People, read the description!! This is a shop for foreigners. Of course, North Koreans cannot buy Kit Kat or Pepsi. Only foreigners can to show them North Korea accepts western products
not local koreans. only high rankings one who and from the description: This store named Pyongyang Shop, which only several people who can access inside, only Foreigners and local Korean people who can get permission to be inside Diplomatic Compound (usually Korean people who works for foreign Organisations and embassies). looks like you cant read
@@AmyC28713i think so, too. There‘s a lot of German products; like, fully German text. This reeeeally doesn’t look like export goods; more like stuff I could buy here in Aldi next door. I could imagine, this is smuggled; probably bought in regular stores in EU or US and then imported over to NK. Super weird.
@@massive_dick_gaming It's true half the stores are a front a mirage they're not actually even shops just displayed like them I saw a guy recently go to NK he went to walk into a store he was stopped & told to wait while a runner got what the guy wanted from the "shop".
Mai, North Korea, China, Russia and many other 'progressive' nations have THOUSANDS of propaganda accounts on UA-cam and many social medias, both bots and humans.
Actually Im pretty sure this store would be permitted to be filmed. Tourists are allowed to film privileged areas because nk wants the world to think the whole country is like this
@anonymous why you think they are fake? In Idaho they are like $5-6 a pack.. If you go to a place that does not tax the crap out of them they will be rather cheap, like $2-3 a pack cheap
So odd seeing cigarettes stacked on the shelf like a normal item. But when you already know exactly who's coming to the store, theft and minors aren't a worry.
When I was in Germany 5 years ago it was pretty much the same way. In the US, in -some- areas, we do the same thing, but with cigars. Low crime rate do wonders.
@@kellogg6041 Here in Canada everything is behind the counter. The cigar humidors usually are on the customer side but they're always locked. You even need ID to get a lighter. It's federal law. The even banned flavoured cigarillos in most provinces. It's's not even about theft here, it's about minors not being able to buy it even though there's strict harsh laws against selling to minors.
@@kmac892 In Russia - public display of cigarettes is prohibited, so you can only buy behind the counter. Energy drinks are 18+ only, they do enforce it strictly the same way as alcohol. The Alcohol is sold only until 21:00 or 22:00 I can't remember, you can't buy alcohol at night. e-cigs are still sold but in separate vape shops, 18+ only, though they seem to be more relaxed about age restriction. You can buy a lighter without an ID, well maybe if you are 12 they will refuse who knows...
Really weird seeing all those cartons of cigarettes up there (amazed American ones aren't banned) and then the black label of Smoking Kills😂. I wonder how much a carton costs there?
@luphone2781 that's not what he's saying, genius. Move the jugs and put the small items down by the base of the water jugs. Nobody is talking about a bottom rack. He's saying bottom of the basket, not ontop of the water jugs. Sheesh.
What actually annoyed me more was the fact that when he noticed that he squeezed his tofu and squished it, instead of just buying it he sneakily went and put it back and got a new one...Now that's just wrong, where I come from if you break you buy it. Leaving it for the next customer, like someone wants to buy the tofu he squished is just really bad manners IMO
Some people are so stupid. Lmao. Just read the description, this guy's wife works in NK's Indonesian embassy. This store is for foreigners and diplomats ofc it has foreign products, and it's normal that they accept foreign currency.
Not just for foreigners, but also for rich north koreans. It's the equivalent to those stores in cuba where people with family in the US go to buy stuff
i was thinking about how easy it would be to shoplift here, but then i realized just how perfect and ordered everything was. considering how few people come through that store it would be figured out quickly something was missing and would be easy to guess who took it.
im so sorry man but this vid is one big lie. y? because this is a superstore here in australia called camelmart i was here in this store last week. store is in part of town with large china population so this is filth and lies sorry to distract
This is really, really odd. The people in the back ground are also just picking up products and putting them back down. It's like the entire thing is one giant set and nothing is real.
Those cigarettes are black market intended for the UK, that's exactly how the health warnings and packaging used to look in 2016. We moved over to plain packaging in 2017 but there was a grace period where the old stock in your supply chains could still be sold, once you reached the deadline it had to be returned. Notice the lack of holographic UK DUTY PAID tax stamp. Naughty.
This simple grocery scene in North Korea is considered privileged. Maybe we are the ones who are privileged and poverty and suffering are more widespread and normal.
Many of the packages strongly remind me of those you would find in an airport duty free area.. see the cigarettes and KitKat? That's all airport packaging
@@joriankell1983 why are you telling people to get a life as you go comment to comment defending this man's factually bizarre shopping habits? It IS weird the way he is shopping. Why is it so frustrating to you that people wanna discuss it??? Sooo weird. This comment section is honestly cursed as fuck.
@@dempsey4212 lucky you had a house. I live in a tent provided to me by the American Red Cross. Thanks to the Supreme Leader of North Korea for providing the fabric my tent is made of.
when you're the only customer in a well stocked super market like that... it feels so eerie... like something is really wrong... but then again it's north korea so....
I don't think any of those companies would export officially to NK, some items might even be sanctioned. They probably grey import products and brands from wherever they can.
