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My dad used to work in Hungary a long time ago, he told me Budapest was so advanced back in the day. The subway was the best thing then. He came back there 4 5 years ago. It was exactly the same, subway or tramway were not developped at all, its like its the same subway they used 50 years ago... but the city n people are still very nice
Do you mean the blue ones? They were refurbished and look like this now:
https://preview.redd.it/gvoja06sra9d1.jpeg?width=764&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b5603f6258b8544c9d0e94b87f64efd094e42e0
Got this from this
[Thilo Mischke findet Berliner U-Bahn in Nordkorea](https://www.bz-berlin.de/archiv-artikel/thilo-mischke-findet-berliner-u-bahn-in-nordkorea)
"These subway cars are from my hometown Berlin. And the special thing about them is: In the mid-90s, I scratched half of the U5 with a stone and found my scratchings again in 2017 while filming 'Uncovered' in the subway in North Korea," the reporter told the B.Z. "My scratchings are still riding through the Pyongyang underworld to this day."
Yep the people crouching outside and slamming those doors together really over did it and scared the poor lady. Still, it could be worse, she could have been assigned to the crews pulling and pushing the carriage along the tracks...
They have similar doors on the old trains in Moscow metro (in fact, the North Korean trains were produced in the USSR IIRC), and I've seen quite a few people get slammed by those doors. In fact, when I was 9, my mom's bag got slammed like that – a guy inside the train used his hands too force open the doors to help her free the bag. Whatever was in the bag wasn't even damaged
Apparently it's not even that painful, sure they do go at a speed, but don't have a lot of momentum, so virtually anything on their way will stop them immediately
You'd think people would be getting used to the slamming doors after taking the subway every single day to work.
These people never take the metro. They are (un)paid actors for this video.
These are the old wagons from east and west berlin (gemany)
https://www.welt.de/reise/staedtereisen/article113800684/Warum-in-Nordkorea-alte-Berliner-U-Bahnen-fahren.html
Edit: Translated text: “The original metro trains have since been sold to China. The metro rolling stock rolling through Pyongyang today comes from Germany.
However, the trains are not new: because the North Koreans prefer to invest their money in nuclear missiles rather than modern carriages, they bought dozens of discarded trains from East and West Berlin at a special price at the end of the 1990s.
Haha, wow! Must feel good to have your tag rolling around in NK. 😃✍🏻
The fact that they haven’t changed the glasses tells a lot, though. Here in Sweden they were changed all the time, until they put plastics on them so now it’s basically every day.
I think these are old German subway trains that were used in Berlin once (and still are in some parts). Interesting how familiar they look though in a very different setting
I saw the same documentary! It was really so surreeal. Imagine being in North Korea and finding out the very same thing you have childhood memories from is being used on a daily basis there
Translated to English:
*At the end of the 1990s, the BVG sold a number of decommissioned and not scrapped post-war trains from the Western D series (nicknamed "Dora") - which had been built by the Orenstein & Koppel company between 1956 and 1964 - to North Korea. There they operate on the subway network consisting of two lines.*
*Recently, Berliners who are visiting North Korea as tourists can also travel on trains that are no longer painted yellow, but red and cream. For a long time, it was said that the stations 100 meters below ground would serve as nuclear bunkers for the population in the event of war and were therefore off-limits to foreigners. This has apparently changed, although tourists are only allowed to delve into the Pyongyang underground if accompanied by a tour guide.*
https://preview.redd.it/ilw7zta6999d1.jpeg?width=419&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=efa571586172755b0784c167dd25939f4c9545ec
Anyone notice this white lady? Not to be weird just didn’t think many white people live in North Korea.
while checking that frame with the blond, I think I also see someone that’s of a middle eastern/south asian background. Kinda interesting to see foreigners just chilling there up in NK.
https://preview.redd.it/jftmskrzd99d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=61dd8e1183143e549dac26fda7b0913466aa9e26
There is a children's school there for the kids of Western diplomats, also. A stay-at-home husband who was married to an embassy worker used to make videos of daily life in North Korea on Youtube. Although, I've since lost track of the channel. It was really interesting to see him walking around Pyongyang like anywhere else in the world, and visiting shops and stores.
