김정은시대 북한문화예술교육에 대한 분석적 고찰: 문화예술 행정체계와 정책을 중심으로

Abstract

This study identifies North Korea’s arts education-related policies and cultural policy structure in the era of Kim Jong-un. In the aftermath of the “Universal 12-year Compulsory Education System” in 2012, North Korea seems to be pursuing internationalized quality of education focusing on the integrated education pedagogy. This research seeks to understand the policy structure of arts education in North Korea. Findings of this research can contribute to providing some informative and useful information for the unification process of Korea. American cultural policy researcher, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B45">Dewey (2008)</xref> claims that for comparative research of arts education policy, it is necessary to analyze a county’s administrative structure and policy process together. By adopting Dewey’s view and research framework, this study analyzes North Korea’s cultural administrative structure and policy related with arts education. Collected data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. This study finds that North Korea’s arts education policy has partially adopted concepts of creativity development, integrated education, and increasing public access to arts participation. However, due to North Korea’s top policy priority, “prestigious socialist country,” and Chairman Kim Jong-un’s centralized command in its socialist setting, values and goals of arts educations of their terms are quite different from those pursued in South Korea and other democratic societies.