North Korean Department store

[communistjesus]

Leave North Korea !!! ALONE !!! so what if HISTORY PASSED THEM BYE.. LEAVE NORTH KOREA ALONE

[Threetails]

So it's basically an exhibition of what a department store in DPRK would look like if they actually had real department stores?

[paul4opus]

I wonder how offen the clerks have to dust off the merchandise? Since the number of customers is like one every other week...

[aznjokernerd]

i would go shopping there but the color look so pastal and nudy >.< and gosh look like those item have never been remove for many year D: NK kill your leader and swim to SK

[bozo148]

This country is like in a time warp 50 years ago

[BooGooNFlowoo4Evoo]

It would be alot nicer if one could buy it knowing that the people who made these things had enough to eat and weren't being beaten.

[GradyWhite2007]

I love that song!

[RonSafreed]

Dollar Store quality at Lord&Taylor Prices-can't pull the wool over our eyes North Korea

[RonSafreed]

Ohh North Korean bath&beauty products, ohh how cute!!! "Eat your heart out Walmart"!!!!

[DJTITLOVER]

Damn its like wallmart LOL

[wishfulanthony]

@88seanster yes, and it seems like modernity has yet to touch the Hermit Kingdom indeed. Additional observation: compare the furniture you see on this video versus what you see at Ikea... Those in N Korea have good furniture pieces, but for how much? And why is no one buying them?

[BooGooNFlowoo4Evoo]

@wishfulanthony Nobody likes N. Korea, that's why.

[Oseltamivirum]

Greetings from Poland :)

Kolory tych produktów oraz ich wzornictwo przywodzą mi na myśl czasy Edwarda Gierka, czyli Polskę lat 70-tych.

Te ręczniki, flakoniki,

Rowerki, duperelki,

Mydełka, mazidełka,

Mebelki z paździerza,

Bluzeczki bez kołnierza.

Wszystko to w tandetnych kolorach, a oprawa muzyczna rodem z Telewizyjnego Koncertu Życzeń :)

P.S. W dziale "sport", są rakiety do tenisa ziemnego ale nie widzę rakietek (lub jak niektórzy mówią "paletek") do ping ponga ...?

[JRBendixen]

It looks like they never sell anything.

[BooGooNFlowoo4Evoo]

@JRBendixen I was thinking the same thing. It's just a display piece for outsiders. Only the most privileged would get to sample these goods.

[88seanster]

anyone else notice that everything is pastel shades? is N.Korea going gay? or perhaps they never left 1980....

[valeatukka]

Don't you just love the plastic bows with fake diamonds? Oh it makes me wanna have one so badly.

[wooite]

must have been black friday, just look at that mob

[videomanyak1]

A store looks not bad

[SuperKukumicin]

who the $uck in this world makes a 10 minutes video about ... a store?! crazy NK.

[cds12271]

@SuperKukumicin ...they are insane. This is all fake. They breed giant rabbits.

[David27Edwards]

just a bunch of crappy shit in a crappy store in a crappy country..where are the fake nike shoes and watches in this video

[nedmobile]

INDOOR BOOT FAIR

[kakashisensei9258]

What's up with the cutesy music. I started dancing at 6:48 then I couldn't stop laughing. Everything is just so neatly lined up. LOL It's just a typical day in the heart of NK. Korean propaganda is hilarious...

[SuperGetitgotitgood]

looks like the stalls of knock off crap at the swap meet

[thegreatsuehenderson]

You only see what YOUR government wants you to see, you bloody fools.

[UsGrantify]

reason why everything's still on the shelfs is cause nobody over there can afford it. lol

[BaronZombie]

Haha everything looks like it's from the dollar store.

[EquipaPatriot]

After seeing essentially the same shit over and over I decided to move onto another depressing North Korean video, to remind myself that the U.S.A. isn't as bad... YET.

[alugergannaoj]

Typical propaganda, how many "average" Koreans can buy it?

[alugergannaoj]

They like pink...



[froppo]

Is this a thrift store?

[Tihbialdunav]

Which of these goods are made in the concentration camps? Google Yodok.

[Bruno47602]

Very Good!

[zcheeseolly]

We only see what the North Korean government wants us to see.

This store, if it's even real, is obviously only for the richest citizens.

