Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950

During the founding of North Korea, competing visions of an ideal modern state proliferated. Independence and democracy were touted by all, but plans for the future of North Korea differed in their ideas about how everyday life should be organized. Daily life came under scrutiny as the primary arena for social change in public and private life. In Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945–195 0 , Kim examines the revolutionary events that shaped people's lives in the development of the