I love how the background music suddenly stopped playing as soon as the lights went out on 8:26 but then continued once the light went back up lmfaoOo 😂
1. Ask customer what currency they want to use. 2. Tell customer we don't accept that currency today. 3. Tell customer we can swap the currency they have for the currency we want. 4. Provide a bad exchange rate to gain a profit. 5. Take back the currency you just gave them for the groceries. 6. Wish them a lovely day and ask them to come back soon.
This store is in a Diplomatic compound right behind the Vietnam Embassy only foreigners and local Koreans can access the store the local Koreans have to get permission to access the store but anybody that works in the embassy compound can access the store foreigners are allowed to access the store like if you work at one of the embassies or if your photographer like this gentleman is
Robert silva thank you for your beautiful comments May the force be with you I foresee you being a great Jedi Master you are very lucky to be trained by Master Qui-Gon Jinn I'll be going to Pyongyang North Korea to visit on a visiting tourist visa I'll let you know when I'll go if you want
Crazy how money has different meaning there. He payed in dollars, change was in euros. I can't even tell how many currencies that wallet he opened has.
For those who are wondering why the computer/register didn't turn off when the electricity went out, since power outages or brownouts are common in these countries, desktops and monitors are always connected to a UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply), which is like a backup battery. When I lived in Burma with frequent power outages, I bought one specifically to power my 4G router for internet and another one to power my fan. (Don't ever run a fan with a UPS. You'll burn out the fan's motor and wear out the UPS quickly. At least I wasn't hot during those long outages.)
I find it just slightly humorous the cigarette cartons have the big ol “smoking will kill” on them as if lung cancer is the biggest of your worries there
just.. put... the food.. in the damned cart. Anyone else getting annoyed at that? he's got plenty of room around the water jugs, but he stacks the rice up on the side and carries the other half of the bags in his hands.
Nolan Zinke-Warrack It started with him using his steering wheel in a strange way and it never stopped after that. I came for a video of North Korea but ended up staying for him doing the the most basic things in a very strange way.
This is inside the Diplomatic compound that means only the people from the embassies and their families are Allowed to go shopping HERE Only maybe the locals if they got permission Read the Description this is Not propaganda this is his Daily life in Pyongyang he's an independent photographer his wife works at the Embassy
@@hust_sami_slaveI hope you are being sarcastic and would not actually get any joy from seeing people starve.. To confirm, the general rice provided to the masses is so unrefined that it literally has dirt and rocks in it, a simple web search will find you more on this.. As for videos, titles as follows: --- North Korea : Starving 23 year-old Homeless Woman (Rimjin-gang/ASIAPRESS) --- The 1997 Famine That Still Affects North Korea Today --- North Korea's starving children
1.24 oh my god- Wesergold juice!! That factory is literally 10 min away from my home! I had no idea that this juice is sold outside of Germany, let alone in NK 😳
I think that a big part of viewers can't understand what's special about this store, because you’ve been going to exactly the same stores near your home every day for decades. This kind of shops ONLY for foreigns/diplomats/locals with currency (US dollars/euro/CNY). Get some dollars for locals is difficult, it's real only on the black market. The assortment in state shops for locals looks completely different, much worse. In USSR we had the same kind of shops, it called "Beryozka", you can read in wiki about this. Nowadays in DPRK you can have a private little grocery store, but again it's difficult, need to get a food in bulk quantities (that I don't understand how, may be corrupt way through China, I don't hear about NKs in Russia), arrange with some government organization to register the premises with it and sometimes to pay a bribes.
Yes. NK is OK with strong foreign reserve currency, Euro is preferred I think but US Dollar good too. Same with a lot of countries though, foreigners want their money to have actual value and the state is OK with holding the currency too since it's stable and globally tradeable.
Western world was and will always the true poor of the world. Indonesia As The Peace keeper (North & South Korea, Israel & Palestine & Lebanon, etc..) And USA, Europe, whole western world as peace breaker (nothing new with those eternal criminals the real third world, west = sunset, darkness). Indonesia + China + Russia + North Korea Together At The Same Time Nuclear Bomb To Europe + Middle East including Turkey and surrounding including Pakistan-India + USA = Done Endless Dumb World. Time To Clean Up The World From Those Illnesses from West, The Sunset, The Eternal Darkness. Yes to World Reset. #INDONESIA Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, etc All dumb Middle Eastern-African not complete multilracial not multilingual never been living around the world all alone since childhood Don't be surprised Jews/Christians/Muslims are pathetically idiots. Anything built on criminality will not last. Born a complete multiracial multilingual Indonesian living around the world all alone since childhood, I shared this on my social media: "Indonesia was not, is not and will never be Islamic country, majority of the muslims are just blind followers the same stupid as your forefathers never studied intensively those stupid stone age medieval hocus pocus Judaism/Christianity/Islam of very poor Middle East since very young age, you don't even speak the language fluently not even understanding it, not a complete multiracial not multilingual never been living around the world all alone since childhood but the same never evolved dumb apes stuck inside your tiny boxes your entire life. Western, Middle East, North Africa = Filthy world including faking world map since Mercator projection 1569. Real Indonesia is Huge as Russia and even much richer, Coffee is native to Indonesia not brought by Dutch liars including lies in history of Indonesia even at formal school! Our oil and gas only are much more than whole Middle East." Stop calling real rich natural resources as third world. Real 3rd world is that your natural resources are so poor and colonizing others for centuries long sabotaging the history, stealing, killing, attacking, etc. Real Rich will never do way Middle East, Europe, USA, etc has been doing. Because West and The Middle East, North Africa are the real third world. So sorry Egypt isn't the oldest, even Egypt is very poor, very dry, far off the center of the Equator line. Most highest humidity on Earth: Indonesia, meaning many much older artifacts has decayed much faster than just few thousands years Egypt. And Judaism/Christianity/Islam are just the same dumb. Even most of people know nothing about much older ancient modern civilization here in Indonesia before mega eruption of Toba supervolcano of Sumatra 75,000 years ago. Including 25,000 years old Gunung Padang pyramid in Indonesia. #israel #palestine #lebanon #iran #iraq #ukraine #russia #kashmir #egypt #yemen
So they use the euro or the dollar,very strange....I wonder how they get payed for work....is it cash in hand or do they have banks....so many questions.
