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Korean Woman

Cover page (No. 1. 2020)
Categories	Women's magazine
Frequency	Monthly Bimonthly
Publisher	Chosǒn Yǒsǒngsa
Founder	Socialist Women's Union of Korea
Founded	1946 (1946)
Country	North Korea
Based in	Pyongyang
Language	Korean
Website	http://www.gpsh.edu.kp/index.php/ko/newbooks/view_meta?no=497
ISSN	1727-9453
OCLC	5806090

Korean Woman (Korean: 조선녀성; MR: Chosŏn Yŏsŏng) is a monthly magazine in North Korea, founded in September 1946. 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.

History

The magazine started appearing regularly in 1947 and was published monthly until 1982 when it became bimonthly. The Socialist Women's Union also publishes an English-language equivalent called Women of Korea.

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".

References

1. Darcie Draudt (3 July 2012). "Revolutionized Woman: A Primer on the Historical Rhetoric of Women in the NK Economy". Sino-NK. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
2. 조선녀성 [Korean Woman] (in Korean). Pyongyang: Choson Yosongsa. 2008. OCLC 5806090.
3. Kim 2010, p. 754.
4. Kaku Sechiyama (2013). Patriarchy in East Asia: A Comparative Sociology of Gender. Translated by James Smith. Leiden: BRILL. p. 268. ISBN 978-90-04-24777-2.
5. Amanda Anderson (2016). "Mothers and Labourers: North Korea's Gendered Labour Force in Women in Korea" (PDF). Journal of History and Cultures. 6: 14–36. ISSN 2051-221X.
6. Tatiana Gabroussenko (2011). "From Developmentalist to Conservationist Criticism: The New Narrative of South Korea in North Korean Propaganda". Journal of Korean Studies. 16 (1): 36. doi:10.1353/jks.2011.0008. ISSN 2158-1665. S2CID 145152373.

Works cited

• Kim, Suzy (2010). "Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 52 (4): 742–767. doi:10.1017/S0010417510000459.

• Magazines established in 1946
• Magazines published in North Korea
• Women's magazines
• Women in North Korea
• Socialist magazines
• Monthly magazines
• Bi-monthly magazines