{"id":52008,"date":"2022-06-17T16:45:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T07:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=52008"},"modified":"2022-06-17T13:47:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T04:47:36","slug":"s-pyongan-province-authorities-forcibly-mobilize-street-vendors-to-weed-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/s-pyongan-province-authorities-forcibly-mobilize-street-vendors-to-weed-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"S. Pyongan Province authorities forcibly mobilize street vendors to weed fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">South Pyongan Province authorities are tightening crack downs on street vendors once again, and vendors caught in the crackdowns are being pressed into weeding fields, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in South Pyongan Province told Daily NK on Tuesday that police in Pyongsong have recently been intensifying crackdowns on street commerce.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSeven street vendors who were selling food and vegetables streetside were busted by police early this month and dragged off to pick weeds at a local farm for five days before being freed,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, police in Pyongsong have been working hard to bust street vendors after streetside commerce was reinvigorated with the recent easing of lockdowns imposed to deal with the spread of COVID-19.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said that street vendors in Pyongsong are suffering because police are confiscating their wares without compensation, and dragging them off to local farms to pick weeds in rice paddies and fields.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One merchant who was busted \u2014 a woman in her 30s with a three-year-old child \u2014 reportedly collapsed while doing five days of uncompensated labor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When she was arrested, she pleaded with police to let her go so she could \u201cearn enough to at least feed her child rice porridge,\u201d telling them that the child \u201ccould not get up due to malnutrition.\u201d However, the police pretended not to listen, forced her into a car and drove her to a farm, where they put her to work picking weeds from a corn field.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overworked, she ultimately collapsed in the field and was hospitalized, said the source.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPolice officials have long been cracking down on street vendors to eliminate non-socialist phenomena, but then pivoted to wage a clean up operation against streetside commerce as part of COVID-19 quarantine efforts over the last two years,\u201d the source said. \u201cRecent crackdowns, however, are aimed at providing support to farms suffering labor shortages.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said street vendors are at the \u201cvery bottom of the ladder,\u201d people who live on what they earn day-to-day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cStreet vendors have no power to do anything as the authorities simply crack down on their activities without giving them even a gram of rice,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Translated by David Black. Edited by Robert Lauler.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20220614-3\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Pyongan Province authorities are tightening crack downs on street vendors once again, and vendors caught in the crackdowns are being pressed into weeding fields, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 A source in South Pyongan Province told Daily NK on Tuesday that police in Pyongsong have recently been intensifying crackdowns on street commerce. \u201cSeven street vendors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":42954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,1360],"tags":[794,1098],"class_list":["post-52008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-society","tag-south-pyongan-province","tag-pyongsong"],"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>S. 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