[pansitkantonify]

@zcheeseolly Or possibly this doesn't even function when there aren't foreign observers and media around

[GateKeeperXL]

Where are the shoppers?

[Psycocat93]

Not bad at all if noticed that they only have own facilities not imported products. Of course still there is finest wiews.

[oscarmu25]

alot of creams...

[TheEternity425]

song name?

[jxhensley]

@TheEternity425 "Attain the Cutting Edge (The CNC Song)"

[TheEternity425]

4:38 Why is there christmas lights on the water bottles?

[langox510x]

Definitely where the rich go to shop. Damn your country sucks...

[geoffdundee]

i feel so hungry - wonder what flavour the plastic wellington boots are? - they look delicious..oh no wait - shit "theyre just for show"?..what!!!!!!!..seriously though - sad as fuck..north koreans need to revolt and have an uprising...NO leader or their sons or heirs are (east or west,north or south on this planet)....they are all pieces of self elected shit that need shown that thats all they are by being put 6ft under..how can someone be a great leader and let your subjects starve?

[1stultimategamer]

she looks a lot like the one who preents north korean news

[GerardTVofficial]

6:49... No consumers i guess?

[tcp000]

딱 남한 70년대

[RemzRazor12]

Fuck off !!! Who gonna buy it,Kim Jong Il or some coward have a lot of money??

[ManekiNekoGeek]

wait... are you sure this isn't just some cheap chinese boutique? looks pretty much the same to me, lol.

[AppleSouffle1]

It's like going back in time to the early 1970s.

How do they manage to resist the high tech progress that people in the modern world enjoy?

I bet the back row sports a wide array of disco albums on vinyl, 8 Track Tape and cassette. You can find VHS tapes of Saturday Night Fever and Grease. Translated into Korean then back into English, these titles read - Saturday Evening In The Capitalist West Makes Me ILL and Heterosexual Lube Job. They also sell the soundtracks!

[ScottishCaledonian]

@AppleSouffle1 Pakistans probably worse

[HesseJamez]

Do they sell great leader glasses?

[cds12271]

@HesseJamez ....No, tyou can have your eyes cut out for copying great leader..

[stuham82]

Is this John Lewis?

[snotscott69]

I like the funky christmas music

[oldstock1607]

Just think--if not for being the most doctrinaire communist nation still in existence, N. Korea would be rich as fuck from selling all their cheaply-made goods to Wal-Mart.

[oldstock1607]

where's all the Herro Kitty shit?

[FallingSky7]

The cashier must be bored

[cadaverock]

this looks more like 'PANCHO'S GIVE AWAY.

[dunecigar]

The most important employee there is the dude who dusts. Look at that stuff, all perfectly placed, such propaganda bullshit.

[scooter13071]

coming soon Wal Mart

[m8s4lif]

Where are the customers? What a joke.

[z33kjordan]

I think the saddest thing about this video is this store looks completely dumb and tacky to anybody in the west but to a North Korean its probably like Barney's.

[revray66]

@TheEternity425 Yeah, really. Twit.

Do you see any customers? Is one thing in there out of place by even one millimeter? All lookee no touchee propaganda display bullshit.

[KatzMeowz]

They sure seem proud of their bottles of stuff. Oh, my...@4:16 they showcase a pump bottle!  Nice slow 15 second pan down its length!

[cryptosquid]

All clothes are Size 0

[TheEternity425]

1:09 nice socks

[revray66]

As if anyone buys into their propaganda...

Anyone dares to touch anything in the displays and it's off to shopper re-education camp or just get shot out back by the dumpster.

[TheEternity425]

@revray66 really? -____-

[Vidda90]

Everything is free right "comrade"?

[iwantsweetpotato]

hahahahaha the music is intended for shoppers lol :))

[SuperDelta000]

this music makes people crazy

[48some]

Communistic art design... gives me the shivers..

[loxstuk]

Fuck me.... BnQ cupboards in North Korea ... who knew....

[Ferreal92]

One thing we have in common; All their crap is made in China too.

[MegaMarlboro666]

They even have LCD TV's??? wow

[MegaMarlboro666]

All that not look so bad

[alexlemke]

2 "dear leaders" down....1 to go.

[tertommy]

war-malt

[wassock55]

looks like the pound shop

[FilRuss101]

I thought Private stores are illegal in North Korea

[LoveGeekChic]

7:07 Hello Kitty candy!

