{"id":4278,"date":"2019-07-18T13:22:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T04:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.01.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang\/?p=4278"},"modified":"2019-07-25T10:30:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T01:30:26","slug":"cinema-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.02.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang\/2019\/07\/society-economy\/cinema-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"\uff1cInside N. Korea\uff1e Cinema Sins: 10 Students Arrested, Condemned Before Crowd of 500 for Watching Foreign Films"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Reference Photo) A middle school student in Hyesan City. Her red coat looks to be influenced by Chinese and South Korean fashion trends. Photographed in October, 2013 by ASIAPRESS<\/p><\/div>\n

\u25c6 Kim Jong-un regime aims to block South Korean culture<\/h2>\n

In the northern city of Hyesan in Ryanggang Province, 16 people, including 10 secondary school students, were dragged before a crowd of 500 mobilized students to be publicly condemned.<\/p>\n

According to a reporting partner living in Hyesan City, speaking with ASIAPRESS on July 6, the \u201cpublic denouncement rally\u201d was held on July 2 in the downtown plaza facing the Hyesan Theater.<\/p>\n

After speaking with a contact who was mobilized for the event, the reporting partner told ASIAPRESS, \u201cAbout 500 middle school students and local residents were mobilized. 7 men and 9 women were dragged before the crowd- about 10 of them were secondary school students. They were condemned for either watching, copying, lending, or selling American and South Korean dramas and movies. A police official read out their charges, explaining it that they have arrested a suspect followed by one by one.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the \u201cpublic denouncement rally\u201d, officials labeled South Korean dramas as \u201cfalse propaganda\u201d that spread illusions of decadent, rotten capitalism, acting as poison in a sound socialist system.<\/p>\n

The reporting partner continued, \u201cThe officials say that people who watch the dramas believe that they are seeing is true. And that, therefore, we must establish a full-scale reporting system for preventing this phenomenon from extending its roots in our society. They stressed that parents must also educate their children properly so that they do not go down this bad path.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 16 accused are said to be currently under further investigation and will be punished according to the severity of their crimes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the parents of the accused are party members, they will be expelled from the party and from their workplaces as well,\u201d said the reporting partner.<\/p>\n

There was a major incident earlier this year, in March, when it was discovered that young North Koreans in Musan County were secretly watching and distributing the hit South Korean film, \u201cA Taxi Driver\u201d. Since then, the Kim Jong-un regime has pushed for inter-Korean dialogue while maintaining a strict attitude towards the penetration and spread of South Korean culture. (Kang Ji-won)<\/p>\n

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