Living in North Korea

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You are living in North Korea, or you used to live in North Korea.

Share your experience!

How would you describe life in North Korea?

Has it been complicated to settle down, to find an accommodation and a job?

Is it complicated to make friends in North Korea?

What would you recommend to people who would like to live in North Korea?

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Alexis210 Active member

Member since 26 February 2010

Alexis210Active member12 April 2010 02:46:24

anyone from North Korea?

Guest34 Guest

Guest34Guest29 November 2010 13:38:03

anyone from N.Korea?

LivnAllOver Member

Member since 18 September 2011

LivnAllOverMember03 December 2011 12:57:21

Do you guys even understand North Korea???

lol

bnono32 Contributor

Member since 25 June 2012

bnono32Contributor31 August 2012 07:28:34

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I lived in North Korea for 1 year. Only people working for an NGO, International organizations or embassies can live there. There are only 100 foreigners there, all living and working in the same area, they all know each other... Your organization takes care of everything: housing, driving license if needed, visa...

lenz matambo Member

Member since 18 September 2012

lenz matamboMember18 September 2012 13:20:20

this is when i want to live in north korea

HaileyinHongKong ViP

Member since 28 December 2010

HaileyinHongKongViP22 April 2013 16:13:27

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大咖福利影院 wrote:
You are living in North Korea

I am?聽 Holy shingles.聽 I really need to talk to my travel agent.

Japantovietnam Active member

Member since 30 November 2012

JapantovietnamActive member22 May 2013 05:15:23

bnono32 wrote:
I lived in North Korea for 1 year. Only people working for an NGO, International organizations or embassies can live there. There are only 100 foreigners there, all living and working in the same area, they all know each other... Your organization takes care of everything: housing, driving license if needed, visa...

Just how did you wind up with a gig there? Any stories that you can share or are you saving it all for a book? I don't know if you have but there's the "Inspector O" series of books about a cop in North Korea and it often alludes to foreigners running small businesses in NK. I take it that this is all a fanciful creation of the author?

And Hailey - your little snarky comments on this forum have brightened my day. Thank you.

Sn_nV Member

Member since 17 August 2013

Sn_nVMember27 August 2013 04:37:20

[moderated: off topic + avoid copy/paste on the forum pls.]

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