As someone who works in retail I find it so odd how they never once smile. They seem polite enough but are very strictly professional. The lighting is so dark compared to practically every store here in the U.S., but as someone who is slightly sensitive to bright lights it's kind of nice. The rather crowded aspect of it reminds me of this little grocery store in the American embassy in Spain, very tight and there was just enough room for you to walk between the aisles, also similar brightness. It was quiet, slightly eerie if you're used to typical retail stores, but cozy and got the job done.
You don't need to look better and friendlier than the other stores when there aren't other stores around. You also get no price competition, so you're screwed.
I hear you on the brightness, I started going blind from a rare condition called AZOOR 6 weeks ago, and all the lights from my exam yesterday fully blinded me for the day. I have to wear very dark shades to go outside now or to the store, and even then I'm absolutely legally blind with zero peripheral vision. My house is consistently so dark, guests run into shit lol
Dude is killing me. He has a cart, but he keeps carrying this bags...and acts like he can only put the stuff on the water bottle. JUST PUT IT IN THE CART!!!
Hopefully the cashiers are paid well figuring out the amount euros and dollars would be worth and how much it will be after taxes and having to give them a different currency in change and it looks like its freezing and boring in there
Everyone in pyongyang is privileged. For sure not the same between a diplomat and a cashier but they have the 'safest' life there. They more likely always have food to eat and probably even can use the privileged hospitals and best schools aswell.
Those aren't the American versions of those products, but American brands are imported from third party countries. If I had to guess, the Peoples Republics of China.
I’m so confused as to how the area is set up, so they don’t want American brands but yet half those brands you see are american, even the water jugs lmao
This is in the diplomatic compound/area. The store is only for foreigners part of diplomatic missions and party elites. Would be ridiculous for any country if the foreign missions have to fly in their own food because there are no products to buy. And no regime, even a communist one, can survive without keeping the elites happy
That's why they called it "the priviledge" store. It means only someone who made much money or has influence over the country like this man, Jaka Parker. He works in Indonesian Embassy Office for North Korea.
Until 1990 my country (PL) has also been frozen in time. Our shops for the privileged, carrying western products, were called Pewex. Mine was 1 min walking distance from my home, there’s a bakery there now. Of course no entry for my family.
I want to see the 'unpriveliged' store
To go there, you literally just step outside of this store and you are there.
Take an american store on black Friday, turn all the products to crap, and make it look like it hasn't been washed ever and there you go
Im guessing anything outside that particular store
That's basically every other store in NK.
Me too…
The background music makes it sounds like you're playing a minigame called 'don't let the north Koreans see your samsung'
Lmaoooooo
idk it feels like something i'd hear in bully mayb its just me
Casually buying in NK groceries
I thought the same thing.
Funny
People, read the description!! This is a shop for foreigners. Of course, North Koreans cannot buy Kit Kat or Pepsi. Only foreigners can to show them North Korea accepts western products
not local koreans. only high rankings one who and from the description: This store named Pyongyang Shop, which only several people who can access inside, only Foreigners and local Korean people who can get permission to be inside Diplomatic Compound (usually Korean people who works for foreign Organisations and embassies).
looks like you cant read
I just deleted like 4 comments because I did NOT read the description. To be honest, I didn't think NK had any Diplomatic Compounds.
@@somewhereupthere785
0:30
You don't need to read, but do you need help with visual comprehension?
I was thinking “capitalism in DPRK?”
American Marlboro cigarettes told me everything. There's no local civilians in the store. North Koreans not allowed to have anything American.
UK health warnings on the tobacco... but no UK tax stamp visible anywhere.
Given the fact its in North Korea it was more than likely smuggled out LOL
@@AmyC28713i think so, too. There‘s a lot of German products; like, fully German text. This reeeeally doesn’t look like export goods; more like stuff I could buy here in Aldi next door. I could imagine, this is smuggled; probably bought in regular stores in EU or US and then imported over to NK. Super weird.
@@TomJakobWOr just imported from the Chinese market and the Chinese sell that for the North Korean market
This store is for foriegners not locals, which explains why it is so nice.
Man thats dark
@@massive_dick_gaming It's true half the stores are a front a mirage they're not actually even shops just displayed like them I saw a guy recently go to NK he went to walk into a store he was stopped & told to wait while a runner got what the guy wanted from the "shop".
@@WhatwouldRoddyPiperdo m
@@devonwhite1653 m?
@@WhatwouldRoddyPiperdo I must’ve accidentally done that. Woops
I felt like I was under government supervision watching this video.
