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Korean farm workers push back against harvest allocations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Farm workers in North Korea are expressing frustration over receiving small allocations of the fall harvest despite their year-round labor, with tensions exemplified by a recent confrontation between a worker and manager in North Hwanghae province\u2019s Yonan county over crop distribution.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>During the harvest distribution, farm workers receive compensation in both cash and kind for their work over the past year, based on their attendance and performance. Points are allocated to each worker reflecting the number of days they worked and their level of effort. Those who have contributed more significantly to the farm&#8217;s operations are awarded additional points.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yonan county <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">farmer in his mid-forties surnamed Kim (a pseudonym) had gone out to the fields each day, taking on arduous assignments, to ensure his family would be well-fed. But his actual share of the distribution fell far short of his expectations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When harvest allocations were conducted on Nov. 15, Kim received 150 kilograms of rice, 100 kilograms of corn and 50 kilograms of wheat, all unthreshed. While that adds up to 300 kilograms, after threshing the edible part of the grain will only weigh about 250 kilograms \u2014 not enough to feed a family of three for the next year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The family&#8217;s sole additional income came from the sale of vegetables from their garden by Kim&#8217;s wife. Consequently, Kim worked more diligently than his peers, never missing a day on the farm, in an effort to secure as much additional food as possible. He anticipated receiving 600 points, which would be two to three times more than what other workers received, yet he was only awarded 120 points.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kim confronted his team leader directly, demanding that he ought to receive at least half of what he should have earned, if not the whole portion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was particularly incensed about another team member \u2014 a crony of the team leader \u2014 who had received the same number of points despite doing little work. The team member in question had been allowed to only work a couple days a week even during the busy season because he had supplied the team with fertilizer and machine parts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kim had felt obliged to complain about such an unfair situation. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the team leader dismissed Kim\u2019s complaint out of hand, insisting that the distribution had followed regulations, and told Kim to keep his opinions to himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAt this rate, Kim\u2019s family is likely to run out of food by March, potentially forcing them to borrow money or food,&#8221; the source said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Then they\u2019ll struggle to pay back their loans in the fall as their economic situation gets worse and worse. That\u2019s why farm workers aren\u2019t motivated to work themselves to the bone,&#8221; he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Daily NK works with a network of sources in North Korea, China, and elsewhere. For security reasons, their identities remain anonymous.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\"><em>Please send any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20241126-2\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farm workers in North Korea are expressing frustration over receiving small allocations of the fall harvest despite their year-round labor, with tensions exemplified by a recent confrontation between a worker and manager in North Hwanghae province\u2019s Yonan county over crop distribution.\u00a0 During the harvest distribution, farm workers receive compensation in both cash and kind for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":61989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,869],"tags":[123,767,924,1691],"class_list":["post-61988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-agriculture","tag-farming","tag-food","tag-north-hwanghae-province","tag-distribution"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Not enough&#039;: N. 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