In the United States of America, everyone has freedom of speech. In other countries, the people aren 't allow to speak about their beliefs. They may face punishments or death. Artist and writers are finding new ways to speak out against totalitarianism and dictatorial governments. They 're challenging the government using art. People have different perspectives on art. Some artists see their work all about social change. For others art is just a way to express themselves and doesn 't need a social or political drive. Should foundations fund artists to create the art they want to make because artists are valuable to society or should they fund only work that promotes social change? Protest art on the streets may be as powerful as Pablo …show more content…
North Korea is famously known as a communist country.Propaganda is everywhere. Murals romanticizing the Korean leaders can be found literally everywhere. Propaganda vans drive around the towns and loudspeakers blare from 5am to 11pm. Sun Mu trained as an artist in North Korea. His job was to paint propaganda posters that glorified the country 's ruling dynasty. He then had a change of heart and became a North Korean defector artist, turning on the same people who taught him how to create propaganda. Since then he 's used the same artistic style he learned in his homeland to criticize those same leaders. He fled in 1998 to South Korea leaving some family behind. He left to escape food shortage. Since he left family behind in South Korea he does not show his face. Sun Mu is his alias. One of Sun Mu most controversial piece is on the floor of a art gallery. There spread is a paper painted with the names Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il over the concrete floor of the art gallery. The sheets are at the gallery 's entrance so that in order to view his work visitors must step on the names of North Korea 's late leaders. Stepping on the names of the leaders he spent much of his life looking up to. In I Am Sun Mu, a documentary about him, Sun Mu says he isn 't scared. But he says he still has mixed feelings about degrading the leaders, he was raised to look up to. "Every time I step on those names, I feel like I shouldn 't. I was taught not to disrespect them, and that 's still …show more content…
In China, young people who are unhappy with Hong Kong’s government are protesting using their art. Hong Kong’s street artists have expressed their political views with posters, stickers and stencil graffiti. The art is meant to attack some of the city’s most important politicians and business leaders. Henry Tang Ying-yen, Hong Kong’s government chief secretary can be seen on Barack Obama’s “Hope” campaign poster. It shows the government’s chief secretary laughing, with horns on his head and the Chinese characters for “kill” printed on his forehead. “Devil” is written at the bottom, in English. Alongside is the chinese short phrase “Political reform killer”. The art was influenced by the chief secretary’s mockery when asked about China’s wealth gap. “We want to have more of a message, to say something about society and the Hong Kong people, I think it’s good that nowadays young people are quite concerned about their city, and they’re trying to protest in a more creative way, with posters and art, not just marching in the street. Street art is a way to get the message out” said Vi, one of the artist responsible for the the poster. Vi is part of the local street art crew Start from Zero. They’re were mostly known for black-and-white stencil art
Not only are they similar by means of monitoring and control over the public, they also both have nuclear weapons and a knack for ‘vaporizing’ people in order to maintain a controlled image. The dictator of North Korea is notorious for eliminating anybody in his way, “Kim has rid himself of 300-plus officials during his five years at the helm. He notably had his own uncle, Jang Song Thaek, executed for disobeying orders and building his own power base” (Fifield). By ruling his country with concentrated terror, Kim Jong Un is constantly insuring his correctness and superiority over everyone with the use of direct militant tyranny and fear, which is a synonym of Big Brother and the technique used to keep the Party in
Beginning as a proxy war, the conflict in Korea would have the nation divided at the 38th parallel as agreed by the United States and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Until the years of 1945 to 1950, as both of the world’s greatest superpowers funded and supported the sides which shared their view. Espousing the views of communism and fighting in the Soviet Union’s stead was Kim Il-sung organized and created the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea while the United States sunk their support for the more southern Korea’s government known as the Republic of Korea led by nationalist Syngman Rhee (Schaller 980). The two Korean governments vied for total control and
Matthew Rabadi Civil Liberties and Multiculturalism Professor Szobonya 10/24/95 First Amendment Research Paper: America Vs. North Korea There are many societal problems in todays world. These problems can range from poverty, crime, to even human right violations. The United States serves as a model country, where many of these problems are not seen or handled with quality efforts.
