Welcome to KSA
First Meeting of Winter Quarter
Buchan (Book-han)
-Simply (Book-Han) literally means North Korea.
-Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Kim Il-Sung (1949-1994) -> Kim Jung-Il (1994-2011) -> Kim Jung-Eun (2011~)
Political system/Accessibility into the country:
Political system/Accessibility into the country:
Single Political Party + (Socialism, Communism) :
주체사상 (2013) = “self-reliance”
~the independent stance of rejecting dependence on others and using one's own powers, believing in one's own strength and displaying the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance.
Republic of Korea government regulates North Korea Communist party and their advocates as a terrorist organization and main enemy. (Because the Korean War is not yet ended since 1950, cease fired since 1953)
Language: Korean
Capital: Pyeong-Yang
Currency: Won (KPW)
Timeline: PYT(UTC +8:30)
Population: 25,281,000(2015)
GDP: $2400
Some Cultural Facts in NK
Some Cultural Facts in NK
- Internet restrictions - 53 website. There is no internet service except for special usage. Domain is .kp
- Intranet exists, but only able to access through the government facilities
- Spend 25% of GNP for military power. Which can feed their whole population without famine
- Any forms of South Korean entertainment are strictly prohibited, most common being smuggled South Korean soap operas.
- People risk being sent to manual labor camps if caught or reported to the authorities.
- Between 150,000 to 200,000 North Koreans live in prison camps, the worst for those who commit political crimes. Often offenders can have their entire extended family imprisoned with them.
- To this day, more than 12 million suffer from poverty and lack basic human needs. (Almost half of the entire population)
Word of the Day
Word of the Day
Announcements
- JSA (Monday at 5:00, Miller Hall 235)
- NASU (Monday at 5:30)
- KhSA (Monday at 7:00, AW 205)
- CSA (Tuesday at 5:00, AW 305)
- LSU (Tuesday at 5:00, Miller Hall 138)
- OSA (Tuesday at 6:00, AW 205)
- WHSA (Monday at 6:00, AW 203)
- BG (Wednesday at 5:30)
- ACC (Wednesday at 6:00)
- VSA (Wednesday at 6:00)
- SASA (Wednesday at 6:00, VU 464)
- FASA (Wednesday at 7:00, AW 304)
- MEChA (Thursday at 6:00)
- BSU (Every other Thursday at 6:00)
- (Based off of last quarter’s schedule)
- NW KhSA Conference 2018 on January 20th (applications still open -- event on Friday, Saturday, Sunday)
- 3minute and QPN dance practices