Visualizing the invisible hands: the shadow economy in North Korea
- Authors
- Joo, Hyung-min
- Issue Date
- 2월-2010
- Publisher
- ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
- Keywords
- North Korea; shadow economy; black market
- Citation
- ECONOMY AND SOCIETY, v.39, no.1, pp.110 - 145
- Indexed
- SSCI
AHCI
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- ECONOMY AND SOCIETY
- Volume
- 39
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 110
- End Page
- 145
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/117022
- DOI
- 10.1080/03085140903424618
- ISSN
- 0308-5147
- Abstract
- The outside world is well aware of the totalitarian side of North Korea. Much less well-known is the shadow economy of the country which has enveloped the everyday lives of ordinary North Koreans for the last fifteen years or so. Based on refugee testimonies, this article aims to shed light on this heretofore unexamined aspect of the country, by visualizing the invisible hands of the ever-growing shadow economy in North Korea. In particular, we will investigate who the main actors are (the agency question), how they obtain their items (the supply mechanism), how they move items from one place to another (the distribution mechanism) and who consumes these items (the consumer question) in contemporary North Korean society
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