Book Review I decided to do my review on “Nothing to Envy ordinary lives in North Korea” by Barbara Demick. After reading this book and seeing what they people went through in North Korea at the time made me grateful for the life I have now. The author intake over 15 year time length help better understand the social problems in North Korea that evolved over time. There resources was extremely limited especially when it came to the famine. The reason I am stating this first is because this was an important part of the book.
NK’s cultural aspects are also impacted by the military composed of the government and
The values of North Korean society are further demonstrated through the way in which men and women are portrayed. There are clear gender roles established at the beginning as Un is seen by Gyong Chan and Nam Chol, the chauffeur for the head of the research institute, as bossy and overdramatic when she brings them to Traffic Controller Office for breaking the traffic laws. Even though they broke the rules, they don’t believe they need to punished for it and are visibly annoyed when she punishes them for their actions. Un is in a role of power in the film, but that power is repeatedly undermined throughout the film. When her mother finds out that Un ticketed a family friend, she questions her decision and suggests to her daughter that she try
Furthermore, there is another similar dictatorship in North Korea in today’s world. The supreme leader of the country is named Kim Jong-un, and he controls everything that occurs. This is in close relation to El Jefe in Before We Were Free because they both have absolute power over the citizens. Just like in the novel, there are many people in the world that disagree with what Kim Jong-un is doing.
Kim Jong Un uses censorship on media. He controls the news, what people search up, etc. He lets people have no privacy and controls their lives. One example that proves this is Kim Jong-un has his police force go house-to-house to search for illegal DVDs, movies , shows , Etc that 's he does not want people to see or have. He does not want people to see the outside world.
In North Korea everything is controlled by the government. There is no freedom of speech and if someone opposes Kim Il-Sung, they would be executed. Similarly in Animal Farm, any animal that spoke against Napoleon would be called a traitor and then the animal would be executed. In North Korea there were also given the illusion of freedom but they didn’t really have it because they could pick their own president even though there was only one person running. This is similar to Animal Farm because after Napoleon kicked Snowball out of the farm, he declared himself the leader of Animal Farm with no opposition.
From building statues in the nation’s capital to parading the birthday of Kim Il Sung. (country studies) The current supreme leader Kim Jong-Un of North Korea continues to exhibit a strong sense of censorship around the country. The government issues every household television and radio sets pre-tuned to a government network. Schools and universities will only use the intranet, which is a watered down version of the
Yeonmi Park was born in Hyesan, North Korea on October 4, 1993. The year after birth, the founder, Kim ll-Sung died at the same time the Great Famine occurred. Even though Yeonmi’s father was able to keep his family from suffering the worst of the famine, Yeonmi still witnessed horrific scenes. She saw, in particular, the bodies of the people who were starving. In 2007, Yeonmi and her mother went over the border to China to search for her sister who escaped years before and her father chose to stay behind.
It shows us who we really are, both good and bad, as a community.” (theConversation.com) This kind of graffiti, produced by artists like Banksy, tries to make a kind of statement or tries to beautify places that in need of
Artwork is all around the world, but is it really worth the resources and time for it? In the essay “Is Art a Waste of Time?” by Ryhs Southan he discusses the purpose of art and explains the group, Effective Altruism. The main argument is that Effective Altruism do not agree with using resources and time on artwork. Effective Altruism is against artwork the resources, and time it uses up that do not contribute to the poor.
Some people can not afford canvas so they use the walls on the side of the road. Support: Art is a way to express emotion and pain. It is better than self harm and taking anger out on others in the form of assault.
Probably the only country in the world that totally rejects globalization, North Korea, upon becoming a separate country in 1948 when the Korean peninsula was divided into two separate countries in the aftermath of WWII, has emerged today as the world’s most enduring isolated totalitarian socialist society in recent history, according to Freedom House. Trapped somewhere amid a medieval monarchy and a communist party-state, North Korea has been ruled under an iron fist doctrine for more than half a century by the dynastic succession Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-Il and Kim Jong-un (hereinafter referred to as the Kims) still exhibiting many features of the typical Stalinist political system and bureaucratic regime, emphasizing the one man–centered