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Chondoist Religion in North Korea: Selected Aspects

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Levi N.

Athenaeum. Polskie Studia Politologiczne

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2023

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vol. 80

227-238

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Czondoizm to dwudziestowieczna koreańska religia panteistyczna, oparta na dziewiętnastowiecznym ruchu Tonghak. Pierwotnie czondoizm był uznawany za religię narodową Korei, w odróżnieniu od buddyzmu i chrześcijaństwa. Będąc ruchem patriotycznym, Czondoizm mógł się rozwinąć w Korei Północnej, kiedy ta została wyzwolona spod okupacji japońskiej (1910–1945). Pomimo charakteru reżimu północnokoreańskiego czondoizm jest nadal obecny w społeczeństwie Korei Północnej. Podobnie jak inne grupy religijne w Korei Północnej, dzisiejsza religia czondoistyczna służy celom politycznym w tym kraju, ponieważ Czondoistyczna Partia Czongu należy do Demokratycznego Frontu na rzecz Zjednoczenia Ojczyzny. Trudno też nie doceniać wpływu czondoizmu na społeczeństwo Korei Północnej.

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Chondoism is a 20th-century Korean pantheistic religion, based on the 19th-century Tonghak movement. Originally, Chondoism was recognized as the national religion of Korea, unlike Buddhism and Christianity. Being a patriotic movement, Chondoism was able to develop itself in North Korea when North Korea was liberated from the Japanese occupation (1910–1945). Despite the nature of the North Korean regime, Chondoism is still present in the North Korean society. Like other religious groups in North Korea, the Chondoist religion today serves political aims in this country as the Chondoist Chongu Party belongs to the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea. On the other side, its influence cannot be neglected when understanding the society of North Korea.

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A historical approach to the leadership of the Organisation and Guidance Department of the Workers’ Party of Korea

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Levi N.

Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia

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2019

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issue 32

99-116

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North Korean political organisations have produced a system which is automatically connected to the cult of the Kim family. The paper assumes that North Korea is ruled by an alliance of people affiliated with Kim Il-sung family and two political organisations – the Organisation and Guidance Department and the Personal Secretariat, both of which are sub-branches of the Party Central Committee.

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Kim Jong Il: a film director who ran a country

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Levi N.

Journal of Modern Science

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2015

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issue 2(25)

155-166

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Th e considered text aims at explaining the passion of the former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (1942-2011) for cinema. Th e paper will proceed in three steps: Explaining the Cinema Passion of Kim Jong Il, outlining its realizations in North Korea. Th e third party will focus on the kidnapping of Choi Seun Hee and Shin Sang Ok. Kim Jong Il wanted that all fi lms were made according to the North Korean ideology for which he was responsible. Starting from the mid 1970’s, Kim Jong Il implemented cinema in his strategical polical approach through some of the political departments of the Korea Workers’ Party. North Korean movies were supposed to strengthen and legitimate the power of the Kim family and the image of North Korea abroad. As far as media were under the control of the state organization Kim Jong Il was a director, a producer, even a costume maker, a screenwriter, cameraman, a sound engineer and he was also seen as a fi lm theorist. What has to be enlighten is the fact that until the his death, Kim Jong Il was aff ected by cinema.

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Chondoist Religion in North Korea: Selected Aspects

A historical approach to the leadership of the Organisation and Guidance Department of the Workers’ Party of Korea

Kim Jong Il: a film director who ran a country