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From sexual liberation to fashionable heels, new research shows how women are changing North Korea

  • Written by Bronwen Dalton, Professor, Head of Department of Management, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
From sexual liberation to fashionable heels, new research shows how women are changing North KoreaLesley Parker

Kang* was 20 years old when she left her official job as a potato researcher in North Korea. She wanted to join the women who had taken up illicit market activities, first to survive the “Arduous March” (as the famine years of the mid-1990s were known), then to build better lives for themselves and their families outside...

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