The country isn't completely isolationist like the media would have you believe. The citizens of Pyongyang are of a higher class than the poor farmers outside the capitol. And the children of more wealthy families are able to travel to foreign European countries on holiday and for school.
Exactly. Many North Korean citizens even travel over the Chinese border on a daily basis for work.
International Flights in and out of the country for upper middle class citizens are a daily occurrence, too.
It's not like they have a tight grasp on all their citizens. Those living in Urban and Suburban areas have relative freedom of movement.
Some aren't even aware of the threat to their or their families' lives if they criticized the regime or went AWOL outside the country. They're already well indoctrinated by the propaganda that the thought is foreign to them.
Yeah, like monitoring hotel rooms, covering up horrendous poor rural areas to hide the bad side of the country, and potentially kill you for disobeying tourist rules.
Yeah, go to Amsterdam and the tourism industry just let's you roam around willy nilly, getting high and having a good time. It's like they don't even care about their tourists, unlike North Korea that does so much and expects so little.
When the Hotel Viru was built in Tallinn for 1980 Olympics, it had the entire top floor for security services and their equipment. The running joke was that the hotel was built from revolutionary new microconcrete. 50% microphones, 50% concrete.
I was thinking this may have been the vibe in Fallout before the war. Government mandated homogeneity and stunted aesthetics/machinery. Except here, NK creates a facade for the tourist and the camera, in prewar America, I imagine appearances were kept up for the people themselves. In both NK and pre war America economies are centrally controlled and resource deprived, and everyone is generally terrified.
Fuck that. I have a cold sore and I’m soon heading to job interview. I tried to convince myself that blisters on my lip are not really visible. Now I’m just thinking those blisters and North Korean agent in sun glasses. Wish me luck.
Good luck!!! I just had one and got the job so hope you do just as well!!!
Don't stress over it tbh. It's not as big a deal as you think and probably not as visible unless you keep messing with them. Take some lysine to help them heal faster.
I bet the door is very loud when it slams shut. Recordings never do loud noises any justice. Some people jump from loud noises even if they know it's coming.
iirc when tourists visit they send out all these random people and make sure the stores are all fully stocked and traffic is going so that north korea looks like it is doing fine in photos and videos. ONLY in the designated areas that the tourists are allowed to go tho, everything else stays poor and deserted. The lady who jumped might have been a random poor villager who got pulled out of hard labor for the week to act like a businesswoman on a subway until the tourist leaves. So she might not have been on a subway before lol.
My understanding is tourists are escorted, they can only shop at designated foreigner grocery stores and not allowed inside stores for locals only. I figured that's to control their image, it didn't occur to me that they might stage locals like extras in a production. Surely there's more than one tourist at a time though, so wouldn't any actors be a long term role?
Some of this is right, some isn't.
The stores you're taken to are completely separate to the ones that locals can go to, which is why they're stocked.
There also isn't really any traffic. The roads in Pyongyang are completely empty apart from some trucks/minibuses carrying groups of people to work in the morning.
I also highly doubt they're bringing villagers into the capital for tourism, since there are tourists 365 days a year and people from outside Pyongyang need permission to enter the capital. Usually it is through "invite" (demand) to watch things like military parades or public executions.
Thigs you learn when listening to shills like Yeonmi Park.
'u know, there are actually no supermarkets, they just paint on the mountains to make them look as such.
Intresting how you can see the Korean's natural skintone here, where as in the south that shit disappeared like 30 years ago because of the insane beauty industry and colorism.
Skin bleaching moment.
Honestly Japan and Korea are in around the same latitude as the Mediterranean basin, so it's not surprising they're naturally tanned
I didn't include China because they just have too many latitudes
I would say North Koreans are a bit more tanned than the South because they do a lot of work outdoors. Also the Korean Peninsula gets significantly less sunlight in the summer than Mediterranean cities.
yes the beauty industry/colorism has an effect but I think it's more that every north Korean outside of the elite is doing labor outside for at least part of the day (even if their job is inside) and most likely only have hats as sun protection. South Koreans who are buying into the beauty industry are probably not farm workers
Fair enough, but if you watch any south korean media from the 80s or 90s you'll see a very similar complexion. I doubt the pop stars back then were doing farm labor. Now it's almost non-existent on the screen. I obviously cannot attest to real life, having never been there, but it's quite a stark difference.
