Posted on 12/28/2010 10:56:24 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Skinny jeans, adult films, human excrement sell 'like hot cakes' in North Korea
* From: NewsCore * December 29, 2010 5:27AM
SKINNY jeans, adult films and human excrement are among some of the most wanted items for consumers in North Korea.
Kim Young-soo, a professor at Seoul's Sogang University who has interviewed several recent defectors from the Communist country, said that the items were selling "like hot cakes".
Other popular items sold in North Korea included TV dramas and instant noodles, he said.
Yonhap news agency reported that shops began selling human excrement to deal with acute shortages of fertiliser in North Korea.
"Each household used to use human excrement as fertilizer, but because it's hard to keep up with the amount, human manure shops showed up at markets," Professor Kim said.
Skinny jeans also became popular items for sale in the North after a ban on fashionable trousers was lifted.
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Not surprising. They're probably the only kind that don't fall off the average NORK.
“human excrement”
WTF?
People aren’t eating enough to keep up with their own supply. NK is an obscenity and that the world hasn’t stepped in and put an end to the horror is unconscionable.
They lost me at “skinny jeans”...
I don’t understand that myself. But, then they are so used to not having anything and do nothing by themselves, it would be a hundred years before that country functioned on it’s own.
Dangit. I just flushed a fortune down the drain..
They should just use Kim Chee...the smell is the same.
At least their carbon footprints are low.
We tried. It was called the Korean War and we lost 53,000 + Americans. Thank China.
But Kimchee tastes good.
We could have an ‘arms for poop’ agreement brokered by a guy from New Mexico who’s full of crap .
That's what they SAY.
A Russian once told me, "In my village, we called it 'sausage' and fought over it!" But I am sure HE was joking. Wasn't he?
Socialism does that.
another war we were not permitted to win.....
I like it too. Found a local place where they make it.
“Hey Sung, did you get any good sh*t for Christmas?”
Each spring, the Ringling Circus plays at Madison Square Garden in NYC. For years, the circus struggled to dispose of the prodigous amount of manure produced by the elephants. About 30 years ago, after the NY Times had an article about how elephant crap is a highly nutritous fertilizer, they started receiving calls asking if it can be purchased. Today, the circus does a well, "s**tpile" of business selling elephant poop. It's funny to see the MBs, SUVs and BMWs pulling under the garden, and having bags of the stuff loaded aboard so that all the eco-wackso in Manhattan can fertilize their roof gardens..
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