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Tattoo says "reunification” in English, over an outline of the Korean peninsula. Photograph: Alek Sigley/Tongil Tours |
Tattoos in North Korea :
Past
In North Korea
There is no law in place that ban tattoos in korea
“In my father’s generation it used to be really popular to get tattoos of a North Korean soldier killing an American invader,” says Kim Shin-woo, who arrived in South Korea from the DPRK, also known as North Korea, in 2007.
In terms of the war phrases to choose from came as followed. Defend the Fatherland! Victory! and Battle!
"One against one hundred" was to show how they could kill a hundred enemies in battle.
Present
There is the belief in North Korea that if a woman in North Korea has a tattoo it is assumed she comes from a bad family
There is a struggle in tattoos within North Korea with the limitations that arise. Since exports to North Korea were banned by Japan Japan banned imports after the North's first nuclear test in 2006 making accessibility to Ink and medical swabs a lot more difficult.
Defectors of North Korea who now reside in South Korea have had tattoos removed in accordance with the beauty standards in South Korea.
Also according to defectors of North Korea the growing popularity of tattoos written in English also reflects changes in the economic, political, and cultural landscape.
Design is limited to the people “In North Korea, tattoos must carry praise of the Kim family or carry a teaching of the state,” said Hyun Namhyuk, who escaped North Korea and recently settled in South Korea.
Future
Liberty within North Korea, what the people who have escaped have to say about their experiences of what the country was like
What innovative and new ways is type being used and how can that relate to expressing freedom?
Is the way in which symbol and imagery used could be used to this idea.
To consider:
How do tattoos reflect a culture? Socio economic political society in general?
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