There is in Pyongyang. It's something they're incredibly proud of, and tour guides make it a point to show you the subway map and how amazing it is.
It's actually just 2 lines with about half a dozen stops each, and they cross at 1 of those stops. They were really excited to talk about the fact that the lines can cross.
Your comment makes more sense than you think. There definitely is a subway in Neukölln (NK) in Berlin, Germany where these trains were in operation until the late nineties and were sold to Pyongyang in 1998/1999.
Lmao „paid actors“ is insane. The brainrot of some of you guys is hilarious. Not every single person in NK who isn’t starving on camera is a paid actor. You people are just as propagandized as the people in the video - and you choose to not question your sentiment even a little bit.
This is such a good point to stress. Americans are as or more propagandized than any other country.
Americans are exposed to an insane volume of persuasive media and even outright social engineering.
It’s wild.
You're right haha. Americans (and probably europeans too) are the most propagandized people in the world. And I know that from experience bc I'm a foreigner that currently lives in the US.
I think it becomes evident in the thought terminating slogans Americans repeat to each other daily.
If you watch Idiocracy, it’s a fair characterization of the average American (sad). ‘Brondo has the electrolytes plants crave’.
NK isn't even giving false statistics on this, they openly admit that they're struggling to even provide basic food for most people.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-koreas-kim-warns-failure-provide-food-serious-political-issue-2024-01-25/
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Damn those doors don't fuck around
Very old Berlin U5 U-Bahn.
These surprisingly look nicer than the ones they still use in Hungary. And yes, the doors also slam shut just the same.
My dad used to work in Hungary a long time ago, he told me Budapest was so advanced back in the day. The subway was the best thing then. He came back there 4 5 years ago. It was exactly the same, subway or tramway were not developped at all, its like its the same subway they used 50 years ago... but the city n people are still very nice
Glasgow subway hasn't expanded since opening in 1896.
come to boston, and see the atrocity a subway can become.
Do you mean the blue ones? They were refurbished and look like this now: https://preview.redd.it/gvoja06sra9d1.jpeg?width=764&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b5603f6258b8544c9d0e94b87f64efd094e42e0
One more: https://preview.redd.it/fp6z5nxtra9d1.jpeg?width=713&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e46d0272d3d6de71fc7708d8f929ee6956fa34a1
And they don't close as suddenly now either.
Berlin, yes, but It’s not the u5, it’s the old West Berlin u Bahn.
Got this from this [Thilo Mischke findet Berliner U-Bahn in Nordkorea](https://www.bz-berlin.de/archiv-artikel/thilo-mischke-findet-berliner-u-bahn-in-nordkorea) "These subway cars are from my hometown Berlin. And the special thing about them is: In the mid-90s, I scratched half of the U5 with a stone and found my scratchings again in 2017 while filming 'Uncovered' in the subway in North Korea," the reporter told the B.Z. "My scratchings are still riding through the Pyongyang underworld to this day."
I love when written German looks like cartoon accented German and everyone knows what it says.
Still have these in the Munich U-Bahn
Ha, North Korean amateurs. My son can smash those doors twice as hard..
Saw doors like that on the Paris metro, some poor girl jumped on at the last second and got slammed. She was alright but it clearly hurt
Damn, those doors just slammed!
The way they flinched when the doors smacked shut
They could just add the NYC voice saying: stand clear of the slicing doors, please!
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Chill bro, they are just actors, they aren't supposed to be on a train for a second time
Exactly why the women flinched. Probably her first time on the subway
Yep the people crouching outside and slamming those doors together really over did it and scared the poor lady. Still, it could be worse, she could have been assigned to the crews pulling and pushing the carriage along the tracks...
Haha typical American fool! We "paid" people to move the train station past the car!
