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Chapter 1
The Culture and
Ideology of the DPRK
Han S. Park
The concepts of culture and ideology have been used often without definitional clarification. In order to examine the nature and role of juche in North Korea in a systematic way, one must begin with such an explanation.
Conceptual Clarifications
A culture is largely seen as a system of norms, values, and beliefs that characterizes the symbolic identity of a people. It is the affect system, as opposed to the cognition system, that is deeply imbedded in the people’s psychological predisposition and that determines their “personality,” or basic collective traits. A culture, then, is much like a civilization. It is