[KS] A quick question

[Frank Hoffmann]

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)
> 

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