Prof. Frank argues that the Wonsan-Kalma beach resort in North Korea is primarily designed for domestic tourism. Drawing comparisons with state-organized leisure programs in other authoritarian regimes—such as Nazi Germany’s Kraft durch Freude (KdF) and East Germany’s Freier Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (FDGB)—he suggests that this development raises a host of new questions and challenges regarding the functions of leisure in autocratic governance.
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