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Weird, I tried to click on "Kimchi Harvest" to see a larger version. Instead, the link was to https://mydiplomaticlife.com/how-to-survive-3-years-in-north-korea
by gwbas1c 2y ago
Weird, I tried to click on "Kimchi Harvest" to see a larger version. Instead, the link was to https://mydiplomaticlife.com/how-to-survive-3-years-in-north-korea-as-a-foreigner/download-11-2/#main https://mydiplomaticlife.com/how-to-survive-3-years-in-north..., which just took me to the top of the article.
- starik36 2y agoOddly enough, Soviet Union had a thing similar to "Kimchi Harvest". I remember workers in my town having to go work at a collective farm for a week harvesting things. They also had something called "subotnik", aka voluntary Saturday labor. This was a practice where citizens, including workers and students, participated in unpaid labor on Saturdays. These activities included various tasks like cleaning up the city (that's what I remember doing as a kid). There was nothing "voluntary" about it.
- ZhongXina 2y agoIt was still the norm in Uzbekistan until just a few years ago, but with cotton instead of potatoes. Not anymore AFAIK.
- gwbas1c 2y agoI really appreciate anecdotes like that. As I've gotten older, I've wanted to understand a lot of the details about what makes life in Communist countries ... frustrating. IE, in school we only had a superficial explanation of what communism is; it wasn't until I was in my 30s that I understood the whole "cult of personality" thing.
- sva_ 2y agoGimjang week is pretty common in SK as well, especially among the elders https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimjang https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimjang
- jwrallie 2y agoAll the photos seem to have broken links, but for some of them you can get their direct link and remove the "-scaled" part to get a higher resolution. Not for the Kimchi one though.