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  2. North Korean cult of personality - Wikipedia

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    The Mansudae Grand Monument in Pyongyang in 2014 depicting Kim Il Sung (left) and Kim Jong Il (right), with visitors paying homage to the statues. [1]The North Korean cult of personality surrounding the Kim family [2] has existed in North Korea for decades and can be found in many examples of North Korean culture. [3]

  3. Pulgasari - Wikipedia

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    Pulgasari [a] is an epic monster film [i] Shin Sang-ok directed and produced in 1985 during his abduction in North Korea.A co-production between North Korea, Japan, and China, it is considered a remake of Bulgasari, a lost 1962 South Korean film that also depicts the eponymous creature from Korean folklore.

  4. List of cults of personality - Wikipedia

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    The peer-reviewed academic journal North Korean Review, published by the Institute for North Korean Studies at the University of Detroit Mercy in Detroit, Michigan, United States, reports that "Like his father Kim Jong-il during his lifetime, Kim Jong-un has so far avoided a cult of personality around himself that would include statues, street ...

  5. Abduction of Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee - Wikipedia

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    Shin directed seven films for Kim from 1984 until 1985: An Emissary of No Return, Love, Love, My Love, Runaway, Breakwater, Salt, The Tale of Shim Chong, and most famously, Pulgasari. In 1986, Choi and Shin escaped from North Korean supervision to a US embassy while in Vienna. [4] Under Kim's orders, Shin's films were banned in North Korea ...

  6. Korean folklore - Wikipedia

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    The village cult is an extension of the worship of household gods. The village is an extension of the family and a place where relatives live, although villages can also contain people who are not involved in the worship of the patron gods.

  7. We Will Go to Mount Paektu - Wikipedia

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    The song took the center stage in Moranbong Band's concert on 28 April 2015. [2] The song became one of the biggest hits of 2015 in North Korea. [4] Other North Korean groups that have performed the song are the State Merited Chorus [5] and the Kim Il-sung Youth League Art Propaganda Squad.

  8. Songbun - Wikipedia

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    According to the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea and the American Enterprise Institute, it is based on the political, social, and economic background of one's direct ancestors as well as the behavior of their relatives, songbun is used to classify North Korean citizens into three primary castes—core, wavering, and hostile—in ...

  9. Cheondoism - Wikipedia

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    Cheondoism (spelled Chondoism in North Korea; [1] Korean: 천도교; lit. Religion of the Celestial Way) is a 20th-century Korean pantheistic religion, based on the 19th-century Donghak religious movement founded by Choe Je-u and codified under Son Byong-hi. [2]