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In a previous post I reviewed some recent research coming out of KDI on the distribution of income in North Korea. A team from KINU has put out a new study based on 41 in-depth interviews with North Korean refugees on quality of life issues that can be read as a kind of companion piece. [...]
In honor of Marcus Noland’s recent post inspired by The Clash, Rolling Stone Magazine’s 28th greatest band of all time, here’s a tribute to the 26th greatest band of all time. Here’s hoping The Ramones had North Korea in mind in their song titles as well. Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World In one of [...]
To welcome in the new year, let’s see that’s Juche 102. I thought that I would take a quick stroll through some of the stories we blogged on or at least meant to blog on in the past year. First, as even the most casual reader of this blog knows, we have a thing for [...]
To most people who visit the Peterson Institute website, the word “depression” probably conjures up mental images of the unemployed standing in bread lines. I think that is how A.P. Carter meant it; I am less certain about Uncle Tupelo’s Gen X fans or the guys who started the music magazine. As Yoonok Chang, Steph Haggard, [...]
The other day at the Marked for Life release event, during the question and answer period Charles Hawkins asked me about the songbun of market participants. It is an interesting question with no obvious answer (to me at least). “Market participants” encompasses a lot of people—at the high end–large scale production and wholesaling–one presumably has [...]
The issue of trafficking of North Korean women in China is probably the most appalling aspect of the refugee issue. We touched on it in Witness to Transformation and recently noted in a post that the migration patterns of men and women differ, with women spending more time in China. There are a number of [...]
It’s been so long since I wrote one of these, and have such a backlog of material, I don’t even know where to start. Well, let’s start with some important stuff. The North Korean penal system plays a significant role in Witness to Transformation and is an important ongoing concern of this blog. In his [...]
At dinner with some State Department and embassy staff a few years back in Seoul, one of the State Department folks confidently asserted that three-quarters of the refugees leaving North Korea were women. “How could you know?” I asked. The diplomat frowned and pointed to the statistics on refugees entering South Korea. But the number [...]
A couple of weeks ago I blogged on a recent paper by Jeon Woo-taek, Jung Seung-ho, Kim Byung-yeon, and Yu Shi-eun on the labor market experiences of female North Korean refugees in South Korea. Steph Haggard and I also have a paper coming out on North Korean women, though our paper focuses on their experiences [...]
Today at the semi-annual Asian Economic Policy Review conference, Kim Byung-yeon presented the preliminary draft of a paper co-authored with Jeon Woo-taek, Jung Seung-ho, and Yu Shi-eun on the labor market experiences of female North Korean refugees in South Korea. The paper, based on a survey of the 2009 employment experiences of 289 women who [...]