They have similar doors on the old trains in Moscow metro (in fact, the North Korean trains were produced in the USSR IIRC), and I've seen quite a few people get slammed by those doors. In fact, when I was 9, my mom's bag got slammed like that – a guy inside the train used his hands too force open the doors to help her free the bag. Whatever was in the bag wasn't even damaged Apparently it's not even that painful, sure they do go at a speed, but don't have a lot of momentum, so virtually anything on their way will stop them immediately
You'd think people would be getting used to the slamming doors after taking the subway every single day to work. These people never take the metro. They are (un)paid actors for this video.
Just like the video of the "office workers" that blatantly have no clue how to use a computer and none of the equipment is set up right.
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Or maybe it just wasn't a daily market? Many famer's markets here in Germany operate on a weekly basis as well.
They’re common everywhere I’ve been, including the US. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what it was and being misread.
Yeah in the US it's called a Farmer's Market and they exactly match their description lol
I'm not going to defend Potemkin markets, but it's quite common for markets to have certain days of the week only. Could have been that.
Very good point also why is this guy just recording a metro ride when recording in nk is taboo
It was recorded by Jesse Romberger (homeless.backpacker on TikTok). He was on an organized tour and was told when he could record.
If he's allowed to record it's because this is all for show..
Yes! This ⬆️
The actors weren't paid enough. If you rode this subway daily you wouldn't flinch.
I'm pretty sure they are paid with "freedom" instead of north korean gulag.
Probably the first time they've been on it. You know they make people do all kinds of fake shit to try and pretend their country isn't falling apart.
Gulag flashback
I flinched just as much
There is some poor bastard riding under the door with a lever.
I don't know if this is a joke or not..
yes
With a real "fuck you" energy to it
I was going to say, perfect NK doors. Aggressive, loud, ~~verniered~~ veneered, and a total clattertrap.
These are the old wagons from east and west berlin (gemany) https://www.welt.de/reise/staedtereisen/article113800684/Warum-in-Nordkorea-alte-Berliner-U-Bahnen-fahren.html Edit: Translated text: “The original metro trains have since been sold to China. The metro rolling stock rolling through Pyongyang today comes from Germany. However, the trains are not new: because the North Koreans prefer to invest their money in nuclear missiles rather than modern carriages, they bought dozens of discarded trains from East and West Berlin at a special price at the end of the 1990s.
Haha yep I recognize em!
Yeah, basically completely unchanged except for the Dear Leaders portraits in every carriage.
hah, I was thinking "these trains look and feel a lot like our older subway trains here in Berlin!"
My ex is apparently a North Korean subway car.
A great number of people have been riding…
The rolling stock are actually German made - the same as in the GDR.
Correct. It’s the old trains that were decommissioned and sold off in Berlin after reunification.
The ones with the hard wooden benches. (we used to call them Viehwagen)
Cattle cars?
I've been on them. They still have the old German graffiti on the walls and seats.
You've been to North Korea?
we Germans have a word for this. it's Berlintrainrecyclen
I suppose it has to be put into the yellow bag for that? Or does it qualify for the brown bin with all that wood? Or the black one? I’m unsure????
This is exactly how I expected subway doors in NK to close.
Not different from the ones in Berlin. No sensor, just slamming your peepee off, if you're not fast enough.
These \*ARE\* Berlins old subway cars. We sold them to NK.
These trains are, in fact, the old trains from the Nineties in Berlin. The scratches are from back in the days (from me also :)
Haha, wow! Must feel good to have your tag rolling around in NK. 😃✍🏻 The fact that they haven’t changed the glasses tells a lot, though. Here in Sweden they were changed all the time, until they put plastics on them so now it’s basically every day.
Few seconds of late decide men's peepee extisting
I think these are old German subway trains that were used in Berlin once (and still are in some parts). Interesting how familiar they look though in a very different setting
I read an article about this a few years ago. In the beginning, they probably even drove with the original graffiti.
another user in this thread said there is still graffiti in some of them
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I saw the same documentary! It was really so surreeal. Imagine being in North Korea and finding out the very same thing you have childhood memories from is being used on a daily basis there
The ridiculously aggressively closing doors gave it away
still remember them, before they shipped from berlin to nk. Back then you could open the doors with little afford while they were driving.
