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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)

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Maybe? I dunno There's iirc >100k in China, mostly Jilin province

More concentrated especially if they are mostly in Seoul

Outside of Yanbian maybe yea. There's like 600,000 Korean in Yanbian alone, a huge chunk of which are North Korean.

Re: Dinner at a North Korean Restaurant in Shanghai (2016)

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More concentrated especially if they are mostly in Seoul

Outside of Yanbian maybe yea. There's like 600,000 Korean in Yanbian alone, a huge chunk of which are North Korean.

There are other reasons to avoid like https://x.com/Sino_Market/status/1810508441234067465 / https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3269808/chi...

Re: Dinner at a North Korean Restaurant in Shanghai (2016)

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> We found out that the girls are all from elite North Korean families. The one that served us shared politely that she has worked at this restaurant for one and the half years and all of them are University graduates who consider this their duty and only opportunity to work and serve their country by sharing their culture and food. I imagine it is worse for the people who aren't children of elite families, nor able…

Unfortunately, this is an extremely common way of thinking. It's one of the reasons flinging dirt in politics is so effective I think. I wonder if there is any connection with this way of thinking and the many David vs Goliath style stories we get as a kid. Maybe we need more stories for children where every character is bad, or every character is good. There can still be conflict to provide an interesting story betw…

I've conceptualized this in the following way: be most skeptical of narratives that are strongly aligned with the mainstream narrative (more room for ignorance or malice; see Harvey Weinstein), and then most skeptical of narratives that are strongly contrary to the mainstream narrative. Binary categories of good and bad, us and them, right and wrong are an easy trap. To counter this, seek out many narratives (which are not made equal) and consolidate. To truly understand a perspective is the most we can expect out of someone, as they may not agree.

Re: Dinner at a North Korean Restaurant in Shanghai (2016)

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post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Outside of Yanbian maybe yea. There's like 600,000 Korean in Yanbian alone, a huge chunk of which are North Korean.

There are other reasons to avoid like https://x.com/Sino_Market/status/1810508441234067465 / https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3269808/chi...

Oh yea for sure, you get way better food safety in SK.
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