People's Prize Explained

People's Prize
Awarded For:Best achievements in creative fields
Presenter:People's Prize Awarding Commission
Country:North Korea
Date:–present

The People's Prize (ko|인민상) is a North Korean arts and sciences award. It is awarded by the People's Prize Awarding Commission, which is working directly under the Cabinet of North Korea.[1] The prize can be granted to works of art or people. People's Prize has been an important award in the field of North Korean cinema.

The works and people that have received the People's Prize cover such varied fields as literature, gymnastics, Korean revolutionary opera, acupuncture and sculpture. The People's Prize has been received by people abroad.

History

The People's Prize was instituted on 8 September 1958.[2]

The first North Korean feature film My Hometown (1949) was directed by Kang Hongshik. It was the first of a film series to be awarded People's Prize. Kim Il Sung praised many of People's Prize winning movies from 1960s and 1970s of supplying an exhaustive answer to the issue of people's . The Workers' Party gives the award to those North Korean films and film-makers seen as fulfilling the role of an "excellent textbook" for the workers party.

Some of the works, which did not become recognized as "Immortal classics", did earn People's Prize meant only for the best productions. One such production is a three-part film Five Guerilla Brothers (1968) directed by Choe Ik-gyu, and overseen by Kim Jong Il himself. Other films overseen by Kim to win the People's Prize were A Flowering Village and A Family of Workers (1971). In the case of the A Family of Workers, Kim Jong Il was reportedly not satisfied with the application of the seed theory.[3] [4] However, some of Kim Jong Il's movies, such as Sea of Blood (1968) and Flower girl (1972), became "Immortal classics".[5]

In 1965 the Chongryon established Chosun University's teaching staff in Japan received the prize.

Many of the works to obtain People's Prize are still highly regarded in North Korea. Reminiscences of the Anti-Japanese Guerillas is regarded as classic of literature of the Workers' Party, and was awarded People's Prize in 2012. It is still used in daily ideological study sessions at workplaces, and many of the memoirs have later been made into movies.[6]

People's Prize winner Kim Song-gun's major work Waves of the Sea Kumgang was used as a background for a group photo with Kim Jong Il and Bill Clinton during Clinton's visit to North Korea in 2009.[7] Kim Song-gun received the award for his painting Waves of the Sea Kumgang in 1999.[8]

List of works and people having received the prize

Arts

Books

See also: North Korean literature.

Education

Gymnastics

See also: Mass games.

Movies

See also: Cinema of North Korea.

Musical plays

Revolutionary opera

See also: Korean revolutionary opera and List of North Korean operas.

Science

See also

References

Sources

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Robert A. Scalapino. Chong-Sik Lee. Communism in Korea: The society. 1972. University of California Press. 978-0-520-02274-4. 1395.
  2. Web site: Chests Full of Brass: A DPRK Political History in Orders, Medals, Prizes, and Titles . Weiser . Martin . Sino-NK . 8 January 2016 . 16 April 2016 .
  3. Book: Johannes Schönherr. North Korean Cinema: A History. 13 August 2012. McFarland. 978-0-7864-9052-3. 47.
  4. Book: Bradley K. Martin. Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty. 1 April 2007. St. Martin's Press. 978-1-4299-0699-9. 252.
  5. Web site: Ten things: North Korea's film industry . Cheung . Helier . 2 January 2014 . . 28 July 2015 .
  6. Web site: Reminiscences of Anti-Japanese Guerrillas, True Textbook of Life . 2 February 2006 . . 26 May 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141012092540/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2006/200602/news02/04.htm . 12 October 2014 . dead .
  7. Web site: Why dictators love kitch . 27 August 2009 . www.nkeconwatch.com . 7 October 2015.
  8. Web site: Kim Jong Un Sends Birthday Spreads to Intellectuals . 8 September 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170908203312/http://kcna.co.jp/item/2015/201509/news14/20150914-19ee.html . 14 September 2015 . . 7 October 2015 . dead . dmy-all .
  9. Web site: Samjiyon Revolutionary Battle Site . 12 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141012070752/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2000/200004/news04/12.htm . April 2000 . . 7 October 2015.
  10. Web site: Chollima Statue, Symbol of Juche Korea . 12 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141012092230/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2006/200604/news04/17.htm . 15 April 2006 . . 7 October 2015.
  11. Web site: KIM Song Gun . galerie son . 7 October 2015 . 6 April 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160406102308/http://galerie-son.com/artists/kimsonggun/kimsonggun_en_vita.html . dead .
  12. Book: Myers, Brian. Han Sŏrya and North Korean Literature: The Failure of Socialist Realism in DPRK. 23 June 2015. 1994. Ithaca. East Asia Program, Cornell University. 978-0-939657-84-1. 191.
  13. Web site: Publication of Books on Greatness of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il Observed . 12 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141012072920/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2012/201203/news27/20120327-19ee.html . 27 March 2012 . . 7 October 2015.
  14. Web site: Book "Among People"(Vol. 100) off Press in DPRK . 12 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141012085251/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2012/201203/news26/20120326-21ee.html . 26 March 2012 . . 7 October 2015.
  15. Web site: 1965年 . 2001 . . ko . 12 October 2015.
  16. Web site: Anniversary of Korean Mass Gymnastics Production Company Marked . 12 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141012012238/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2011/201111/news10/20111110-05ee.html . 10 November 2011 . . 7 October 2015.
  17. Web site: Mass gymnastic display in Korea . 12 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141012070246/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/1998/9806/news06/16.htm . 16 June 1988 . . 7 October 2015.
  18. Web site: Mass gymnastic display production unit 29 years old . 30 August 2004. https://web.archive.org/web/20040830051242/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2000/200011/news11/10.htm . November 2000 . . 7 October 2015.
  19. Web site: 40th Anniversary of Korean Mass Gymnastics Production Company Celebrated . 12 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141012012233/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2011/201111/news10/20111110-30ee.html . 10 November 2011 . . 7 October 2015.
  20. Book: T'ae-u Ko . ko:북한사 다이제스트 100 . Digest 100 series . ko . Karam Kihoek . 2015 . 9788984353398.
  21. Book: Hyangjin Lee. Contemporary Korean Cinema: Culture, Identity and Politics. 2000. Manchester University Press. 978-0-7190-6008-3. 199.
  22. Web site: The Literary Ideas of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il: An Introduction to North Korean Meta-Authorial Perspectives . David-West . Alzo . 2009 . 28 July 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151123131224/http://clogic.eserver.org/2009/David-west.pdf . 23 November 2015 . dmy-all .
  23. Book: So, Hui Jo. The Dream Comes True. Foreign Languages Publishing House. 2021. 978-9946-0-2002-0. Pyongyang. 40.
  24. Book: Yonhap News Agency, Seoul. North Korea Handbook. 27 December 2002. M.E. Sharpe. 978-0-7656-3523-5. 948.
  25. Web site: Singer Remaining in Memory of Korean People . 12 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141012082033/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2012/201201/news28/20120128-29ee.html . 28 January 2012 . . 7 October 2015.
  26. Book: Kim, Bong-han. Great discovery in biology and medicine: substance of Kyungrak.. Editor's note. 1962. Foreign Languages Publishing House. Pyongyang. 4.
  27. Web site: Meritorious scientist enjoys eternal life . 12 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141012050904/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/1999/9909/news09/30.htm . 30 September 1999 . . 7 October 2015.

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