{"id":47138,"date":"2020-12-07T15:22:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T06:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=47138"},"modified":"2020-12-07T15:23:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T06:23:04","slug":"lockdown-impacts-kimchi-making-activities-chongjin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/lockdown-impacts-kimchi-making-activities-chongjin\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown impacts kimchi-making activities in Chongjin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Residents of Chongjin, North Hamgyong Province, are reportedly complaining of hardships with travel inside the city blocked and markets closed to stop the spread of COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Thursday that inter-district travel in Chongjin has been blocked \u201cas an emergency measure by the government to stop the spread of the infectious disease [COVID-19].\u201d Locals are unable to prepare kimchi \u201cas they are unable to buy ingredients for the kimchi-making season such as cabbage,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, loudspeaker vehicles from the Chongjin party committee\u2019s propaganda department have been going around downtown residential districts daily since mid-November, issuing dire warnings that \u201csince the infectious disease is spreading, residents must not leave their own district for any reason.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, with patrols &#8211; including security personnel &#8211; guarding all downtown roads, cars or carts carrying cabbage to and fro are nowhere to be seen, despite it being the height of the busy kimchi-making season, according to the source.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEvery year around this time, Chongjin residents make kimchi with cabbage brought in surrounding farms or farmers\u2019 private gardens, or with cabbage smuggled in from China, but this year they can\u2019t even think of making kimchi with the distribution [of goods] halted and cabbage prices soaring,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39902\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39902\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39902\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/\uccad\uc9c4\uac00\ubc29\uacf5\uc7a51-1-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"Chongjin Bag Factory in North Korea\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/\uccad\uc9c4\uac00\ubc29\uacf5\uc7a51-1-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/\uccad\uc9c4\uac00\ubc29\uacf5\uc7a51-1-768x468.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/\uccad\uc9c4\uac00\ubc29\uacf5\uc7a51-1-696x425.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/\uccad\uc9c4\uac00\ubc29\uacf5\uc7a51-1-689x420.jpg 689w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/\uccad\uc9c4\uac00\ubc29\uacf5\uc7a51-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Chongjin Bag Factory \/ Image: Rodong Sinmun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Normally, a household would spend RMB 200 (about USD 30) for cabbage to make kimchi, but this year, they have to spend RMB 1,000 (about USD 152), causing exasperation among locals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On top of that, North Korean authorities have shut down downtown markets, driving out all the sellers, who must now sell their wares on the move.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWith markets closed for the time being, locals near the Sunam Market have moved to the embankment of the Susong Stream to trade their wares,\u201d said the source. \u201cEven then, security personnel and patrols kick them out, so they are selling their goods on the move.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Locals are reportedly complaining about the situation, saying that authorities \u201cshould allow them a livelihood even as they try to control the infectious disease [COVID-19]\u201d and \u201ceveryone will starve to death at this rate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%ec%b2%ad%ec%a7%84%ec%8b%9c-%ea%b5%ac%ec%97%ad-%ea%b0%84-%ec%9c%a0%ed%86%b5-%ea%b8%88%ec%a7%80%c2%b7%ec%8b%9c%ec%9e%a5-%ed%8f%90%ec%87%84%ea%b9%80%ec%9e%a5-%eb%b0%b0%ec%b6%a7%ea%b0%92\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Chongjin, North Hamgyong Province, are reportedly complaining of hardships with travel inside the city blocked and markets closed to stop the spread of COVID-19. 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