If you are not by now,you soon will be..
Mai, North Korea, China, Russia and many other 'progressive' nations have THOUSANDS of propaganda accounts on UA-cam and many social medias, both bots and humans.
@@detroit8092 VPNs -DON'T go online without one.
You're being watched by the government
@@detroit8092 You must be hungry.
I see this was recommended to everyone after 4 years
Yes
No
7 years for me
For me, it's 7
Of course
Everything is clean but depressing
where the fk is everybody its like a parallel universe
@@bengrey4856 Yes we're on planet Earth under the command of the Terran Empire
You want it to be Like The Willy Wonka Factory? a store is a store my
no people = clean
its normal i dont get it
Actually Im pretty sure this store would be permitted to be filmed. Tourists are allowed to film privileged areas because nk wants the world to think the whole country is like this
@anonymous why you think they are fake? In Idaho they are like $5-6 a pack..
If you go to a place that does not tax the crap out of them they will be rather cheap, like $2-3 a pack cheap
@@helpabrothawithasubisaiah5316 they don't sell marlboro cigarettes to north korea
@@TehScareM8 yeah, but they sell them to China and they will sell them to there
He was just diplomatic person from Indonesia that's why he can film
Is it just me or does this place look like it belongs to an airport
Там людей больше, на кладбище да же больше увидишь.
So odd seeing cigarettes stacked on the shelf like a normal item. But when you already know exactly who's coming to the store, theft and minors aren't a worry.
When I was in Germany 5 years ago it was pretty much the same way. In the US, in -some- areas, we do the same thing, but with cigars. Low crime rate do wonders.
@@kellogg6041 Here in Canada everything is behind the counter. The cigar humidors usually are on the customer side but they're always locked. You even need ID to get a lighter. It's federal law. The even banned flavoured cigarillos in most provinces. It's's not even about theft here, it's about minors not being able to buy it even though there's strict harsh laws against selling to minors.
@@kmac892 In Russia - public display of cigarettes is prohibited, so you can only buy behind the counter.
Energy drinks are 18+ only, they do enforce it strictly the same way as alcohol.
The Alcohol is sold only until 21:00 or 22:00 I can't remember, you can't buy alcohol at night. e-cigs are still sold but in separate vape shops, 18+ only, though they seem to be more relaxed about age restriction.
You can buy a lighter without an ID, well maybe if you are 12 they will refuse who knows...
Really weird seeing all those cartons of cigarettes up there (amazed American ones aren't banned) and then the black label of Smoking Kills😂. I wonder how much a carton costs there?
more odd there aren't any chinese brands at all
a privilege store in North Korea is a dollar store in Canada.
And usa on the low end 😅
Goes to a privileged store and buys bags of rice.
this aint a private store man this is store in usa called wonder prices check it up
@@davidgraham3102couldn't see anything on the store mentioned
5minutes of receipts and paperwork to buy a battery and a box of tissues sweet Jesus
@@detroit8092 Hello Daddy
😂
stop moaning dude
@@KhalDrogo76Well, that’s socialism for you. Never worked anywhere it’s been tried.
@@arnolddillWorks really well in El Salvador 🇸🇻 What are you on about?
His inability to properly load the cart was frustrating to me. Like move the top water jug and put that shit underneath. Don't balance it all on top.
Same
If either of you took the time to notice, those carts don't have a bottom rack.
@luphone2781 that's not what he's saying, genius. Move the jugs and put the small items down by the base of the water jugs. Nobody is talking about a bottom rack. He's saying bottom of the basket, not ontop of the water jugs. Sheesh.
What actually annoyed me more was the fact that when he noticed that he squeezed his tofu and squished it, instead of just buying it he sneakily went and put it back and got a new one...Now that's just wrong, where I come from if you break you buy it. Leaving it for the next customer, like someone wants to buy the tofu he squished is just really bad manners IMO
weird that the AI algorithm decided we should all see this after 6 years.
Same 😂
Wild
It's not AI stupid. Stop calling everything "AI"
It obviously wanted to get me slightly annoyed at him pissing about with the blue bottles.
6 years exactly.maybe will see us in 2029 again in the comments section when the Algorithm kicks in.
For all of you smart people "wow I see European products " its the chinese who trade with them
So the products are mostly or all made in China?
there r europe products because this is simply not a store in nk sorry to tell
@@microbeans No lmfao. China buys them from Western countries, they then trade them with North korea.
@@microbeans Not necessarily, but it's probably overstock from China's airports that they sell to North Korea for more than they bought it.
Marlboro Cigarettes are not European lol....
Some people are so stupid. Lmao. Just read the description, this guy's wife works in NK's Indonesian embassy. This store is for foreigners and diplomats ofc it has foreign products, and it's normal that they accept foreign currency.
North Korea only uses dollars and euros for foreigners
not some people but most of them.
Not just for foreigners, but also for rich north koreans. It's the equivalent to those stores in cuba where people with family in the US go to buy stuff
i was thinking about how easy it would be to shoplift here, but then i realized just how perfect and ordered everything was. considering how few people come through that store it would be figured out quickly something was missing and would be easy to guess who took it.
Rave Cat exactly 😂
To be honest it looks fcking amazing, I need to go visit NK lol.
@@Blahsheep have fun there bro
@@Ollum he hasn’t come back he has been missing for 6 years.
