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This study have focused on North Korean film to understand the styles of conflict management in people's everyday life. Under the principles of partisanship, proletarianship, and people-first ideology, different styles of conflict management(accomodating, compromising and forcing) were analyzed. Interestingly enough, there were 3rd party intervention to resolve everyday life conflicts which was classified as North Korean styles of conflict management. Analytical conclusion of this study are as follows; first of all, there are many obstacles to understand North Korean society due to lack of information. Even if we could suggested that the films can be used as a media to see through the society, the film itself were made under the political purpose to indoctrinate North Korean people. Actor’s motion as well as the scenario were sophisticatedly programmed by the politburo. Therefore, we could assume that the negative or problematic characters were more than just a interesting character but reasonable or intentional character to reveal real life situation in the society. Second, films in North Korea were made under the principles of partisanship, proletarianship and people-first ideology, as we mentioned above. In order to represent those principles, the films generally use the conflict evolving-exaggerating-resolving procedure as a cliche. Conflict itself can be used as a main metaphor to deliver political ideology in the films made by North Korea. Third, status of political leader were not just a institutional. They intervene people’s everyday life not as political influencer but as cultural, too. Leadership of polititburo in local level were so powerful that thearchical system could be manageable in North Korea.