Revolutionizing Sports: The Construction of Sports Culture in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, 1957 - 1959
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis examines the construction of sports culture in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) in the late 1950s. Specifically, it focuses on the north's sports spectacles and sports programs in factories in the historical context of the DPRK's post-Korean War reconstruction efforts. Through the close examination of the state's official discourse and imagery in the media, it is clear that the Workers Party of Korea (WPK) considered sports to be an important cultural practice that needed to be revolutionized for the masses. By examining the state's efforts to "revolutionize" sports in the name of socialism, this thesis attempts to illustrate the numerous challenges of interpreting and implementing the WPK's centralized sports policies in the 1950s. In particular, the state's various sports organs were non-uniform and inconsistent in their interpretation and implementation of the Party's sports policies. Therefore, the aim of this thesis is to demonstrate that the DPRK's state-controlled sports enterprise was a system that was ultimately centralized, but not necessarily unified, consistent, or exclusively limited to the control of the state.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".