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We made and released a video showing that North Korea has overcome Corona and returned to daily life. However, as the background music in the video can be heard a bit, a famous song from a singer familiar to us was used.

Reporter Kim A-young analyzed how to interpret this behavior in North Korea.

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North Korea's foreign propaganda media This is a video released today, saying that this is what Pyongyang looks like today.

It is about propaganda saying that you have overcome corona and returned to your daily life, but the background music at the beginning is inserted into your ear.

This is the introduction of Kim Gun-mo's 'Bad Meeting'.

I didn't write the lyrics, but I used a part of the introduction as a variation for 11 seconds.

Even though North Korea is a closed society, it shows that it is already exposed to foreign cultures enough to use and process our popular songs.

Two years ago, in a joint performance between North and South Korea in Pyongyang, Bae Ji-young's song “As Shot” appeared to residents, and it was said that this song was the number one favorite song for North Korean college students.

[Lee Woo-young / Professor of North Korean Graduate School: Since the top leaders have already met our pop culture artists, it can be said that the range of South Korean culture allowed in North Korea has expanded greatly, but it is also being mixed into the official domain (it can be considered). ]

The coverage of North Korea's outside culture has already expanded considerably, such as the airing of Hallelujah's classical performances through religious TV.

Although the government media often come up with discipline in such a way that if they are deceived by outside culture, they become mentally deteriorated, but, paradoxically, this criticism is considered to reveal an aspect of North Korean society that the influx of outside culture has become common.

(Video coverage: Choi Ho-jun, Video editing: Lee Seung-yeol)