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Aegukka
"" ( Chosŏn'gŭl: ), officially translated as "Patriotic Song", is the national anthem of North Korea. It was composed in 1945 as a patriotic song celebrating independence from Japanese occupation and was adopted as the state anthem in 1947. Performance of this anthem is prohibited in South Korea under the National Security Act. Etymology "Aegukka" is a Romanized transliteration of "The Patriotic Song"; the song is also known by its incipit ''Ach'imŭn pinnara'' or "Let Morning Shine" or in its Korean name or alternatively as the "Song of a Devotion to a Country". The ''Encyclopedia of Korean Culture'' defines the word "Aegukka" as "the song to wake up the mind to love the country". "Aegukka" in itself is differentiated from a national anthem. While a national anthem or ''gukka'' () is an official symbol of the state, ''aegukka'' refers to any song, official or unofficial, that contains patriotic fervor towards its country, such as Hungary's " Szózat" or the U.S. " The St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Won-gyun
Kim Won-gyun (; 2 January 1917 – 5 April 2002) was a North Korean composer and politician. He is considered one of the most prominent, if not the most celebrated, composer of North Korea. He composed "Aegukka" — the national anthem of the country — and " Song of General Kim Il-sung", in addition to revolutionary operas. Career In his youth, Kim Won-gyun attended high school but dropped out after three grades. After the liberation of Korea, he wrote his first composition: "March of Korea". Before his musical career, Kim had been only "a farmer who just happened to write he'Song of General Kim Il Sung. That was in 1946, very early into the cult of personality of Kim Il-sung; the song was the first work of art that verifiably mentions Kim Il Sung, then leader of Workers' Party of North Korea, one of precursors of WPK. After the success of the song, he was asked to compose "Aegukka". As a musician, he was initially self-taught but went to Moscow in order to stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders China and Russia to the north at the Yalu River, Yalu (Amnok) and Tumen River, Tumen rivers, and South Korea to the south at the Korean Demilitarized Zone, Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The country's western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eastern border is defined by the Sea of Japan. North Korea, like South Korea, claims to be the sole legitimate government of the entire peninsula and List of islands of North Korea, adjacent islands. Pyongyang is the capital and largest city. The Korean Peninsula was first inhabited as early as the Lower Paleolithic period. Its Gojoseon, first kingdom was noted in Chinese records in the early 7th century BCE. Following the unification of the Three Kingdoms of Korea into Unified Silla, Silla and Balhae in the late 7th century, Korea was ruled by the G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song Of General Kim Il Sung
The "Song of General Kim Il Sung" (Korean: 김일성 장군의 노래) is a North Korean marching song composed by Kim Won-gyun in 1946. As a part of an ongoing cult of personality, the song praising Kim Il Sung, North Korea's " Eternal President", who died in 1994, is still widely played in the country. It is often considered to be the ''de facto'' national anthem in North Korea. The song is a four-square march. It features paired two bar phrases in an A-B-A form, with dotted rhythms. Percussion and brass instrumentation is intended to enhance the revolutionary tone of the song. The song, composed in 1946, is the earliest known work of art mentioning Kim Il Sung, and thus can be said to mark the beginning of his personality cult. In the early 1980s Kim Jong Il began promoting the song and it has since replaced "Aegukka", the national anthem, as the most important song and the '' de facto'' anthem played in public gatherings in the country. North Koreans typically know the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pak Se-yong
Pak Se-yong (; 7 July 1902 – 28 February 1989) was a North Korean poet and politician, best known for writing the lyrics of "Aegukka", the national anthem of North Korea. Early life Pak was a native of Dumo-ri, Outer old Seoul in what is now Seongdong District, Seoul, South Korea. When he was in his third year in , he made a Doujinshi ''Saenuri(New world)'' that was shared among people who shared his dreams as a person involved in literature, and after graduating he enrolled in Yeonhi professional school (Modern day Yonsei University) but he soon dropped out and studied in Shanghai. In Shanghai, he worked as the china correspondent for Yeomgunsa (焰群社), a socialist cultural organization that was formed in Korea by song young lee ho and lee jeok hyo, whose aim was to research and distribute culture that liberates the proletariat. Eventually, after joining the Korean Artists' Proletarian Federation in 1925, he started writing progressive poetry. From 1923 to 1943, he edited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aegukga
"" (), often translated as "The Patriotic Song", is the national anthem of South Korea. It was adopted in 1948, the year the country's government was founded. Its music was composed in the 1930s and arranged most recently in 2018; its lyrics date back to the 1890s. The lyrics of "Aegukga" were originally set to the music of the Scottish song " Auld Lang Syne" before Ahn Eak-tai composed a unique melody specifically for it in 1936. Before the founding of South Korea, the version set to the music of "Auld Lang Syne" was sung, as well as when Korea was under Japanese rule by dissidents. The version set to the melody composed by Ahn Eak-tai was adopted as the national anthem of the Korean exile government, which existed during Korea's occupation by Japan from the early 1910s to the mid-1940s. "Aegukga" has four verses, but on most occasions only the first one, followed by the chorus, is sung when performed publicly at events such as baseball games and soccer matches. Etymology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korean Central Television
