[KS] A quick question
Frank Hoffmann
hoffmann at koreanstudies.com
Mon Aug 10 01:37:55 EDT 2020
Hello Mark:
Nǒngno 넝로 -- no clue, never heard, but what comes to mind
immediately when hearing "넝 + 로" is of course Marx'
"Lumpenprotetariat" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpenproletariat),
as a contraction of 넝마 + 로동.
Best,
Frank
On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 11:34:55 +0900, MARK E. CAPRIO wrote:
> I am reading a collection of North Korean (and some southern Korean
> progressive) newspapers from the early years of liberation. These are
> contained in a multi-volume, and rather expensive, set titled as
> follows.
> Puk Chosǒn sillok: Nyǒn p’yo saryo [North Korean Authentic Record:
> Chronology and Documents]. Kim Kwang’un, general ed. (Seoul: Korea
> Data Project, 2018).
>
> Early (1945-6) records contain information from a newspaper? magazine
> called 넝로 Nǒngno. My question is whether anyone knows anything
> about this periodical. All that I have been able to gather (assume
> really) is that it was published in the north. Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Mark Caprio
> Rikkyo University (This year at Hallym University)
>
_______________________________
Frank Hoffmann
http://koreanstudies.com
More information about the Koreanstudies
mailing list