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Article offers rare look inside a North Korean university

Times Higher Education, 2021-09 (2490)

Copyright THE World Universities Insights Limited Sep 2, 2021 ;ISSN: 0049-3929

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    Article offers rare look inside a North Korean university
  • Subjects: Asian students ; College students ; Colleges & universities ; Foreign students ; Higher education ; Interpersonal Relationship ; Korean ; Older people ; Propaganda
  • Is Part Of: Times Higher Education, 2021-09 (2490)
  • Description: Former foreign students recount memorable experiences in world’s most isolated country, including being openly spied on by their hosts An article published this month in The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology offers an extremely rare look at social interaction in a country that its former leader Kim Jong Il described as “shrouded in fog”. [...]a doctoral student at Stanford University, Mr Sigley carried out in-depth interviews with four foreign students who attended Kim Il Sung University while he was a master’s student, from 2018 to 2019. [...]when foreign students offered to invite a particularly beloved and elderly professor for a meal before they left, he refused, citing “rules”.
  • Publisher: London: THE World Universities Insights Limited
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0049-3929
  • Source: ProQuest Central

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