TIL Jangmadang (장마당) are informal local markets in North Korea, crucial for survival since the 1990s famine, evolving from barter to thriving economic hubs for food, goods, and information, challenging state control and fostering an entrepreneurial spirit of young families but faced oppression
https://libertyinnorthkorea.org/learn-a-changing-north-korea
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