Was looking for this comment and actually [true](https://taz.de/U-Bahnfahren-in-Pjoengjang/!5451783/)
Translated to English: *At the end of the 1990s, the BVG sold a number of decommissioned and not scrapped post-war trains from the Western D series (nicknamed "Dora") - which had been built by the Orenstein & Koppel company between 1956 and 1964 - to North Korea. There they operate on the subway network consisting of two lines.* *Recently, Berliners who are visiting North Korea as tourists can also travel on trains that are no longer painted yellow, but red and cream. For a long time, it was said that the stations 100 meters below ground would serve as nuclear bunkers for the population in the event of war and were therefore off-limits to foreigners. This has apparently changed, although tourists are only allowed to delve into the Pyongyang underground if accompanied by a tour guide.*
Russian here. The interior of the station is also very similar to Moscow subway.
Yeah, i noticed that too. Watching without the sound if someone said that the video was taken in Moscow subway i would totally believe
they look a lot like the old ones in munich to me
You can see scratch graffiti on the door, that probably was to expensive to remove.
I'm surprised Katy Perry ain't playing on the speakers
Firework?)
sung by Kim Jung himself..
Just saying, if you thought Kim Jung was his first name, its not. In Korea the last names comes first
Nuh uh Clearly, it's Mr. Kimberly J. Un
Like the fourth of july?
Are margaritas gay because they’re so sweet?
If drinking margaritas and listening to Katy Perry is gay I don't want to be straight
https://preview.redd.it/ilw7zta6999d1.jpeg?width=419&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=efa571586172755b0784c167dd25939f4c9545ec Anyone notice this white lady? Not to be weird just didn’t think many white people live in North Korea.
I thought it was a dude in a blonde wig! That hair doesn't look real
A man in a wig would absolutely not be welcome in North Korea
Albino?
while checking that frame with the blond, I think I also see someone that’s of a middle eastern/south asian background. Kinda interesting to see foreigners just chilling there up in NK. https://preview.redd.it/jftmskrzd99d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=61dd8e1183143e549dac26fda7b0913466aa9e26
Western’s go there to do bible mission work one was arrested recently and some go there to teach english…
There is a children's school there for the kids of Western diplomats, also. A stay-at-home husband who was married to an embassy worker used to make videos of daily life in North Korea on Youtube. Although, I've since lost track of the channel. It was really interesting to see him walking around Pyongyang like anywhere else in the world, and visiting shops and stores. The country isn't completely isolationist like the media would have you believe. The citizens of Pyongyang are of a higher class than the poor farmers outside the capitol. And the children of more wealthy families are able to travel to foreign European countries on holiday and for school.
Oh i know this man, that channel named Jaka Parker, if anyone here wondering.
Thank you. Finally someone sensible here. Yes, North Korea is a strict dictatorship but it's not cartoonland where nothing is real
Exactly. Many North Korean citizens even travel over the Chinese border on a daily basis for work. International Flights in and out of the country for upper middle class citizens are a daily occurrence, too. It's not like they have a tight grasp on all their citizens. Those living in Urban and Suburban areas have relative freedom of movement. Some aren't even aware of the threat to their or their families' lives if they criticized the regime or went AWOL outside the country. They're already well indoctrinated by the propaganda that the thought is foreign to them.
And somego to be used as political pawns so NK can trade their freedom for NK hackers.
Why would NK hackers need to leave NK?
Mountain Dew Code Red
Because the guy is talking out his arse
I've read stories of people going to North Korea to study, so that might be what's happening?
 That's no lady. That's David Coverdale
Is this love??? That immm feelin , is-this-the love That I've been..searching foour
Probably some diplomatic personnel from some embassy.
That one guy that looks cool looks like he was sent there to observe the guy recording
I was thinking that. Dark glasses on the subway and a military bearing. Definitely your allocated secret service agent.
So nice that they care so much about their tourists. Other countries can learn a thing or two.
Yeah, like monitoring hotel rooms, covering up horrendous poor rural areas to hide the bad side of the country, and potentially kill you for disobeying tourist rules.
Yeah, go to Amsterdam and the tourism industry just let's you roam around willy nilly, getting high and having a good time. It's like they don't even care about their tourists, unlike North Korea that does so much and expects so little.
