For the first time since the pandemic, North Korea is allowing private individuals to go crabbing along the Yellow Sea coast. Entrepreneurs are scrambling to recruit crews and secure gear.
#NorthKorea #DPRK #Marketization #NKEconomy https://www.dailynk.com/english/eased-restrictions-fuel-optimism-as-north-koreas-crab-season-gets-under-way/North Korean high schoolers are dining out multiple times a week — and splitting the bill evenly. Elders are baffled. "How can they call each other comrades after that?"
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North Korea youth embrace “going Dutch”
North Korean students are increasingly splitting restaurant bills, a shift that older generations say upends traditional notions of collective generosity.
OnlineFirst - "The expansion of China’s market margins: Navigating contingencies and conjunctures" by Wenying Fu:
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X231202912
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