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Special lecture
Media and Press Freedom in North Korea

Media and press freedom, along with other fundamental rights, is one of the most hotly debated issues in relation to the autocratic state of North Korea today. Dr. Bernhard Seliger, representative of the Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF) in Korea, was invited by the University of Applied Sciences for Media, Communication and Management in Cologne to give a “Zoom” lecture on the current situation in North Korea.

North Korea is one of the most isolated and unknown countries on earth. Few journalists had the chance to enter the country, news about the country are notoriously unreliable, and press freedom is absent. In a special lecture for the Print media class of the University in Cologne, led by Prof. Dr. Friederike Bing, Dr. Bernhard Seliger was invited to a virtual talk about media in North Korea.

 

While giving an overview of traditional media and issues of freedom of press, he also looked into non-traditional media, like the important role of propaganda, e.g. by posters or leaflets. Finally, he showed that even without widespread use of the internet a digitalization process of media has begun in North Korea in the last ten years.

 

 

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