Dinner at a North Korean Restaurant in Shanghai (2016)
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Dinner at a North Korean Restaurant in Shanghai (2016)
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Re: Dinner at a North Korean Restaurant in Shanghai (2016)
#2Not sure how comfortable id be ordering from one of these resturaunts as an American.
Re: Dinner at a North Korean Restaurant in Shanghai (2016)
#3The article is from 2016. Did anyone find out if the restaurant is still open?
Re: Dinner at a North Korean Restaurant in Shanghai (2016)
#4The article is from 2016, it's aeons ago, given the pace of Shanghai. I wonder, if this place still operates in 2025.
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#5- "We heard that the girls stay in the Hotel (yes, upstairs) and they are seldom allowed out and that they do not get paid or if they do, the amount is for pocket money as everything from food and lodging to basic necessities are provided by the State."
In more straightforward language: these are slaves.
[late edit]: Here's more about how these slave women are treated:
- "In contrast, he said the high achievers are rewarded with a trip to a North Korean restaurant, where they can pick one of the waitresses to spend the evening with. The top employee of the month gets to choose first. He likened it to a hostess bar - and accused managers of "preying on young men's sexual urges, to get them to compete and bring in more money"."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68226271 ("North Koreans working in China 'exploited like slaves" (2024))
Re: Dinner at a North Korean Restaurant in Shanghai (2016)
#6Not sure how comfortable id be ordering from one of these resturaunts as an American.
Why are you special in this regard?
Re: Dinner at a North Korean Restaurant in Shanghai (2016)
#7The article is from 2016, it's aeons ago, given the pace of Shanghai. I wonder, if this place still operates in 2025.
Seems that way. A review from ten months ago mentions the restaurant. https://maps.app.goo.gl/qa5KY49pHBRqLLTa9
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#8Until 2020 the you could book a stay in a backpacker hostel in Berlin that was actually located inside the North Korean embassy.
Eventually the German government got fed up with them running a business out of their embassy and they had to shut it down.
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#9I have to admit, I’d be curious to visit one of these restaurants myself. However, one has to be aware of the fact that these restaurants are reportedly linked to the secretive North Korean party organization, Room 39 [1], which means that all revenue flows directly into the hands of the Kim dynasty, so in the best case you'll help financing their next BMW or much worse, the nuclear arms program—neither of these I'm very comfortable with…
Re: Dinner at a North Korean Restaurant in Shanghai (2016)
#10The article is from 2016. Did anyone find out if the restaurant is still open?
Yes, it’s still open.
10am to 9:30pm every day.