@@Blahsheep Hey mr guy, are you fine or are you good? Say 123 if you are in prison, if you aren't then say nothing.
The inefficiency with which this man shops hurts my head.
for real, I need to go shopping to heal my hurt soul😵💫🤕
Like bro left his boot open that whole time? Lmao
😂😂😂 thinking the same thing
Handles everything, buys three items. ugh.
Nice suit
8:30 ---- power outage in store (video music stops) 8:40 --- power returns (video music continues) nice touch
And the computer didn't turned off
Hahahaha😂
@@cicciobello6934backup power supply. Standard even in the West.
He's doin manual Backsounds from jukebox lol
Check the expiry date on the products cause I don't think any locals buy those things.
im so sorry man but this vid is one big lie. y? because this is a superstore here in australia called camelmart i was here in this store last week. store is in part of town with large china population so this is filth and lies sorry to distract
either way this store is only meant for foreigners lol
@@davidgraham3102 😂okay, I believe you.
I don't think the locals are even allowed there
This is really, really odd. The people in the back ground are also just picking up products and putting them back down. It's like the entire thing is one giant set and nothing is real.
I feel like the people who do that are probably just agents watching him
Also why is everything so big??
@@gardenscapeNastya SO they can see the items through squinty eyes.
@@rondobson1828 Rob there is no need to be racist.
@@gardenscapeNastya it’s not racist if there were no hateful intentions he was just making a joke that’s not called racism
I speak a bit of korean. The cashier asked: Did you touch everything again today ?
I hope thats true thats so funny.
He didn't buy anything except the water.
The "Privileged" store looks like just about any normal store in the rest of modern society...
You only just realised you're how much privilage you have.
But with less people and cleaner
It’s all appearances. It doesn’t have everything, just categorized average items
Unless you live in the third world
You mean western society
5:17 Music hit, I thought homeboy turned OG and was about to rob the joint
This still has me laughing. Thank you, so true. I love his random tunes just epic.
😂😂
Nas type beat
Old ass comment but this had me in tears 😭🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂😂😂
"Smoking Kills". Only place in the world where smoking doesn't shorten your lifespan.
@@ZuhairEDPBecause everything else in the country shortens their lifespan. Took me a second to understand what the main comment meant lmao
@@ZuhairEDP because malnutrition gets there first.
Most of this video seems to consist of this guy unnecessarily manipulating water bottles
I believe he is exchanging his empty bottles for full ones. I would imagine its difficult to get a hold of clean drinking water in NK.
@Baka578 they don't mean that. They mean how he keeps going back and forth touching them then walking away and back for no reason
Those cigarettes are black market intended for the UK, that's exactly how the health warnings and packaging used to look in 2016. We moved over to plain packaging in 2017 but there was a grace period where the old stock in your supply chains could still be sold, once you reached the deadline it had to be returned.
Notice the lack of holographic UK DUTY PAID tax stamp. Naughty.
Ooer!!!
No these are Swiss made
This feels like one of those nightmare-ish dreams that leave you unsure of wtf you've just seen but definitely fricked out and uncomfortable
Evelina Voltolini I feel the same and can't explain how i've watched about 20 videos about North Korea today...
@@danisantos3255 who would live they're ?
that music though x-x
Lol 🤣
I've HAD those kind of weird shopping Dreams! I wake up wonder WHAT was THAT I dreamt about and WHY!?
We've all gotten this in our recommendations now, huh?
bro wtf lmao
Just a casual reminder to drink water.
Haven’t had a smoke in months, now I’m craving a pack of Marlboro reds
Yep 🤔
Lol
This simple grocery scene in North Korea is considered privileged. Maybe we are the ones who are privileged and poverty and suffering are more widespread and normal.
the music makes this video feel like a comedy sketch ahahaha
Many of the packages strongly remind me of those you would find in an airport duty free area.. see the cigarettes and KitKat? That's all airport packaging
I've never been so angry at how someone has loaded a cart in my life.
Probably because he never does the shopping
It was beautiful lol 😅
Yes!!! They should throw in North Korean slave mining camp for ten year for outrage.
Get a life
@@joriankell1983 why are you telling people to get a life as you go comment to comment defending this man's factually bizarre shopping habits? It IS weird the way he is shopping. Why is it so frustrating to you that people wanna discuss it??? Sooo weird. This comment section is honestly cursed as fuck.
Wish we had things like this in the united states. I've only eaten wild birds and drank melted snow for ages
Bro my house literally blew down in a gust of wind I fucking hate living in the us
smh my town just got hit by its 5th nuke in a week i wish i could live in north korea where everything is safe
@dangolfishin I hate that I get that reference LOL
@@dempsey4212 lucky you had a house. I live in a tent provided to me by the American Red Cross. Thanks to the Supreme Leader of North Korea for providing the fabric my tent is made of.
UA-cam sent me that video too
That is the biggest kit Kat bar I've ever seen
😂😂
Looks like the kind you see at the airport
Brik Kat
@@rudemaminsynek5925😂hahaha
This man really bought the only tofu supply in North Korea
what a legend
He and his wife they can only eat certain types of foods
He is a muslim, he just eat what is a halal food.
@@davi6020that's pathetic
when you're the only customer in a well stocked super market like that...
it feels so eerie... like something is really wrong...
but then again it's north korea so....
posted 7 yrs ago and the comments are minutes old 🤷♀
UA-cam doing *it* again xD
It's coz it could been filmed yesterday and it'd be the exact same footage.
