The Traffic Policewomen Analysis

3.1 An overview of the documentary

The Traffic Policewomen starts with a traditional Korean music and then it proceeds into different modules of acts in my personal division (See Figure 3.1.). After the opening background music, the video presents audio-visual-based scenes on traffic duty assignments and traffic in downtown Pyongyang. This is the first act I describe as the visual introduction on traffic police and traffics in Pyongyang. Next to the visual introduction, the video makes a narrations on the history of Pyongyang traffics. I have listed the correspondent examples in the same Figure. Furthermore, the video goes to the interview with the leading North Korean traffic policewoman, Yingmei (the Chinese way of spelling). The interview contains how she began a NK policewoman, what is the most impressive work experience, what is her future plan after the policewoman position, etc. The final act is about the entertainment room in the traffic police station. It presents the forms of “entertainment”, such as reading, watching movies or doing karaoke. As an ending, the video resumes the Korean background music as it does at the beginning and shows evolution of the costumes for NK policewomen in four seasons. As what I reviewed in the last section, the following analysis will apply the main contents in this

This seems quite correct when referring the following quotations below (The quotations in the body paragraphs are in plain formats. For marked version, see the Appendix II where I highlight the discourse analysis).

Extract 01 “Even natural parents cannot afford to makes new clothes to children, whereas we (traffic policewomen) enjoy clothing benefits for all seasons.” - Yingmei at