{"id":9057,"date":"2022-11-13T20:17:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T20:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/frog\/?p=9057"},"modified":"2022-11-15T17:14:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T17:14:14","slug":"drawings-in-the-north-korean-magazine-hwalsal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2022\/11\/drawings-in-the-north-korean-magazine-hwalsal\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawings in the North Korean Magazine Hwalsal\/Hwasal"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been watching Twitter not-so-slowly go into decline and it has made me reflect on\u00a0 how, increasingly over the last decade, I’ve been sharing fun sources by twitter thread than on the Frog in a Well blog here. I\u2019ve since made the move to Mastodon (@konrad@coop.social) but for whatever reason, that new home seems like a better place to share links to blog entries instead than confusing threads with short posts. I\u2019ve downloaded a backup of all my old tweets and thought I would start picking out some of the source related threads I’ve posted there to share again here in the form of blog posts.<\/p>\n

This first post will share a series of images I came across back in May, 2021 while browsing the issues of the North Korean journal\u00a0Hwalsal\u00a0<\/em>(\ud65c\uc0b4)\/Hwasal <\/em>(\ud654\uc0b4) <\/strong>or “The Arrow”, which can be found in the wonderful Library of Congress digitized North Korean Serials collection<\/a>.<\/strong> This publication (looks like Hwalsal \ud65c\uc0b4\/\u5f13\u77e2 is a variant and was common in Hamgy\u014fng dialect, the journal switched to Hwasal<\/em> in 1959) is full of political artwork and slogans, a few of which I have shared below.<\/p>\n

The reactionary author (\ud65c\uc0b4 1956.5):<\/p>\n

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Taking out the paperwork-ist’s compost (\ud65c\uc0b4 1957.3):<\/p>\n

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The blindness of the “Empiricist’s planning\u201d (\ud654\uc0b4 1959.4):<\/p>\n

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The subjectivist puts together its agricultural plan (\ud654\uc0b4 1960.3):<\/p>\n

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Making imperialism puke out its colonies (\ud654\uc0b4 1959.2):<\/p>\n

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North and South Korea compared (\ud654\uc0b4 1961.9):<\/p>\n

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At the new Pyongyang zoo, the animals will tell you if they are gifts from the Soviet Union, China, or Mongolia (\ud654\uc0b4 1959.8):<\/p>\n

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An employer who doesn’t understand the Juche ideology. All these books, and yet not a single volume on Korean history (\ud65c\uc0b4 1956.4):<\/p>\n

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Things detrimental to agriculture: locusts, sparrows, weeds, and idlers (\ud65c\uc0b4 1958.4):<\/p>\n

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“The Dogmatism Machine\u201d (\ud65c\uc0b4 1956.5)<\/p>\n

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“Life changes with every step.” (\ud65c\uc0b4 1956.2):<\/p>\n

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Aesop’s ant and the grasshopper fable put to work (\ud65c\uc0b4 1955.9):<\/p>\n

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Beware the poisonous bourgeois thought found in reactionary literature (\ud65c\uc0b4 1956.2):<\/p>\n

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Self criticism will save you from carrying your bureaucratism bundle off the cliff into the jaws of capitalist thought. (\ud65c\uc0b4 1955.5):<\/p>\n

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Stopping floods and drought by planting trees. (\ud65c\uc0b4 1954.3):<\/p>\n

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Heading to work. Yesterday vs today. (\ud65c\uc0b4 1958.12):<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve been watching Twitter not-so-slowly go into decline and it has made me reflect on\u00a0 how, increasingly over the last decade, I’ve been sharing fun sources by twitter thread than on the Frog in a Well blog here. I\u2019ve since made the move to Mastodon (@konrad@coop.social) but for whatever reason, that new home seems like…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[211,231,280],"tags":[281],"class_list":["post-9057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-korea","category-north-korea","category-posts","tag-primarysources"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1397130701800157184-E2Oa9x2WQAMUuBn-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-2m5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9057"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9081,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9057\/revisions\/9081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}