<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><FONT BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0">Dear Listmembers,<BR>
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Belated Samil greetings!<BR>
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This from KCNA may be of interest.<BR>
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Not unrelatedly: Many thanks to Yunah Sung, Korean Studies Librarian<BR>
at the University of Michigan, for tracking down my earlier query re<BR>
Korean Press Media. I've now heard back from KPM: see below.<BR>
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Their website is </FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><A HREF="http://dprkmedia.com/">http://dprkmedia.com</A></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0"> (Korean and Japanese only).<BR>
Could be a useful first port of call for anyone wanting to order<BR>
North Korea's new linguistics shelf-buster.<BR>
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cheers<BR>
Aidan FC<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0">AIDAN FOSTER-CARTER</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0"><BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0">Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds University </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0"><BR>
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Home address: 17 Birklands Road, Shipley, West Yorkshire, BD18 3BY, UK <BR>
tel: +44(0) 1274 588586 (alt) +44(0) 1264 737634 mobile: +44(0) 7970 741307 <BR>
fax: +44(0) 1274 773663 ISDN: +44(0) 1274 589280<BR>
Email: afostercarter@aol.com (alt) afostercarter@yahoo.com website: www.aidanfc.net<BR>
[Please use @aol; but if any problems, please try @yahoo too - and let me know, so I can chide AOL]<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=4 PTSIZE=14 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>Collection of Korean Linguistics Published<BR>
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</B>Pyongyang, March 2 (KCNA) -- Scientists of the Linguistics Institute under the Academy of Social Science of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has written and compiled "Collection of Korean Linguistics", 63 volumes in all. They have completed the book after six years of researches for developing and enriching the Korean philology in conformity with the demand of the era and pioneering a new linguistic field. The book, which has brought together in a systematic way the successes made in the linguistic researches over the last six decades, reflects the development of the national language, research achievements embodying the demand of the IT era and achievements of the latest linguistic engineering. <BR>
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The book consists of eleven branches including the linguistic policy, linguistic history and lexicology and philological handbook. <BR>
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The first three volumes of the collection give profound exposition to the Juche-oriented linguistic idea put forward by President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il and their immortal exploits performed in building the cultured language and to the linguistic policy of the Workers' Party of Korea. <BR>
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The volumes from the fourth to the thirteenth deal with the history of the Korean language, the history of character life of the Korean people, the history of Korean language theory and researches into old Korean folksongs. The history of the Korean language includes social function, linguistic structure and style of the Korean written and spoken languages and the issue of development of the letters at each developing stage from the ancient times to the modern times. The 14th - 38th volumes give successes made in such linguistic branches as lexicology, semantics, phonetics, grammar, stylistics and dialectology and add new historical materials to shortcomings of materials that had been published in the past. Featured in the part of the linguistic engineering (39th-45th volumes) are linguistic theory based on the IT, language sound engineering, Korean language probability theory and so on which can access to new science and technology in the field of linguistics to suit the requirements of the IT industry era. <BR>
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The history of change of the Korean language standards and standard theory are dealt with in the part of linguistic standard (46th-47th volumes). <BR>
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The philological handbook (48th-63rd volumes), which is also compiled as CDs, gives correct answers to the questions to be raised among the working people when writing and speaking at present.<BR>
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Subj: <B>Welcome to the KPM! </B> <BR>
Date: 21/02/2006 05:11:21 GMT Standard Time <BR>
From: <A HREF="mailto:help@korea-m.com">help@korea-m.com</A> <BR>
To: <A HREF="mailto:Afostercarter@aol.com">Afostercarter@aol.com</A> <BR>
<I>Sent from the Internet (Details)</I> <BR>