[assiremat]

where's the dear leader's aisle?!

[jpete3027666]

Goodwill stores look better than this.

[rochelle1088]

One reason for perfect symetrical stocking, is so that the store worker can identify if anything is gone immediately. Just like their "hamburger fast food" restaurants. The pictures show perfectly symetrical hamburgers, just too uniform to actually be used to any extent.

[rochelle1088]

I have to believe that this is a show store, for tourists but also for elite N Koreans to see the country's products.

[lawtinker]

If this was an exhibition was there anything to actualy purchase and by whom? There doesnt seem to be much demand, even the racks areent packed. Or was THIS the store for the whole country

[haitk18]

Koreans are very patriotic

[123oakstreet]

I dig the tunes.

[hebneh]

The dense crowds of customers that are thronging this high-end store make it clear that North Korea is a paradise of fine foods and excellent-quality consumer goods which are available to all citizens!

(Not.)

[mangarda]

This department store is missing one thing....shoppers. In most of the photos it appears there isn't a single person in the store. All the shelves are completely and fully stocked and untouched, which indicates that no one has bought anything. Very, very strange.

[pajmf]

The merchandise perfectly matches the circa-1970s synthesizer used for the background music.

[frogvillage]

Somewhat I would believe the quality is better than Chinese.

[chimp175]

to be fair its not as bad as Aldi

[skrvv]

@chimp175

I lolled

[predsedatel2000]

@chimp175 its kommunist store! only for kommmmmmunist!!!

[adiksadiatabs]

@chimp175 you talkin about the one in IL?

[chimp175]

do they do online ordering??

[Akinyamok]

no price tag! lol

[gibenrath]

very sad video

[alex74480]

romanianuser don't call these people robots. It is not their fault that they live 60 years now in complete isolation. Yes, they are brainwashed but referring to them as "brainwashed robots" is just disrespectful. I wanna see you and your peebs after the same amount of time of isolated bullshit...

[lhagiduty]

very brainwashy if i keep watchin these north korean videos imma make love to kim jong il

[RACofficial]

@lhagiduty But he's dead.

[bee5120]

Although everything looks nice and beautiful, it also looks sterile and devoid of life despite the pretty colours.

[Phunker1]

all stocked up and no customers. right.

[RomanianUser]

why are they using such happy music for this? north korea is a sad fucking country consisting only of brainwashed robots..

[nightfrog65]

This is like showing a video from retailers on Rodeo Drive (Beverly Hills, CA) and indicating that a typical American spends $8000 on a necklace, $200 on a Men's dress shirt, and $100 for a bottle of Cologne/perfume.

Most NK residents can't afford these goods.

[ananzi1975]

@nightfrog65 North Koreans are not allowed to visit this place. It is a propaganda show piece and nothing inside is for sale. if you attempt to buy something they will look all confused, and they clearly don't know what you want.

[DrMarcusKane]

I had to love the music accompanying this video, it has BBC2 Test Card c. 1974 stamped all over it!

[hddpgcse]

Why are they showcasing this as amazing stuff? It's shit we'd find at our bargain basement stores!

[VoorkJTV]

@hddpgcse because the average north korean makes 900 bucks a year and are poor as shit

[johnhildebrizzle]

Engrish prease!!

[MerryJoy123]

EVERYTHING LOOKS SO PERFECT AND UNTOUCHED! WEIRD!

[inuboy22]

to bad no one can buy shit there

[L3giTxSniPE]

A giant facade is all that this is...

Propaganda at it's worst

[am1966ath]

This is a showcase store for foreign eyes..like their stupid shows with happy children singing...

[51jclar]

Coming soon to local your town corner. Looks like super clean Walmart... Can't wait the music wants me to buy like Black Friday... Heres to your great leader .. Mow Fat Now..Kim dumb sum... WOW!.

[willliam1978]

lol i love thos tunes so cheesy

[RAYBABJ]

Hello Norh Koreans. This what the rest of the world looks like .. including South Korea. Thanks for visiting "The Great Leader's" museum.. and for not touching anything. Oh wait, you can't see this ... cause you aren't allowed to have the internet.

[FlatulousMaximus]

Why do the women dress in old-timie night gowns??

[MorroccoSurrogate]

@FlatulousMaximus They're wearing chima jeogori, the traditional dress of Korea.