Yep 😂
Так и ты сюда не спроста пришёл...
The most unsettling thing about this video is the way you balanced stuff in your cart.
Yes what is he doing 😂
Would have been easier to just stack 3 crates, instead of balance bags on top of the water bottles.
Agree wkwkkwkwk I almost rolled my eye and thought, "omggg that is working"
I thought so too. He could've tucked that stuff down on the side of the water jugs. Balancing on top wasn't necessary.
Yes. Very annoyed.
I see so many German products on the shelves
It's like an aldi
German or Eastern Germany
Hallo, wie geht's denn so?
What do you mean???
Neleos even French products.
Why there are so many german brands? Even in german language so it's not even meant for export. As a german I didn't expect that.
I don't think any of those companies would export officially to NK, some items might even be sanctioned. They probably grey import products and brands from wherever they can.
same I noticed that too
they probably smuggle them out
@@epender China, most likely.
I love how the background music suddenly stopped playing as soon as the lights went out on 8:26 but then continued once the light went back up lmfaoOo 😂
1. Ask customer what currency they want to use.
2. Tell customer we don't accept that currency today.
3. Tell customer we can swap the currency they have for the currency we want.
4. Provide a bad exchange rate to gain a profit.
5. Take back the currency you just gave them for the groceries.
6. Wish them a lovely day and ask them to come back soon.
They’ve got it figured out!
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@@BangBang-hk4rg 👌
After 6years why tf algorithm recommends this to me?!
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Never seen anyone make such a big job of swapping out water bottles. This person seems very confused
This store is in a Diplomatic compound right behind the Vietnam Embassy only foreigners and local Koreans can access the store the local Koreans have to get permission to access the store but anybody that works in the embassy compound can access the store foreigners are allowed to access the store like if you work at one of the embassies or if your photographer like this gentleman is
Robert silva thank you for your beautiful comments May the force be with you I foresee you being a great Jedi Master you are very lucky to be trained by Master Qui-Gon Jinn I'll be going to Pyongyang North Korea to visit on a visiting tourist visa I'll let you know when I'll go if you want
He's also a diplomat, apparently.
Gotta love a country where you must be privileged to buy more water...
Water is not the privileged part
Crazy how money has different meaning there. He payed in dollars, change was in euros. I can't even tell how many currencies that wallet he opened has.
For those who are wondering why the computer/register didn't turn off when the electricity went out, since power outages or brownouts are common in these countries, desktops and monitors are always connected to a UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply), which is like a backup battery. When I lived in Burma with frequent power outages, I bought one specifically to power my 4G router for internet and another one to power my fan. (Don't ever run a fan with a UPS. You'll burn out the fan's motor and wear out the UPS quickly. At least I wasn't hot during those long outages.)
Yup I’ve seen people in Cuba also having these outages, but some last hours on end.
How strange this place must be for the ladies who work there. They must feel as if they were on the moon
I would seriously be taking stuff home until I was put in front of a firing squad.
@@OneOfDisease That made me laugh, but I wouldn't be surprised if your entire family got disappeared in such a situation.
You could seriously buy an AIRLINE Ticket at an Airport FASTER than Checking out Groceries .. LMAO
Who else got recommended this video 6 years later? 🤔😕
Wtff
me..
The LORD rebuke you.
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same here
I find it just slightly humorous the cigarette cartons have the big ol “smoking will kill” on them as if lung cancer is the biggest of your worries there
They're imported from Europe so retain the same packaging.
Then I don’t get what are they for?
Seems everyone has been gifted by the algorithm this video at the same time
The register computer is just a show.
You can the see the lady write something on a paper and also there is a calculator.
just.. put... the food.. in the damned cart. Anyone else getting annoyed at that? he's got plenty of room around the water jugs, but he stacks the rice up on the side and carries the other half of the bags in his hands.
Nolan Zinke-Warrack It started with him using his steering wheel in a strange way and it never stopped after that.
I came for a video of North Korea but ended up staying for him doing the the most basic things in a very strange way.
The background music was unnecessary. Would’ve preferred the ambient sounds.
Next time I go grocery shopping, this song is going to run through my head!
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Why what why do you buy the stuff with euro or dollar in this store??? Is that even allowed not being in Europe nor America?
gyermekkoromban. they want 'hard' currency, as they get a lot more N Korean $ for it. Old school corruption
Because their currency is almost worthless. They use euro and dollar so that the foreigners don't need to bring tons of dprk won cash.
I kept thinking "something's missing". Oh yeah. People. That's what's missing. People.
This is inside the Diplomatic compound that means only the people from the embassies and their families are Allowed to go shopping HERE Only maybe the locals if they got permission Read the Description this is Not propaganda this is his Daily life in Pyongyang he's an independent photographer his wife works at the Embassy
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands are literally eating dirt just miles from this place..
Oh I'd love to see a video or image about that, you must have some right?
@@hust_sami_slaveI hope you are being sarcastic and would not actually get any joy from seeing people starve.. To confirm, the general rice provided to the masses is so unrefined that it literally has dirt and rocks in it, a simple web search will find you more on this.. As for videos, titles as follows:
--- North Korea : Starving 23 year-old Homeless Woman (Rimjin-gang/ASIAPRESS)
--- The 1997 Famine That Still Affects North Korea Today
--- North Korea's starving children
Said who?
