Four Seasons of North Korean Folk Customs

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

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

FormatPricePDF — Single Volume, USD Price Provided Separately