Koreans introduced Chinese paintings selectively according to their own tastes and developed them on their own, spontaneously harmonizing the racial temperament and descriptive techniques. The traditional paintings can be classified into landscape paintings, paintings of flowers and birds, the Four Gracious Plants, portraits, genre paintings, folk paintings, altar portraits of Buddha, and so forth, which are also categorized into two groups, i.e., the paintings in simple style drawn by the men of letters and the professional paintings drawn by professional painters. Masked plays, somewhat Greek in style, are still popular today. Turtle-serpent, an imaginary guardian, as depicted in a fresco on the north wall, rear chamber, Kangso Big Tomb. The seventh-century tomb, in South P'yongan Province, was constructed for the nobles of Koguryo, The mural demonstrates the artistic and architectural skills typical of that period 4b .
Most industry is state owned.
Between a quarter and a third of the country s budget money is spent on the upkeep of the military. Other countries have rolled back from the disasters of centrally planned economies by first allowing a private sector to emerge, and then allowing it gradually to supersede and enterprises. This is not the case in North Korea - decreasing revolutionary fervor seems to be leaving a void rather than being replaced by anything. Relationship with Japan North Korea recently received food aid from Japan, a country with which it has severed ties. However, recently, Korea has been suffering from a shortage of food.