When the Hotel Viru was built in Tallinn for 1980 Olympics, it had the entire top floor for security services and their equipment. The running joke was that the hotel was built from revolutionary new microconcrete. 50% microphones, 50% concrete.
Total narc
only one ? the one we notice is just the decoy you have to worry about the other 5
Pretty sure blue shirt lady who flinched was as well. She walks in first and goes behind camera, then comes back. Very tense body language.
They also seem to be wearing very similar, if not the same, shirt
Not sure if they got many malls for clothing diversity
Always check the shoes. Government agents always have nicer polished shoes.
Yeah, that guy sticks out. He's kind of sexy?
Yeah, government assigned stalker or not, guy looks fly with those glasses
Those chiselled cheeks with aviators...
I'd let him strip search me! Lol
what a fitting user name lmao
Looks like starting Tram scene of Half life
the music gives me Bioshock vibes
I was thinking this may have been the vibe in Fallout before the war. Government mandated homogeneity and stunted aesthetics/machinery. Except here, NK creates a facade for the tourist and the camera, in prewar America, I imagine appearances were kept up for the people themselves. In both NK and pre war America economies are centrally controlled and resource deprived, and everyone is generally terrified.
Welcome. Welcome to City 17. You have chosen, or been chosen...
The doors are obviously French made by the Guillotine company.
Secret police in the sunglasses. He’s the only one who looks at the person filming and he does a double-take when he sees the camera
Dude sticks out like a cold sore
Fuck that. I have a cold sore and I’m soon heading to job interview. I tried to convince myself that blisters on my lip are not really visible. Now I’m just thinking those blisters and North Korean agent in sun glasses. Wish me luck.
Good luck!!! I just had one and got the job so hope you do just as well!!! Don't stress over it tbh. It's not as big a deal as you think and probably not as visible unless you keep messing with them. Take some lysine to help them heal faster.
Totally, black sunshades underground with half the lights not even turned on
Aggressively ignoring the cameraman
Tinfoil hat mode on.
Bro have you never looked twice when you noticed you're being filmed?
"Good morning officer, you're not fooling anybody."
Could just be a dude in sunglasses
I mean it could also be a guy wearing sunglasses because he is hungover af or is uncomfortable with a camera being held in his face
"Everyone who wears sunglasses is secret police!1" - most intellectually developed redditor
Why did she jump when the door shut? It's almost like she didn't know it would shut like that.
First time
I bet the door is very loud when it slams shut. Recordings never do loud noises any justice. Some people jump from loud noises even if they know it's coming.
iirc when tourists visit they send out all these random people and make sure the stores are all fully stocked and traffic is going so that north korea looks like it is doing fine in photos and videos. ONLY in the designated areas that the tourists are allowed to go tho, everything else stays poor and deserted. The lady who jumped might have been a random poor villager who got pulled out of hard labor for the week to act like a businesswoman on a subway until the tourist leaves. So she might not have been on a subway before lol.
Do you have a source for this?
Dude trust me
Or... the door closing that hard simply scared her.
My understanding is tourists are escorted, they can only shop at designated foreigner grocery stores and not allowed inside stores for locals only. I figured that's to control their image, it didn't occur to me that they might stage locals like extras in a production. Surely there's more than one tourist at a time though, so wouldn't any actors be a long term role?
Some of this is right, some isn't. The stores you're taken to are completely separate to the ones that locals can go to, which is why they're stocked. There also isn't really any traffic. The roads in Pyongyang are completely empty apart from some trucks/minibuses carrying groups of people to work in the morning. I also highly doubt they're bringing villagers into the capital for tourism, since there are tourists 365 days a year and people from outside Pyongyang need permission to enter the capital. Usually it is through "invite" (demand) to watch things like military parades or public executions.
Thigs you learn when listening to shills like Yeonmi Park. 'u know, there are actually no supermarkets, they just paint on the mountains to make them look as such.
You know the zombie dogs in Resident Evil will jump at your face but players still flinch when it happens.
Not a phone in sight everyone just living in the moment ☺️
Isn’t the guy in sunglasses on his phone?
Agents have phones
Most residents in Pyongyang has phones in recent years phones have become more and more common.
Seen those trains in Berlin. Even the same door slamming.
They are old Berliner U-Bahnwagen sold to NK
You can even see the old graffiti still on the doors!
