Which businesses will be hot if North Korea opens its market?

The Korea Times ^ | June 2, 2018 | Casey Lartigue Jr.

[2ndDivisionVet]

There’s nothing in it for them. How many newspapers endorsed Trump?

[Fungi]

Freedom. Food, guns, and everything that is currently outlawed.

[greedo]

light bulbs

[SpaceBar]

A preposterous question from the outset since no one knows the circumstances under which NK would “open its markets”. It’s a failed, miserable, isolated, culturally stunted, thoroughly brainwashed communist hellhole, smelling of death and fecal matter that would require decades to modernize and acclimate to being part of a larger world. They’re not going to be snatching up Kia’s and Samsung Galaxies like hotcakes anytime soon.

[Equine1952]

Reading your post which I tend to agree with. I had a thought about what they would snatch up. Hotcakes and maple syrup along with freedom warm clothes and a little chance at cleaning up there country and security for their kids. Not much really but then they ain’t got much. Beats the hell out of war.

[Reno89519]

Condoms

[Vigilanteman]

Very interesting map. A few dots here and there to denote port cities or naval bases. The only large dots are Pyongyang, seat of the ruling class and a little cluster along the Yalu River port of entry to China.

Otherwise, a very agrarian economy. I'd guess the first exports would be simple stuff like seeds and fertilizer or at least kits to break down human waster to safer fertilizer.

[TChad]

I have higher expectations because of Trump, I did not expect anything from Bush or Obama because they were typical politicians. Trump is a real businessman, if he doesn't see a good deal then he won't move.

Very sensible. She gets it.

[grey_whiskers]

Basic foodstuffs.

And / or alcohol.

[Vendome]

[Cowboy Bob]

Money

They don’t have any, and need lots of it!

[2ndDivisionVet]

Another market for our meats, grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts, dairy and liquor.

[SpaceBar]

So I give you a wheelbarrow full of grubs and tree bark and you give me meats, grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts, dairy and liquor? That's quite the business model.

[ALASKA]

Puppy Helper™️

[jonascord]

Major appliances. Washers, dryers, electric heaters, dish washers, vacuum cleaners, dvd players.

Communists put these kind of "luxuries" way down on the production list, and a guy I know rounded up hundreds of second hand appliances, rewired them, and shipped them to the former USSR.

Made a fortune.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Uncle Don and Uncle Moon will be paying for the foodstuffs as we rush our top people to the Rare Earth, Gold and Platinum fields to dig up the $30 TRILLION or more in deposits. How ‘bout that business model? Too bad for the Japanese that they had to bomb Pearl Harbor and lose such a valuable colony by doing so.

[SpaceBar]

So send in the earth moving equipment and take what we want? Who gets paid for the mining rights? Well, if we use the failed USSR as any indication, it will be some educated well-connected high-ranking minister of whatever in the Kim regime, not the aforementioned villager subsisting on beetle larvae and methamphetamine. Point is that NK is so dysfunctional now, that simply going in there amounts to raping a person in a coma. They have no defenses. It’s not like they are a country of college educated norwegians marooned there six months ago.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Did that keep us from taking two continents (three if you count Australia) from indigenous tribesmen? No, and it won’t stop us this time with those kinds of stakes involved. At least they’ll get better food, shelter and education than they’ve been receiving.

[SpaceBar]

So rape it is.

[LukeL]

Think, clothing, food, and medical supplies. Appliances will need to wait until a stable power grid can be developed. For the North Koreans a store that never ran out of things like rice, corn, and soy products would be a blessing. Just think about if and when a rural North Korean can raise 3-5 chickens for his family and have fresh eggs every day. Right now they probably get 1-2 servings of animal protein a week if they are lucky.