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The word 동무 tongmu/dongmu that is used to mean "friend" in the North was originally used across the whole of Korea, but after the division of Korea, North Korea began to use it as a translation of the Russian term товарищ (friend, comrade), and since then, the word has come to mean "comrade" in the South as well and has fallen out of ...
The Korea Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering Korean studies. It was established in 1961 and is published by the Academy of Korean Studies. The editor-in-chief is Myoun-hoi Do (Daejeon University). The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Arts and Humanities Citation Index. [1]
North Korea's approach to vocabulary management, consisting of maintenance, distribution, and control, is executed based on a centralized, top-down policy, which fundamentally differs from South Korea's approach. [6] Vocabulary maintenance in North Korea principally targets words of foreign origin, classified into Sino-Korean words and loan words.
As of 2015, the sole manufacturer of computers in North Korea was Morning Panda, a government-run company manufacturing a few thousand computers a year. [6] In April 2016, North Korea began to block Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and South Korean websites, due to "its concern with the spread of online information". [24]
Voice of Korea (Korean: 조선의 소리) is the international broadcasting service of North Korea. It broadcasts primarily information in Chinese, Spanish, German, English, French, Russian, Japanese and Arabic. [1] Until 2002 it was known as Radio Pyongyang. The interval signal is identical to that of Korean Central Television.
After the fire, The Korea Times managed to publish an abbreviated edition on February 28. During the restoration period, a number of readers and foreign organizations, including the American Embassy and the U.S. Operations Mission (a U.S. aid mission), either loaned or donated typewriters to The Korea Times. The newspaper took refuge in a ...
The Government of South Korea set December 31, 2012 as the deadline for digital conversion in South Korea. From 2013, South Korea will convert from the analogue broadcasting to the digital broadcasting.(This date coincides with the United Kingdom conversion date.) According to DTV Korea, the rate of digital TV sets in use is about 60% (2010). [15]
Korea JoongAng Daily is one of the three main English newspapers in South Korea along with The Korea Times and The Korea Herald. [5] The newspaper is published with a daily edition of The New York Times and it is located within the main offices of the JoongAng Ilbo in Sangam-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul.