North Korean Folklore & Cultural Heritage Monograph

Four Seasons of Korean Folk Customs

Author: Ri Chŏng-nam | Pyongyang Publishing House, 2014 | 307 pages

This volume is a revised and expanded edition of historian and research scholar Ri Chŏng-nam's original 2005 work of the same title. The author has updated and supplemented the original text for this 2014 Pyongyang Publishing House release.

Four Seasons of North Korean Folk Customs

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Item	Details
Title	Four Seasons of Korean Folk Customs (『조선의 사계절민속』)
Author	Ri Chŏng-nam (리정남), Research Scholar & Historian
Publisher	Pyongyang Publishing House (평양출판사)
Year of Publication	2014 (revised and expanded edition of the 2005 original)
Total Pages	307 pages
Format	PDF (Digital)
Price	USD $30

The book organizes ancestrally transmitted folk customs and cultural materials into the framework of Korea's four seasons:

Season	Coverage
🌸 Spring	Folk customs, traditions, and practices of the spring season
☀️ Summer	Folk customs, traditions, and practices of the summer season
🍂 Autumn	Folk customs, traditions, and practices of the autumn season
❄️ Winter	Folk customs, traditions, and practices of the winter season

The book is designed to be both systematic and accessible, incorporating the following elements to aid reader comprehension and engagement:

Feature	Description
📋 Systematic Organization	Folk materials presented clearly and methodically by season
💡 General Knowledge	Supplementary knowledge related to each folk custom
📖 Traditional Stories	Old tales and narratives connected to seasonal customs
🖼️ Illustrations	Visual materials woven throughout to enrich understanding

🏛️ Folklorists and cultural anthropologists researching traditional Korean customs and seasonal practices

📚 Korean studies scholars examining DPRK perspectives on shared Korean cultural heritage

🎓 Academic institutions with programs in East Asian cultural history and ethnography

🤝 Inter-Korean cultural exchange organizations seeking primary source materials on Korean traditional life

🌏 International readers and researchers interested in the traditional folk culture of the Korean Peninsula

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