@@hope_ Yeonmi Park said she witnessed people starve to death many times. You should look her up.
@@hust_sami_slaveyour commune has wifi?
When you read most of the comments and notice that no one reads the video description.
6 years later, why is this being recommended to me and everyone else? Your algorithm is broken!
Also low key jealous over the selection.
1.24 oh my god- Wesergold juice!! That factory is literally 10 min away from my home! I had no idea that this juice is sold outside of Germany, let alone in NK 😳
The lack of buyers is both sad and unsettling
and the shoppers you do see are fakes so creepy like a back room
They keep the batteries behind glass but they have cartons of cigarettes just chilling
Other countries: "pictures of throats and lungs after smoking"
North Korea: "smoking fucking kills you"
Every European country has the "smoking kills" on cigarette packs.
I wonder why all the comments are from only a day ago or less
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That's more food than most North Koreans see in their entire lifetime.
I wonder about the expiration date of the products, if there's not so many people buying...
Because it's a store for foreigners and diplomats, not for the North korean people.
The tofus are still fresh tho. I think they do regular thorough checking.
casualy puts copyright free music over him secretly recording in literal north korea
you know
nothing illegal about it
just another day in this man's life
Is 6 year from is 2023 and in this video it like 2016 or 2017
@@JUST2y You're right let's just ignore the fact that UA-cam is banned in North korea
@@REC-L He’s indonesian not north korean and hes an embassy for idonesia or his wife thats the reason he can post and all that stuff he’s doing ig
Well, at least the Tobacco packaging in N. Korea is sure to inform you of the dangers of smoking
I think that a big part of viewers can't understand what's special about this store, because you’ve been going to exactly the same stores near your home every day for decades. This kind of shops ONLY for foreigns/diplomats/locals with currency (US dollars/euro/CNY). Get some dollars for locals is difficult, it's real only on the black market. The assortment in state shops for locals looks completely different, much worse. In USSR we had the same kind of shops, it called "Beryozka", you can read in wiki about this.
Nowadays in DPRK you can have a private little grocery store, but again it's difficult, need to get a food in bulk quantities (that I don't understand how, may be corrupt way through China, I don't hear about NKs in Russia), arrange with some government organization to register the premises with it and sometimes to pay a bribes.
Wow, its so sad to hear the similarities
Privileged kids in NK, ooooh a toblerone
Normal kids in the US: EWWWWW A TOBLERONE
Do you really see kids in the US eating Toblerone‽
So in order to shop there you must pay with euro or dollar?
Yes. NK is OK with strong foreign reserve currency, Euro is preferred I think but US Dollar good too. Same with a lot of countries though, foreigners want their money to have actual value and the state is OK with holding the currency too since it's stable and globally tradeable.
"Madam let me drive you home" is apparently the best pick up line in North Korea
Ayy bb lemme /drive/ you in my /car/
straight trying to create another North Korean
@@casewhite5048 why would an Indonesian talking to an Indonesian woman create a North Korean?
Does this store sell onions?
This guy's cart loading method is distressing me
He acts very abnormal and annoying
@@cringy8095 dude is super fucking awkward it was so distracting
@@PandaPelley Thought I was the only one... I guess he's uberstressed by filming.
Western world was and will always the true poor of the world.
Indonesia As The Peace keeper (North & South Korea, Israel & Palestine & Lebanon, etc..)
And USA, Europe, whole western world as peace breaker (nothing new with those eternal criminals the real third world, west = sunset, darkness).
Indonesia + China + Russia + North Korea Together At The Same Time Nuclear Bomb To Europe + Middle East including Turkey and surrounding including Pakistan-India + USA = Done Endless Dumb World.
Time To Clean Up The World From Those Illnesses from West, The Sunset, The Eternal Darkness.
Yes to World Reset.
#INDONESIA
Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, etc
All dumb Middle Eastern-African not complete multilracial not multilingual never been living around the world all alone since childhood
Don't be surprised Jews/Christians/Muslims are pathetically idiots.
Anything built on criminality will not last.
Born a complete multiracial multilingual Indonesian living around the world all alone since childhood, I shared this on my social media:
"Indonesia was not, is not and will never be Islamic country, majority of the muslims are just blind followers the same stupid as your forefathers never studied intensively those stupid stone age medieval hocus pocus Judaism/Christianity/Islam of very poor Middle East since very young age, you don't even speak the language fluently not even understanding it, not a complete multiracial not multilingual never been living around the world all alone since childhood but the same never evolved dumb apes stuck inside your tiny boxes your entire life.
Western, Middle East, North Africa = Filthy world including faking world map since Mercator projection 1569.
Real Indonesia is Huge as Russia and even much richer, Coffee is native to Indonesia not brought by Dutch liars including lies in history of Indonesia even at formal school!
Our oil and gas only are much more than whole Middle East."
Stop calling real rich natural resources as third world.
Real 3rd world is that your natural resources are so poor and colonizing others for centuries long sabotaging the history, stealing, killing, attacking, etc.
Real Rich will never do way Middle East, Europe, USA, etc has been doing.
Because West and The Middle East, North Africa are the real third world.
So sorry Egypt isn't the oldest, even Egypt is very poor, very dry, far off the center of the Equator line.
