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Most of the products you see in this book are specifically manufactured to be sold in shops where foreign tourists are taken. Tourists have virtually no access
by smikhanov 9y ago
Most of the products you see in this book are specifically manufactured to be sold in shops where foreign tourists are taken. Tourists have virtually no access to the shops ordinary Koreans would go, and the opposite is also true: ordinary Koreans in most cases would simply not be allowed entry to the shop for foreigners, and they would have no Western currency to use in those stores anyways. So the English on all labels is easy to explain: people making that book mostly had access to a specially prepared versions of any product.
- bane 9y agoIf you want to see the most fascinating look at how things work in North Korea, at least in Pyongyang for a foreign diplomat, I highly recommend watching videos made by Jaka Parker. He lives there with his family and, though it is through his specific lens, you get to see some of the more well known stores that you can spot on google maps, but from the inside. How the purchase process works, how stores are layed out and so on. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzvCf_q10UZkUJE0lOav0ag https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzvCf_q10UZkUJE0lOav0ag https://www.instagram.com/jakaparker/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/jakaparker/?hl=en https://jakaparker.blogspot.com/ https://jakaparker.blogspot.com/ Here's one of my favorites, Jaka goes to buy a flashlight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeBtSnFeA18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeBtSnFeA18