Tag: private business
Wonsan’s young workers choose bicycle deliveries over state assignments despite forced...
The Socialist Patriotic Youth League has ordered immediate investigations and forced labor punishments for members skipping assigned work to pursue personal business in Wonsan's...
N. Korean workers turn to day labor for quick cash
Day labor markets have boomed across North Korea as farming season drives up demand for workers at collective farms and various agency support farms.
A...
North Korea probes granite mine corruption
Prosecutors have launched a corruption investigation into the management and sale of minerals from Osoksan Granite Mine.
"The Nampo party committee sent city prosecutors to...
Wage hikes widen N. Korean income gap 18 months after reform
A year and a half has passed since the North Korean cabinet issued a directive to "increase statutory wages paid monthly to workers in...
N. Korean smugglers import used vehicles as transportation business grows
North Korea is smuggling used vehicles, including four-door trucks and motorcycles, into Hyesan. These vehicles are in high demand among private businesspeople who use...
N. Korean party members quietly turn to private business while on...
Party members in North Korea are increasingly taking official leave from their duties to secretly engage in private commerce and money-making activities in cities...
North Korea cracks down on vice in beauty salons, bathhouses
North Korean authorities have vowed to stamp out illicit activities in public service facilities, targeting beauty salons, bathhouses and similar establishments allegedly turned into...
N. Korean donju increasingly turn to betting on sports matches for...
North Korea's rich entrepreneurs, known as donju, are increasingly betting large sums of money on games featuring former professional athletes hired for the purpose....
N. Korea’s private business grows amid systematic extortion
North Korean administrative agencies are increasingly permitting private business activities, while simultaneously exploiting these businesses through systematic extortion.
A Daily NK source in North Pyongan...
More and more N. Koreans turn to 8.3-earnings to make ends...
The number of people who pay their official employers money to avoid going to work and concentrate on their own private businesses is increasing....
