Ask a North Korean: What’s the restaurant scene like in the DPRK?

Ask A North Korean

Ask a North Korean: What’s the restaurant scene like in the DPRK?

Few outside the capital can afford to eat out, while the most popular eateries are run out of people’s homes

Joshua Kim December 23, 2022

Ask a North Korean: What’s the restaurant scene like in the DPRK?

A North Korean cook puts a pizza in an oven at an Italian restaurant in Pyongyang on May 22, 2009 | Image: Eric Lafforgue

“Ask a North Korean” is an NK News series featuring interviews with and columns by North Korean defectors, most of whom left the DPRK within the last few years.

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Joshua Kim

Joshua is a pseudonym for a North Korean defector writer. He was born and raised in North Korea and lived there until he defected in 2019. He now resides in South Korea.

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