br><br>2. Wanna listen to Funky&apos;s recording of &quot;that&quot; North Korean rock band at the end? Enjoy! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q05d_mX5hwU">https://youtu.be/Q05d_mX5hwU</a><br><br>3. I may eventually released the full 9 hour version of the video. Bad news, it won&apos;t be for awhile. Good news, I promise it won&apos;t be behind a Patreon paywall or something. Maybe the subchannel. But....<br><br>4....If you&apos;d like to see the full Collision in Korea segment I had to cut for copyright issues, here you go: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFh5R9XwiiE">https://youtu.be/sFh5R9XwiiE</a> <br><br>5. Recommended channels/reading: <br>StreeterSweeper&apos;s excellent video on the difficulties of studying North Korea: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdEL1m8PhYo">https://youtu.be/WdEL1m8PhYo</a> (It&apos;s one of my favorite YouTube videos of all time, please check it out!)<br><br>North Korea Uncovered <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@NorthKoreaUncovered">https://www.youtube.com/@NorthKoreaUncovered</a><br><br>DPRK Explained <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/DPRKExplained">https://www.youtube.com/c/DPRKExplained</a><br><br>Jacco Zwetsloot&apos;s wonderful thesis on NK comics, &quot;North Korean Comics and their Visual Language in the Work of Ch’oe Hyŏk&quot; <a href="https://t.co/fAB98iYYO6">https://t.co/fAB98iYYO6</a> <br><br>6. Additional Sources List/Recommended Reading/Accounts from the March can be found here: <a href="https://pastebin.com/7X2QJsc5">https://pastebin.com/7X2QJsc5</a><br><br>7. &nbsp;Corrections/Notes<br>- The Kim Il Sung &quot;cameos&quot; were actually performed by several actors, not Kim Il Sung himself. I phrased it REALLY badly in the video by comparing it to Stan Lee cameos, that&apos;s my bad. <br>- Quite a few users have pointed out, I was 100% wrong about the Simba/Kimba White Lion comparison! If you&apos;d like to learn more, YMS has a terrific video explaining the situation, (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5B1mIfQuo4">https://youtu.be/G5B1mIfQuo4)</a><br>- In later seasons of Squirrel and Hedgehog, the real-world country comparisons become a lot more cut and dry. I should have talked a bit more about that. <br>- The &quot;Now You Realize This Means War&quot; comic seems to be a fake. What a terrible, wonderful relief. (I&apos;ll credit the user who mentioned this once I get their approval!)<br>- Thanks to @derbydali for pointing out that Shonen Mowgli Jungle Book and Robin Hood were produced in Japan, and only distributed by MondoTV.<br>- @hogziller pointed out that the train game was a minigame Uriminzokkiri apparently took from Railroad Tycoon 3. <br>- Some people have pointed out that in the 2000s, Squirrel and Hedgehog really began leaning heavily into more obvious parallels (the wolves are America, bears are Russia, etc.) and I think that&apos;s true, but I maintain that in the 70s and 80s, the characters were more representations of general ideas and not specific countries. Just my opinion though! <br><br>If I missed something, please let me know and I&apos;ll add it to the list!

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  @elliot-shiro · 1 year ago

  &quot;kimppearances&quot; what a missed opportunity to call it kimeos

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  @indoorin · 2 years ago

  This should qualify as a PhD dissertation

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  @Hyperwing4678 · 2 years ago

  I absolutely love how some dude called Funky goes to North Korea and basically does School of Rock. Like, literally, man goes to teach rock music to a group of students, already talented in classical, bonds with them over music, then gets them to write their own rock song.

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  @PaleJulia · 1 year ago

  The moral of the story: you cannot make real timeless art if you are restricted by censorship and prohibited from taking creative risks and challenging the norm

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  @wolvoid · 2 years ago

  nothing is better than finding out a youtuber you thought left the platform was working on a 5 hour long giga-video

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  @exevirus1989 · 1 year ago

  we need a director&apos;s cut with every off topic rant included

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  @Hailbeyond · 2 years ago

  Not being ironic here, but im actually surprised you were able to put this together so quickly. 18 months to completely educate yourself on an entire country&apos;s history of entertainment AND chronicle it in a cohesive manner is INSANE! Outstanding job, I hope you&apos;re proud of your work!

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  @osore_rareru · 1 year ago

  Kim Jong-Il writes his fanfiction about his birth the same as Onision

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  @wtvabro · 2 years ago

  I love how the “city bad, small village good” sentiment is shared by both North Korea and Hallmark movies

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  @fluffcake · 2 years ago

  Being a director on the rocks and then kidnapped by a dictator and then told “Make some cool movies for me” must be something out of a bad dream. It sucks that it wasn’t

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  @EzaleaGraves · 2 years ago

  Kim Jung Il: Why doesn&apos;t anyone internationally like my movies?<br>The movies: Oh boy, I sure am glad that Kim Il Sung saved us from the evil people in the rest of the world.

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