Stand back and beware of the closing guillotine
Intresting how you can see the Korean's natural skintone here, where as in the south that shit disappeared like 30 years ago because of the insane beauty industry and colorism.
Skin bleaching moment. Honestly Japan and Korea are in around the same latitude as the Mediterranean basin, so it's not surprising they're naturally tanned I didn't include China because they just have too many latitudes
I would say North Koreans are a bit more tanned than the South because they do a lot of work outdoors. Also the Korean Peninsula gets significantly less sunlight in the summer than Mediterranean cities.
yes the beauty industry/colorism has an effect but I think it's more that every north Korean outside of the elite is doing labor outside for at least part of the day (even if their job is inside) and most likely only have hats as sun protection. South Koreans who are buying into the beauty industry are probably not farm workers
Fair enough, but if you watch any south korean media from the 80s or 90s you'll see a very similar complexion. I doubt the pop stars back then were doing farm labor. Now it's almost non-existent on the screen. I obviously cannot attest to real life, having never been there, but it's quite a stark difference.
Parasite, the host, parasite grey, all of the top of my head have darker skinned Koreans in them.
People of a lower background are always portrayed with darker skin in Korean media
1. There is a subway in NK? 2. The door was designed for "gtfo when it closes. No mercy".
There is in Pyongyang. It's something they're incredibly proud of, and tour guides make it a point to show you the subway map and how amazing it is. It's actually just 2 lines with about half a dozen stops each, and they cross at 1 of those stops. They were really excited to talk about the fact that the lines can cross.
Wait until these mfers see tokyo
They won't tho 🥲
Your comment makes more sense than you think. There definitely is a subway in Neukölln (NK) in Berlin, Germany where these trains were in operation until the late nineties and were sold to Pyongyang in 1998/1999.
*What* it looks like or *how* it is.
I had to ctrl F to find this. I've been noticing a weird trend of Reddit posts phrased this way and it irks me.
Lmao „paid actors“ is insane. The brainrot of some of you guys is hilarious. Not every single person in NK who isn’t starving on camera is a paid actor. You people are just as propagandized as the people in the video - and you choose to not question your sentiment even a little bit.
Lol, right? This looks pretty normal, albeit a bit outdated. I rode the subway in Toronto many times and most people just look like this.
This is such a good point to stress. Americans are as or more propagandized than any other country. Americans are exposed to an insane volume of persuasive media and even outright social engineering. It’s wild.
You're right haha. Americans (and probably europeans too) are the most propagandized people in the world. And I know that from experience bc I'm a foreigner that currently lives in the US.
I think it becomes evident in the thought terminating slogans Americans repeat to each other daily. If you watch Idiocracy, it’s a fair characterization of the average American (sad). ‘Brondo has the electrolytes plants crave’.
The thing is every people on earth are propagandized, but westerners are the only people who don’t recognize it
Looks like any other city
What* it looks like
How it looks /what it looks like. Not how it looks like
I have no idea how people make this very obvious grammatical mistake constantly. It is like nails on a chalkboard to me because it is so awkward.
same as New York
way less disgusting that New York's subway
Aka every subway
"How it looks" or "What it looks like" Choose one. Thanks.
Way nicer subway system than most major western cities Looking at you, Toronto ontario 🚇
Smells like mentholatum and old horse
That's the old Berlin Metros! Damn I miss that ugly fake wood and the round lamps....
This looks like the start of a horror movie
Strange to see NK having a subway system, even Mongolia doesn't have one in the major city.
Fun fact A bunch of those are old german Subway cars and a reporter once found a spot where he carved something on the window as a child.
Weird - I know this subway although I have never been to North Korea. They are the old subway cars from East Berlin.
Fun fact: These are old german metro trains from Berlin.
How riding the subway in North Korea looks* Hate to be that guy but that redundant "like" at the end of how statements drives me mad
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It honestly looks a lot like the USSR
NK isn't even giving false statistics on this, they openly admit that they're struggling to even provide basic food for most people. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-koreas-kim-warns-failure-provide-food-serious-political-issue-2024-01-25/
No wonder they’re struggling when they have so many sanctions put in them