[KS] Collection of Korean Linguistics Published (DPRK, 63 volumes)

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Dear Listmembers,

Belated Samil greetings!

This from KCNA may be of interest.

Not unrelatedly: Many thanks to Yunah Sung, Korean Studies Librarian
at the University of Michigan, for tracking down my earlier query re
Korean Press Media. I've now heard back from KPM: see below.

Their website is http://dprkmedia.com (Korean and Japanese only).
Could be a useful first port of call for anyone wanting to order
North Korea's new linguistics shelf-buster.

cheers
Aidan FC

AIDAN FOSTER-CARTER
Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds University 


Home address: 17 Birklands Road, Shipley, West Yorkshire, BD18 3BY, UK 
tel: +44(0)  1274  588586         (alt) +44(0) 1264 737634          mobile:  
+44(0)  7970  741307 
fax: +44(0)  1274  773663         ISDN:   +44(0)   1274 589280
Email: afostercarter at aol.com     (alt) afostercarter at yahoo.com      website: 
www.aidanfc.net
[Please use @aol; but if any problems, please try @yahoo too - and let me 
know, so I can chide AOL]


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Collection of Korean Linguistics Published

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. 

The book consists of eleven branches including the linguistic policy, 
linguistic history and lexicology and philological handbook. 

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. 

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. 

The history of change of the Korean language standards and standard theory 
are dealt with in the part of linguistic standard (46th-47th volumes). 

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.

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Subj:   Welcome to the KPM!     
Date:   21/02/2006 05:11:21 GMT Standard Time   
From:   help at korea-m.com    
To: Afostercarter at aol.com   
Sent from the Internet (Details)    
    


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. http://dprkmedia.com Sincerely,  
2006.2.21  

>  
> Is the KCNA report below about you?
> I'd welcome more information.
> As you see, I am trying to get you some publicity!
> 
> regards
> 
> AIDAN FOSTER-CARTER
> Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds 
> University 
> Home address: 17 Birklands Road, Shipley, West Yorkshire, BD18 3BY, UK 
> tel: +44(0)  1274  588586         (alt) +44(0) 1264 737634          mobile:  
> +44(0)  7970  741307 
> fax: +44(0)  1274  773663         ISDN:   +44(0)   1274 589280
> Email: afostercarter at aol.com     (alt) afostercarter at yahoo.com      website: 
> www.aidanfc.net
> [Please use @aol; but if any problems, please try @yahoo too - and let me 
> know, so I can chide AOL]
> 
> _____________
> 
> 
> Subj:    KPM: New Tokyo-based resource for DPRK periodicals    
> Date:    03/02/2006 12:28:47 GMT Standard Time    
> From:    Afostercarter    
> To:    Koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws 
>    
> 
> 
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> The below from KCNA today caught my eye.
> 
> This looks to be a more convenient way to access 
> a wider range of North Korean periodicals 
> than any known to me hitherto. (They evidently 
> want paying, so let's hope prices are reasonable.)
> 
> Unfortunately KCNA neglected to give the URL, or any
> other contact details. A desultory Google brought no joy.
> There seems to be no mention at www.kcna.co.jp
> - although this is surely from the same stable.
> 
> So please could some kind soul tell us where to find KPM?
> 
> Happy new dog to one and all!
> 
> Aidan
> 
> AIDAN FOSTER-CARTER
> Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds 
> University 
> Home address: 17 Birklands Road, Shipley, West Yorkshire, BD18 3BY, UK 
> tel: +44(0)  1274  588586         (alt) +44(0) 1264 737634          mobile:  
> +44(0)  7970  741307 
> fax: +44(0)  1274  773663         ISDN:   +44(0)   1274 589280
> Email: afostercarter at aol.com     (alt) afostercarter at yahoo.com      website: 
> www.aidanfc.net
> [Please use @aol; but if any problems, please try @yahoo too - and let me 
> know, so I can chide AOL]
> 
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KPM Inaugurated in Japan

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. 


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. 

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.














































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