[BigMrSox]

This is great propaganda...

Too bad the average N.Korean can't afford to feed themselves.

[Amills11]

This is sickening propaganda. The easiest way to tell you are subjugated to a totalitarian government is that they will ki ll you or put you in prison if you try to flee the country. How anyone can be deceived to want to be controlled by the government is beyond me.

[robins1818]

완전 못사는 티가 팍팍나네..

[19thSFGA]

Do they have "Great Leaders Original Ball Bag Balm" !

[ifrit1780]

All the music for their commercials are so similar... sometimes the same.

[louisengu]

Omigosh... someone bring them to Doota

[cbohar84]

Why is the music Mexican O.o?

[mcvdigital]

@cbohar84 If you think this is Mexican music then you're a fucking retard.

[cbohar84]

@mcvdigital This videos retarded, and so are you

[HerrKanzler69]

Der Kasten bei 9:33 ist sehr eindrucksvoll.

[hardstylerDE]

the music causes ear cancer i guess^^

[hardstylerDE]

@hardstylerDE Anyone an Idea where i can buy the Kim Il Sung Body Lotion with water from the secret camp from mount paekdu?

[SackFulloApplez1993]

In the end of the day of roughing it out through these hard economic times I like to lay back, and watch people that are worse off than me.

[19thSFGA]

@SackFulloApplez1993 Ah yes my good man the Bloody Wogs!

[aquamizu1]

@2:16 oh no the soap boxes aren't perfectly aligned...is someone gonna get shot for that?! XD

[DeHustlendeMoruk]

@aquamizu1 not really

[ANGELINGRATE]

Too bad, only a few north koreans could afford those shits

[janakag]

The first thing that goes out with Communism is a sense of fashion and style

[ErectMonstrosity]

HOLY SHIT THEY HAVE SHOES, DAMNN

[call911forpolice]

north korea needs revolution!

[interceptor4revealed]

THEY HAVE PINEAPPLE SOAP !!!! OMG ! HOW ? WHEN ? WHY ? HOW ... HOW .. HOW CAN I GET IT ??? PLZZZZ HELP

[danning1]

I can see Wal-Mart and Target trembling now.

[kelvinjiro]

In North Korea, this is for look not for buying 

[fuhrman66]

You could fit this stuff in the garage of an Average American Where's the goods?

[maggiephuang]

great DPRK market, i wish i can go there~~~

[jeripolmolina]

what the fuck. that's all i can say..

[Chriz7164]

Looks like a very boring Wallmart to me

[SeattleRexx]

Cheap Chinese crap that's NOT for sale to anyone...Propaganda film for the "Evil West".. They would crap their pants if they walked into the most barren WalMart in the US!!,

[Dusty696969]

This is a whole set up. Its to perfect. You probably cant touch anything.

[bugga6130]

this is not north korea ... this is south korea

[brettsworld99]

@bugga6130 evidence?

[erwar87]

In reality, all bottles are filled with pee of the great leader

[thelaughingman79]

@erwar87 that would be a honor for only inner party members....the common people get the pee from somone who once met the dear leader.

[smileson2go]

ok lets get real here .. Do you actually believe that the rest of the world are a bunch of moron ....ok let just say you are a rich country! why are your people starving. Finishing on a brighter side to the few overweight North Korean enjoy it while it last... next life you will be starving ..amen

[marietta85]

The North Koreans love a pastel color palette.

[godhatesusall85]

Ahahahahaha nice TV sets you got there. I remember the 80s!

[sseongrish]

LOOK AT THAT TV!! I feel like time traveling. Are you kidding? How can you say 'development'?

[robloxpwnmaster3]

south koreans are the real terroists

[drmetro1981]

@robloxpwnmaster3 FUck you bitch

[Maasdam1993]

the music the music watching those video's from NK is funny only fore the music.

[jadeyes914]

i cringe at all the ugly stuff they sell there.

[brettsworld99]

@jadeyes914 thats called "another culture"

[jadeyes914]

@brettsworld99 i've been to a couple of other asian countries, one country was especially poor, and their "culture" wasn't as ugly. they had some nice looking stuff. NK just has no fashion sense.

[fms160]

sounds like f*cking Pokemon tunes

[SuperSoftware1234]

Kim-Mart!!! XD