Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Pyongyang Restaurants ... Just Not In North Korea

Here's an interesting article on slate.com about North Korean restaurants that are established outside of the country. They're fairly common in China, but this one is in Cambodia. These restaurants are established to help bring some cash back into North Korea.

This story is funny because it says that while the restaurants are busy, they're mostly filled with South Korean tourists.


From the story:
'The predominantly South Korean clientele claps and cheers, requesting reverb-drenched renditions of Korean pop classics.'
Like the workers sent to help on the World Cup stadiums, this is probably the closest thing a common North Korean citizen can get to a dream job, and it's still just doing their duty for the man in charge.




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