Millennial North Korea: Forbidden Media and Living Creatively with Surveillance

By: Kim, Suk-Young

North Korea may be known as the world's most secluded society, but it too has witnessed the rapid rise of new media technologies in the new millennium, including the introduction of a 3G cell phone network in 2008. In 2009, there were only 70,000 cell phones in North Korea. That number has grown tremendously in just over a decade, with over 7 million registered as of 2022. This expansion took place amid extreme economic hardship and the ensuing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503640876
• ISBN13: 9781503640870
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.9"