Korean Woman
{{Short description|Monthly magazine in North Korea}}
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| category = Women's magazine
| frequency = Monthly
Bimonthly
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| publisher = Chosŏn Yŏsŏngsa
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| founder = Socialist Women's Union of Korea
| founded = {{start year|1946}}
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| country = North Korea
| based = Pyongyang
| language = Korean
| website = http://www.gpsh.edu.kp/index.php/ko/newbooks/view_meta?no=497
| issn = 1727-9453
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| oclc = 5806090
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{{Infobox Korean name|title=Korean Woman|hangul=조선녀성|hanja=朝鮮女性|rr=Joseon Yeoseong|mr=Chosŏn Yŏsŏng|koreanipa=|context=north|image=|caption=}}
Korean Woman ({{korean|context=north|hangul=조선녀성|mr=Chosŏn Yŏsŏng}}) is a monthly magazine in North Korea, founded in September 1946.{{Cite web|url=https://sinonk.com/2012/07/03/revolutionized-woma/|title=Revolutionized Woman: A Primer on the Historical Rhetoric of Women in the NK Economy|author=Darcie Draudt|date=3 July 2012|website=Sino-NK|language=en-US|access-date=22 August 2019}} The magazine is the first one to be specifically dedicated to women. It is the official media outlet of the Socialist Women's Union of Korea.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ux9KAQAAIAAJ|script-title=ko:조선녀성|date=2008|location=Pyongyang|publisher=Choson Yosongsa|language=ko|trans-title=Korean Woman|oclc=5806090}}
History
The magazine started appearing regularly in 1947 and was published monthly until 1982 when it became bimonthly.{{sfn|Kim|2010|p=754}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GR0zAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA268|title=Patriarchy in East Asia: A Comparative Sociology of Gender|author=Kaku Sechiyama|publisher=BRILL|year=2013|isbn=978-90-04-24777-2|location=Leiden|page=268|translator=James Smith}} The Socialist Women's Union also publishes an English-language equivalent called Women of Korea.{{Cite journal|url=https://historyandcultures.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/anderson.pdf|title=Mothers and Labourers: North Korea's Gendered Labour Force in Women in Korea|author=Amanda Anderson|date=2016|journal=Journal of History and Cultures|volume=6|issn=2051-221X|pages=14–36}}
Contents
The magazine mainly promotes the achievements and the working and living conditions of Korean women, usually accompanied by large-scale color photos. In 1976, the newspaper published an anti-South Korea propaganda poster titled "Two opposite realities".{{cite journal|author=Tatiana Gabroussenko|title=From Developmentalist to Conservationist Criticism: The New Narrative of South Korea in North Korean Propaganda|journal=Journal of Korean Studies|volume=16|issue=1|year=2011|page=36|issn=2158-1665|doi=10.1353/jks.2011.0008|s2cid=145152373 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UGM-AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA36|url-access=subscription}}
References
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- {{cite journal|first=Suzy |last=Kim|date=2010|title=Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950|journal=Comparative Studies in Society and History|volume=52|issue=4|pages=742–767|doi=10.1017/S0010417510000459|doi-access=free}}
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{{Media specialized on news and/or analysis about North Korea}}
{{Women in North Korean politics}}
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Category:Magazines established in 1946