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Korea renews efforts to crack down on &#8220;8.3 Earnings&#8221; scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities have renewed efforts to crack down on a workplace exemption scheme called &#8220;8.3 Earnings&#8221; that allows workers to engage in private business activities, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cCrackdowns on businesses and individuals participating in the 8.3 Earnings scheme have been surging recently,\u201d a Ryanggang-based source told Daily NK on May 11.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMany business managers are under a lot of stress because of these crackdowns,\u201d the source added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The crackdowns are hitting businesses and individuals especially hard given the current dire state of the economy caused by the government\u2019s COVID-19 prevention policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 8.3 Earnings scheme allows workers to pay a specified fee each month to their place of employment so they can skip going to work and conduct their own private businesses instead.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both businesses and workers widely regard the scheme as a win-win: Businesses do not have to pay salaries and can still earn an income while workers are able to earn money through private business activities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The recent crackdowns could not have come at a worse time, given the current dire state of the economy. North Koreans are reportedly complaining about the government\u2019s focus on enforcing tougher crackdowns instead of coming up with policies to improve the economy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Still, North Korean authorities cannot help but pay attention to the side effects of what they call \u201cthe spread of capitalist culture.\u201d In fact, the government is pushing back against 8.3 Earnings as part of efforts to root out \u201canti-socialist phenomena.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMany have pointed out that the state has no real role in individuals earning money anymore and that this is why [the government] wants to reassert control,\u201d the source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c[North Korea\u2019s leadership] has made it known that the Cabinet will now be reasserting control over the economy, which suggests the state will take \u2018legal action\u2019 against the 8.3 Earnings scheme,\u201d the source added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many businesses are reportedly scrambling to organize their books. Many business people seem to think that they will be unable to evade the crackdowns through bribes like in the past.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNowadays, there are \u20188.3 Work Units\u2019 in many companies so the crackdowns are bringing about widespread discontent,\u201d the source explained.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt would make more sense [for the government] to get rid of the 8.3 Work Units first and then conduct crack downs, but they seem to be putting the cart before the horse,\u201d he noted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Primary (\ud2b9\uae09) factories along with first and second-tier companies benefit from the 8.3 Earnings scheme, which means that getting rid of the scheme could harm factories and other businesses, the source added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>*Translated by Gabriela Bernal<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%E5%8C%97-%EC%BD%94%EB%A1%9C%EB%82%98-%EB%B0%A9%EC%97%AD-%EA%B2%BD%EC%A0%9C%EB%82%9C%EC%97%90-%EB%8F%8C%EC%97%B0-%EC%A3%BC%EC%88%98%EC%9E%85%EC%9B%90-8-3%EB%8B%A8%EC%86%8D-%EA%B8%B0%EC%97%85\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean authorities have renewed efforts to crack down on a workplace exemption scheme called &#8220;8.3 Earnings&#8221; that allows workers to engage in private business activities, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 \u201cCrackdowns on businesses and individuals participating in the 8.3 Earnings scheme have been surging recently,\u201d a Ryanggang-based source told Daily NK on May 11.\u00a0 \u201cMany [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":44784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,645],"tags":[100,763],"class_list":["post-44783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-economy","tag-markets","tag-covid-19"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>N. 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