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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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What do you suggest the world do?
The Koreans(N or S) have ALWAYS used “human excrement” as fertilizer. They call it “Night Soil”.
If you've ever been in the Korean countryside, it really DOES smell like Human Waste.
I'll just take your word for it on that one.
Several years back, my son was awakened around 3:00 A.M. by the sound of a tv, he got up and found his 3 year old son and the family dog sitting in the living room floor watching tv and sharing a bag of Snausages.
My g/son told me that they tasted just fine. I took his word for it too.
LOL.
“The Koreans use human excrement for fertilizer.”
So do we. For over a century.
Milorganite
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milorganite
Sounds like a good place for the out-of-office democrats to move to. Democrats are always full of chit, and now that they can’t sell it to Americans, perhaps the North Koreans can have all of the democrats’ chit.
One big problem, though.
With the chit that the democrats have been “selling” to Americans, everything that’s been touched by their chit has ended up damaged or destroyed. But, since North Korea is already in ruins, I guess it won’t make too much difference.
Don’t they collect in “honey buckets”? I think that’s what my Korean War buddies called it.
The Land of a thousand smells.
Once N. Korea opens up - we will see how they have created a nation of beasts - completely materialist, amoral people whose only skill is watching the political winds, and who will do anything to survive.
A little socialism is a little evil, and a lot of socialism is a lot of evil.
You’re saying N Korea is just like Chicago?
I had a friend who was stationed in Korea in the 50’s . He told me that when they went on march’s some men would fall out and go into the bush to relieve themselves and a little korean would run over with a bucket and grab it.
You have got to be ****ing!
A Korean restaurant?
It does smell, but it’s good.
Graybeard58 - that’s hillarious!!!!!!!!!!!
"What do you call an Ethiopian who's taking a dump?"
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"A braggart...."
I can see it now:
[At the WayneS home, the evening of December 28, 2010]:
WayneS: Wait son! DO NOT flush that toilet! Stop being selfish! Don't you realize there are poor, starving children in North Korea who would LOVE to have the fine, healthy excrement that you are about to simply flush away without a THOUGHT?.
WayneS, Jr.: Gee, dad! I had no idea! I really WAS being selffish, wasn't I? Will you help me organize a nationwide movement [he he] to ship ALL of our otherwise wasted poo to the poor, starving children of North Korea!
WayneS: THERE'S the kind and thoughtful son I know and love! What a GREAT idea! I'll register a web-site and start an e-mail advertising campaign right away!
WayneS, Jr.: Gosh, Dad. I just can't WAIT to get started. Can I have THREE bowls of oatmeal tomorrow at breakfast instead of just two tonight?
WayneS: Sure, son. I know you want to get things moving as quickly as possible!
[fade to black]
then...
[In early February, 2011, www.shipmysh1t.com becomes a reality. By the end of March it has become a "hit". By the summer of 2011 it has literally become a nationwide craze among the youth of America. Tens of thousands of children around the United States begin to carefully retrieve their ordure from the bowl. Instead of just thoughtlessly flushing it away, they lovingly and unselfishly place it in handy, self-sealing envelopes, and send it "overnight" to Pyong Yang.]
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BUT! There are at least TWO Unintended Consequences:
1) Nationwide sales of stainless steel strainers increase drastically and,
2) [from CNN News, December 27, 2011): '...and TOPPING our 2011 List of "Worst Jobs in the World" is, get this folks, Fed-Ex delivery driver in Pyong Yang...'
I was stationed in Korea in the mid sixties. Human excrement was used to fertilize the rice paddies. NOT uncommon to see the girl one was kissy face with the night before knee deep in the stuff working in the rice paddy.
Was on speed control duty one day. Had a Sgt. Major rip by at breakneck speed of 35 mph. The speed limit for USA in S Korea was 25 mph then. My partner and myself chased down the culprit, and pulled him to the side of the road to write him a ticket............ We let him go quickly when we realized we were parked next to a “honey pit”, which is basically just a hole in the ground they store the excrement for the fields.
More stories, but I’ll leave it there. RQSR was MP in S.K. ‘66-’68.
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