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  • NarrativeThe Tale of Chunhyang춘향전Anonymous · 1750The tale comes from pansori, the art of storytelling sung by a singer accompanied by a drum.Literature
  • Epic백두산Cho Ki-chon · 1947not translated into EnglishIt was the first epic published in the North after liberation, and the model of Korean socialist realism.Literature
  • Feature filmThe Flower Girl꽃 파는 처녀Choe Ik-kyu and Pak Hak · 1972The film adapts a revolutionary opera that the regime attributes to the founder of the state, Kim Il-sung.Cinema
  • Feature filmPulgasari불가사리Shin Sang-ok · 1985The film was made by a South Korean filmmaker who had been abducted and held in Pyongyang, with Japanese technicians.Cinema
  • Feature filmHong Kil-dong홍길동Kim Kil-in · 1986In it, North Korean cinema opened its screens for the first time to choreographed combat, a genre until then judged feudal.Cinema