Korean Central Television (KCTV; ) is a North Korean television service operated by the Korean Central Broadcasting Committee, a state-owned broadcaster in North Korea. It is broadcast terrestrially via the Pyongyang TV Tower in Moranbong-guyok, Pyongyang, streamed via the government-run internet television service Manbang, and also uplinked via satellite. History KCTV was established on 1 September 1953, as Pyongyang Television after the Korean War ended. Kim Il Sung personally envisioned that the time was ripe for television broadcasting in North Korea, but this was not yet to happen. Thus, the young service began an 8-year period of preparation for commencement of television broadcasts, with the help of the national government. The station later was renamed as Central Television Broadcasting System in 1961, and conducted on 1 September the same year its first test broadcasts. The CTBS-DPRK officially began operations on 3 March 1963, at 19:00 (7:00 pm) KST based in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NK News
NK News is an American subscription-based news website that provides stories and analysis about North Korea. Established in 2011, it is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea with reporters in Washington, D.C., and London. Reporting is based on information collected from in-country sources, recently returned western visitors to North Korea, stories filed by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), interviews with defectors, and reports published by NGOs and western governments. The site's founder and Managing Director is Chad O'Carroll, a former employee of the German Marshall Fund, who has written on North Korea and North Korea issues for ''The Daily Telegraph''. Regular features * ''Ask a North Korean'': a forum whereby readers can submit questions about daily life in North Korea which are answered by a panel of four defectors. The column covering Jang Song-thaek's execution received particular attention. * ''Expert Survey'': in which various Korean and Western experts on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Family (North Korea)
The Kim Family, officially the Mount Paektu Bloodline (), named for Paektu Mountain, in the ideological discourse of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), and often referred to as the Kim Dynasty after the Cold War's end, is a three-generation lineage of North Korean leadership, descending from the country's founder and first Supreme Leader (North Korean title), leader, Kim Il Sung. Kim Il Sung came to rule the north in 1948, after the end of Korea under Japanese rule, Japanese rule Division of Korea, split the region in 1945. Following Death and state funeral of Kim Il Sung, his death in 1994, Kim Il Sung's role as supreme leader was passed to his son, Kim Jong Il, and then in 2011 to his grandson, Kim Jong Un. The three served as leaders of the WPK, and as North Korea's supreme leaders since the state's establishment in 1948. The North Korean government denies that there is a personality cult surrounding the Kim family, describing the people's devotion to the family as a person ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republic Of China (1912–1949)
The Republic of China (ROC) began on 1 January 1912 as a sovereign state in mainland China following the 1911 Revolution, which overthrew the Manchu people, Manchu-led Qing dynasty and ended China's imperial China, imperial history. From 1927, the Kuomintang (KMT) Northern expedition, reunified the country and initially ruled it as a one-party state with Nanjing as the national capital. In 1949, Nationalist government, the KMT-led government was defeated in the Chinese Civil War and lost control of the mainland to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The CCP Proclamation of the People's Republic of China, established the People's Republic of China (PRC) while the ROC was forced to Retreat of the government of the Republic of China to Taiwan, retreat to Taiwan; the ROC retains control over the Taiwan Area, and political status of Taiwan, its political status remains disputed. The ROC is recorded as a founding member of both the League of Nations and the United Nations, and previous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song Of General Kim Jong Il
The "Song of General Kim Jong Il" ( ''Kimjongil janggunui nolae'') is a marching song from North Korea. It was composed by Sol Myong-sun (, 1936–2012) and the words were written by Sin Un-ho (, 1941 – March 24, 2020) in 1997. The song praises the " Eternal General Secretary", Kim Jong Il (who ruled from 1994 until 2011) as a part of his cult of personality. During the presidency of Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il helped to run his father's own personality cult. Although the "Song of General Kim Jong Il" is not as widely popular as the "Song of General Kim Il Sung" (nor was his cult as large as his father's), it is also played regularly in North Korea. The song is played by the North Korean state television at the start of broadcasts each day. It was also played after the telecast of Kim Jong Il's memorial service on December 29, 2011. also plays a chime version of the first two lines of the song as its interval signal at the start of broadcasts. According to North Korean sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
