Lectures - Center for Korean Economy and K-Academics at SNU

Past and Present of North Korean Economy

•Instructor : Jea Hwan Hong
•Year : Year 2(2022-2023)
•Difficulty : Intermediate
•Target : Universal
•Field : Economy and Society
•Type : Ordinary
•Week : 12 Weeks
•Keywords
North Korean economy, Socialism, Economic reform, Marketization, Sanction, Living standard

Summary

The course aims to understand the reality of the North Korean economy. It examines the historical process by which North Korean economy developed its unique characteristics, advocating socialist planned economy, but quite different in reality. It also looks at the various aspects of the North Korean economy since 2000, and checks what it is like and how it operates today. Finally, it discusses inter-Korean economic cooperation and the possible economic landscape of a unified Korea.

Instructor

Jea Hwan Hong
1. Affiliation: Korea Institute for National Unification
2. Education: B.A. in Economics, Seoul National University
M.A. in Economics, Seoul National University
Ph.D. in Economics, Seoul National University
3. Selected Publications
North Korean Economy, Haenam, 2023 (Kor.); “Corporation's Dividend Policy of the Colonial Korea, 1934-1938,” Korean Journal of Economic Studies 62(4), 2014 (Kor.). et al.

Guidebooks

week01.pdf (2 MB)

week02.pdf (2 MB)

week03.pdf (2 MB)

week04.pdf (2 MB)

week05.pdf (2 MB)

week06.pdf (2 MB)

week07.pdf (2 MB)

week08.pdf (2 MB)

week09.pdf (2 MB)

week10.pdf (2 MB)

week11.pdf (2 MB)

week12.pdf (2 MB)

exam.pdf (357 KB)

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