Mansudae Overseas Projects
Template:Short description Template:Infobox Korean name/auto
Mansudae Overseas Projects (Korean: Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler) is a construction company based in Jongphyong-dong, Phyongchon District, Pyongyang, North Korea.[1][2] It is the international commercial division of the Mansudae Art Studio. As of August 2011, it had earned an estimated US$160 million overseas building monuments and memorials. As of 2015, Mansudae projects have been built in 17 countries: Angola, Algeria, Benin, Botswana, Cambodia, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Germany, Malaysia, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, Togo and Zimbabwe. The company uses North Korean artists, engineers, and construction workers rather than those of the local artists and workers. Sculptures, monuments, and buildings are in the style of North Korean socialist realism.[3][4][5][6]
Notable works
.JPG){kind=link}
Mansudae Overseas Projects is responsible for various monuments across Africa. They constructed the President Agostinho Neto Cultural Centre in Luanda, Angola,[7][8][9] a statue of Béhanzin in Benin,[10][9] the Three Dikgosi Monument in Botswana,[10][9] a statue of Laurent-Désiré Kabila in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,[10][9] the Tiglachin Monument in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,[9][11] the Samora Machel Statue in Maputo, Mozambique,[9][12] and four public works in Namibia: the Heroes' Acre (inaugurated August 2002), the Okahandja Military Museum (inaugurated 2004), the State House of Namibia (inaugurated 2008), and the Independence Memorial Museum (inaugurated 2014).[3]
In Senegal, the company built the African Renaissance Monument.[10][9] Mansudae Overseas Project also constructed the National Heroes' Acre in Zimbabwe,[9] which closely mirrors the design of the Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery in Taesong-guyŏk.[3] Also in ZImbabwe, the statue of Joshua Nkomo was constructed by the company.[9]
In Cambodia, the Angkor Panorama Museum was built next to the temples of Angkor. The museum was operated jointly by APSARA and Mansudae, with about half of 40 staff members being from North Korea.[13] In 2020, the museum was closed indefinitely due to international sanctions.[14]
Mansudae also worked on the reconstruction of the Template:Ill in Frankfurt, Germany, an art nouveau relic from 1910 that had been melted down for its metal during World War II. Germany is the only western nation to have a North Korean-built structure.[15]
References
Further reading
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
External links
Script error: No such module "Portal". Template:Sister project
- Mansudae Art Studio, North Korea's Colossal Monument Factory
- Tycho van der Hoog: Monuments of power: the North Korean origin of nationalist heritage in Namibia and Zimbabwe. - Leiden : African Studies Centre, 2019
- Tycho van der Hoog: North Korean monuments in southern Africa: Legitimizing party rule through the National Heroes’ Acres in Zimbabwe and Namibia. Leiden, 2017
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b c Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b c d Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".