Event overview
Dr Callum Morrissey (MCCS) is joined by Songyi Jeremiah Han, a North Korean escapee and human rights advocate, sharing a personal account of escape and everyday media use.
This event is part of the MCCS Community Lectures series, hosted by the School of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies. It is open to all staff, students, and members of the public.
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This talk explores one of the most tightly regulated and least accessible media environments in the contemporary world: North Korea. Drawing on doctoral research and professional work with the United Nations on North Korean media ecologies, diasporic communication practices, and state propaganda, Callum Morrissey will open with an analysis of how media technologies are mobilised by the regime to manufacture consent, sustain ideological discipline, and shape national identity.
The session will also include a guest contribution from Songyi Jeremiah Han, a North Korean escapee, who will share a personal narrative of escape alongside reflections on everyday encounters with media both before and after leaving the country. This account will attend in particular to informal media practices, rumours, foreign media circulation, and the affective dimensions of mediated life under conditions of extreme control.
Bringing critical media analysis into dialogue with lived experience, the event examines the relationship between power, control, and personal agency in an opaque media system, while foregrounding the ethical importance of anonymisation, voice, and narrative safety in research and public discussion of North Korean lives.
Goldsmiths students and staff are very welcome to attend in without registration. External guests are kindly asked to complete the attendee form via Eventbrite, available here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/media-control-creative-resistance-in-north-korea-tickets-1980916527659
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Jan 2026 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
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