In the recent decade, the Korean industry of Music K-pop, and Art has flourished and risen like a bright sun. BTS and other South Korean music, movies, and dramas are captivating the hearts of the world and young North Koreans as well. Their impact is understood as a danger to Kim’s command of society.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has categorized K-pop as vicious cancer that has undignified the youth of North Korea. Based on his thoughts and approaches, he is commanding stricter consequences on populations who are overwhelming South Korean movies, K-dramas, and K-pop videos. Kim has well-ordered his government to blow down on these so-called anti-socialist inclinations.
The state media has condemned the extent of anti-socialist influence which according to North Korea has reportedly dishonored the attire, hairstyles, speeches, and behaviors of young North Koreans.
North Korea has been one of the world’s most oppressive authoritarian regimes for more than 70 years and is reportedly the epitome of the worst human rights crisis.
According to Kim Jong-un,
“The cultural invasion from South Korea has exceeded a tolerable level.”
The North Korean President believes that if the inclinations of North Korea towards K-pop are left unrestricted, the people of North Korea might jump to the consideration of the South and substitute Korea to replace the North.
K-pop fans especially the BTS armies are such legit fan following and are like a house on fire social-media knowledge and have exercised their control and craze against the absurdities and issues relating to mental health, discrimination, and, human rights crisis internationally.
Kim familiarized a series of new laws in December that elevated the sentence for watching or possessing South Korean entertainment from five years of hard labor to 15 years in a labor camp.
North Korean state media warned,
“If these influences are left unchecked, it would make North Korea crumble like a damp wall. Those caught smuggling South Korean content are at risk of receiving even harsher punishments, including the death penalty.”
After captivating enormous fans around the world, South Korean K-pop culture and enticing influences have crossed the threshold of the final frontier of North Korea, where the mounting influence has provoked the leader of the tyrannical state to announce a new culture war to stop it.
North Korean state media has commended its young people against using colloquial speech from South Korea and voiced them to speak North Korea’s standard language.
There were also additional admonitions in North Korea’s official newspaper against adopting the fashions, hairstyles, and music of South Korea. It strained that Korean based on the Pyongyang dialect is grander and those young people should use it appropriately.
North Korea believes that foreign encouragement is seen as a threat to the regime.
Computers, text messages, music players, and notebooks are currently being investigated for South Korean content, k-pop and accents.
North Korea has often smashed out against an ideological and cultural invasion. All the radios and televisions are predetermined to obtain government broadcasts only. The government has jammed people into using the global internet.
Disciplinary squads patrol the streets, stopping men with long hair and women with skirts that are well-thought-out too short or trousers deemed too tight. The only hair dye available is black.
However, K-pop is all about the charm that differs the North Korean rules and policies.
Sources
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/world/asia/kim-jong-un-k-pop.html
https://variety.com/2021/music/news/kim-jong-un-k-pop-vicious-cancer-1234994620/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57881108
https://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-warns-young-people-155126666.html
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20210715000999