Most highest humidity on Earth: Indonesia, meaning many much older artifacts has decayed much faster than just few thousands years Egypt.
And Judaism/Christianity/Islam are just the same dumb.
Even most of people know nothing about much older ancient modern civilization here in Indonesia before mega eruption of Toba supervolcano of Sumatra 75,000 years ago.
Including 25,000 years old Gunung Padang pyramid in Indonesia.
#israel #palestine #lebanon #iran #iraq #ukraine #russia #kashmir #egypt #yemen
you are insane@@RIZFERD
This guy isn't efficient at shopping whatsoever
j. Baker he's in North Korea, he probably doesn't get much practice...
So they use the euro or the dollar,very strange....I wonder how they get payed for work....is it cash in hand or do they have banks....so many questions.
What’s with the water jugs? Is the tap water not safe
kit kat and tolberone.. 99% of the people there probably hasnt seen any chocolate in their life
That's not true at all lol
Wow that's really expensive for some rice, tofu, and water...
As someone who works in retail I find it so odd how they never once smile. They seem polite enough but are very strictly professional. The lighting is so dark compared to practically every store here in the U.S., but as someone who is slightly sensitive to bright lights it's kind of nice. The rather crowded aspect of it reminds me of this little grocery store in the American embassy in Spain, very tight and there was just enough room for you to walk between the aisles, also similar brightness. It was quiet, slightly eerie if you're used to typical retail stores, but cozy and got the job done.
You don't need to look better and friendlier than the other stores when there aren't other stores around. You also get no price competition, so you're screwed.
I hear you on the brightness, I started going blind from a rare condition called AZOOR 6 weeks ago, and all the lights from my exam yesterday fully blinded me for the day. I have to wear very dark shades to go outside now or to the store, and even then I'm absolutely legally blind with zero peripheral vision. My house is consistently so dark, guests run into shit lol
In the US there's a tight competition in the retail business hence why you need to give the best service. That's not the case in NK.
@@MegaKat that is quite interesting, hope you can deal with that lol
Dude is killing me. He has a cart, but he keeps carrying this bags...and acts like he can only put the stuff on the water bottle.
JUST PUT IT IN THE CART!!!
I know it's weird 🤦
Couldn't watch anymore
legit making me mad lol
Seems secret agents have zero skills shopping
The music takes away the oppressiveness of it all.
Makes a prison camp feel like a dancehall.
What's oppressive about a store?
@@lunakurouwu3935yeah. that was just a normal store..
Good thing he added music to this vlog. It would be extra depressing..... so cold & grey looking.
The music makes it even more tense. lol I like how when the power went off, so did the music. Then it resumed once the power came back on.
Hopefully the cashiers are paid well figuring out the amount euros and dollars would be worth and how much it will be after taxes and having to give them a different currency in change and it looks like its freezing and boring in there
It's probably considered a pretty decent job, but I doubt it pays a lot.
Everyone in pyongyang is privileged. For sure not the same between a diplomat and a cashier but they have the 'safest' life there. They more likely always have food to eat and probably even can use the privileged hospitals and best schools aswell.
8:40, That was hilarious when the lights went out, so did your music. When the lights came back on, so did your music. 😂😂😂
Hm, interesting to see that they have a lot of European products. (I saw a lot of german products)
"Service introduction to islam"
Something tells me that's not a class
Tf how does he have Euro and dollar and a car and a go pro and WiFi and lives in that country like? What?
How about reading the description for once.
Communism was supposed to give all people equality, but on Jaka Parker shows that it is quite the opposite.
Can't when the US isolates you from the world
@@DonVergas-o1z Communism is a completely poor system since capitalism has such a strong impact on the economy of NK.
How does North Korea have foreign products from America?
Probably are chinese copies
Those aren't the American versions of those products, but American brands are imported from third party countries. If I had to guess, the Peoples Republics of China.
I’m so confused as to how the area is set up, so they don’t want American brands but yet half those brands you see are american, even the water jugs lmao
Not just American, at 1:24 you see many German brands too (wesergold, Capri Sun, Albi)
@@kgmiller. Capri Sun is German?
This is in the diplomatic compound/area. The store is only for foreigners part of diplomatic missions and party elites. Would be ridiculous for any country if the foreign missions have to fly in their own food because there are no products to buy. And no regime, even a communist one, can survive without keeping the elites happy
@@IceNineThrills yeah
That's why they called it "the priviledge" store. It means only someone who made much money or has influence over the country like this man, Jaka Parker. He works in Indonesian Embassy Office for North Korea.
Brudda looking way too suspicious picking everything up and putting it down
it appears as if many of the items are counterfeit... no surprise. The names are just a little off, a letter here or there.
Lol! You might be off ! Black market goods brought in from China and other 3party sellers!
Man it's so insane how everything in that country looks like it's from the 1950s , nothing is modern looking.
Until 1990 my country (PL) has also been frozen in time.
Our shops for the privileged, carrying western products, were called Pewex.
Mine was 1 min walking distance from my home, there’s a bakery there now. Of course no entry for my family.
PL?
same for my country iran, you can barely find modern western items or food branches in here, almost everything is imported from china@@buoazej
I dunno, bro. A lot of that shit looked modern. Not recent but definitely early 2000s.
He means Poland @dustyc324