{"id":49464,"date":"2021-09-08T14:58:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T05:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=49464"},"modified":"2021-09-08T15:01:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T06:01:25","slug":"hyesan-officials-intensify-crackdowns-street-vendors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/hyesan-officials-intensify-crackdowns-street-vendors\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyesan officials intensify crackdowns on street vendors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Personnel from Yanggang Province\u2019s Ministry of Social Security are engaged in a frenzied crackdown against street vendors, arresting any they encounter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in Yanggang Province told Daily NK on Aug. 29 that \u201con Aug. 24 a cat-and-mouse chase took place in Hyehung District, Hyesan, between street vendors and personnel from Ministry of Social Security and local inspection teams,\u201d and that \u201cthis kind of thing happens almost every day now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As part of their efforts to acquire money for the purchase of daily sustenance, street vendors bring less than KPW 150,000 worth of sundry goods and food to sell at the entrances of alleyways. However, local police are cracking down on this practice and confiscating the entire inventories of the vendors without caring about why they are selling goods this way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The average daily income of a street vendor is approximately KPW 2,000 to 4,000, but the fines required to recover confiscated items can be more than twice this amount, ranging from a minimum of KPW 5,000 to a maximum of KPW 10,000. The source explained that, as a result, if vendors are caught in the crackdown and pay a fine, their families go hungry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under these circumstances, vendors make every effort to escape the grasp of the authorities when they sell goods on the street.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41618\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41618\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/6-min.jpg\" alt=\"Street market in Hyesan, Ryanggang Province rice sellers dollar rate\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/6-min.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/6-min-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/6-min-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/6-min-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/6-min-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this undated photograph, North Koreans are seen peddling goods at a street market in Hyesan, Yanggang Province \/ Image: Daily NK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Choe, 43, was arrested on Aug. 22 in Hyesan District while selling vegetables in an alleyway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Choe pleaded with the authorities, saying \u201cI just got here, and I have no money. Give me a break this time, and I\u2019ll pay the fine as soon as I sell something,\u201d but the officers responded by taunting: \u201cWhy are you doing business if you have no money to pay the fines? Going around and enforcing this crackdown is hard on us, too.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Choe grew heated, responding: \u201cIf I can\u2019t earn today, my entire family will go hungry. I have no choice but to take insults from people like you while I break my back selling from dawn until dusk. You call us traitors? Why can\u2019t we do business in peace?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe police have recently been carrying out a frenzied crackdown against street vendors under the pretext of enforcing an order issued last April to wipe out the businesses of street vendors,\u201d the source said, adding, \u201cTheir wallets have gotten lighter because of the extended border closure, and they\u2019re cracking down on street vendors and levying fines for cigarette money.\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\/%eb%8f%99%ec%82%ac%eb%ac%b4%ec%9e%a5-%ea%b8%b8%ea%b1%b0%eb%a6%ac-%ec%9e%a5%ec%82%ac%ea%be%bc%ea%b3%bc-%eb%aa%b8%ec%8b%b8%ec%9b%80-%ec%8b%ac%eb%b6%80%eb%a6%84%ea%be%bc\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personnel from Yanggang Province\u2019s Ministry of Social Security are engaged in a frenzied crackdown against street vendors, arresting any they encounter. A source in Yanggang Province told Daily NK on Aug. 29 that \u201con Aug. 24 a cat-and-mouse chase took place in Hyehung District, Hyesan, between street vendors and personnel from Ministry of Social Security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":41618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-economy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hyesan officials intensify crackdowns on street vendors - North Korea News \u2014 Daily NK | Latest DPRK Updates 2026<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/hyesan-officials-intensify-crackdowns-street-vendors\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hyesan officials intensify crackdowns on street vendors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Personnel from Yanggang Province\u2019s Ministry of Social Security are engaged in a frenzied crackdown against street vendors, arresting any they encounter. 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