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Dear Mr. Aidan Foster-Carter, Welcome to the KPM! The KCNA report is certainly about us.The KPM is now providing real-time news and information of major media of the DPRK.The KPM is unfamiliar in the world because it just started in January. The Korea Media is doing business mainly in Japan and the Republic of Korea. Our company will expand business around the world in the very near future.It is the primary responsibility of the KPM to convey news of the DPRK correctly and quickly.Now the KPM is providing news to media companies, research institutions of universities and libraries. Wire reports of the KPM will be directed to individual persons from latter half of this year.If you want to attain news of the KPM, you can use free news delivery service in trial period for a month.The KPM’s news distribution is membership fee-based service. As for the subscription fee, we would be glad to consider reducing the price.A Korean language application form is attached to this e-mail. Please fill in the application in Korean or English.We will inform you of IP and password to use the service, after accepting the application. <A HREF="http://dprkmedia.com/">http://dprkmedia.com</A> Sincerely, 2006.2.21 </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0">Is the KCNA report below about you?<BR>
I'd welcome more information.<BR>
As you see, I am trying to get you some publicity!<BR>
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regards<BR>
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AIDAN FOSTER-CARTER<BR>
Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds University <BR>
Home address: 17 Birklands Road, Shipley, West Yorkshire, BD18 3BY, UK <BR>
tel: +44(0) 1274 588586 (alt) +44(0) 1264 737634 mobile: +44(0) 7970 741307 <BR>
fax: +44(0) 1274 773663 ISDN: +44(0) 1274 589280<BR>
Email: afostercarter@aol.com (alt) afostercarter@yahoo.com website: www.aidanfc.net<BR>
[Please use @aol; but if any problems, please try @yahoo too - and let me know, so I can chide AOL]<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Subj: <B>KPM: New Tokyo-based resource for DPRK periodicals </B> <BR>
Date: 03/02/2006 12:28:47 GMT Standard Time <BR>
From: <A HREF="mailto:Afostercarter">Afostercarter</A> <BR>
To: <A HREF="mailto:Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws">Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws</A> <BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0">Dear colleagues,<BR>
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The below from KCNA today caught my eye.<BR>
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This looks to be a more convenient way to access <BR>
a wider range of North Korean periodicals <BR>
than any known to me hitherto. (They evidently <BR>
want paying, so let's hope prices are reasonable.)<BR>
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Unfortunately KCNA neglected to give the URL, or any<BR>
other contact details. A desultory Google brought no joy.<BR>
There seems to be no mention at www.kcna.co.jp<BR>
- although this is surely from the same stable.<BR>
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So please could some kind soul tell us where to find KPM?<BR>
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Happy new dog to one and all!<BR>
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Aidan<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0">AIDAN FOSTER-CARTER<BR>
Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds University <BR>
Home address: 17 Birklands Road, Shipley, West Yorkshire, BD18 3BY, UK <BR>
tel: +44(0) 1274 588586 (alt) +44(0) 1264 737634 mobile: +44(0) 7970 741307 <BR>
fax: +44(0) 1274 773663 ISDN: +44(0) 1274 589280<BR>
Email: afostercarter@aol.com (alt) afostercarter@yahoo.com website: www.aidanfc.net<BR>
[Please use @aol; but if any problems, please try @yahoo too - and let me know, so I can chide AOL]</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=11 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>KPM Inaugurated in Japan<BR>
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</B>Tokyo, February 2 (KNS-KCNA) -- The Korean Media Co., Ltd, located in Tokyo inaugurated the Korean Press Media (KPM) and started its operation from January 15 through its Internet network. The KPM comprises such daily newspapers as Rodong Sinmun and Minju Joson, News of Pyongyang Bureau of Choson Sinbo, weekly newspapers Thongil Sinbo, Literature and Pyongyang Times (English), such periodicals as monthly magazine Chollima, Korean Literature, Korean Arts, Youth Literature and Juvenile Literature, quarterly newspapers Gazette of Kim Il Sung University (philosophy, economics, history, law and linguistics), Science of History, Study of Economy, Study of Political Law, Study of Philosophy, Korean Linguistics, National Cultural Heritage and Study of Cultured Korean Language. <BR>
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The KPM attracts attention of foreign mass media and public as it edits news items in such a way as to enable their subscribers to read them quickly with interest as required by the IT age, while protecting the property rights of the media of the DPRK. <BR>
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The KPM has a plan to provide its services to all parts of the world on a payment condition. It will sign contracts with foreign media and research institutions and increase its dispatch of information so as to ensure a speedy and accurate introduction of the true picture of the DPRK making a dynamic advance towards a great prosperous powerful nation and the reunification of Korea.<BR>
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