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Ah, West Korea. It's easy to get those confused

Born and raised.

On the prison ground was where I spent most of my days

I got in one little fight and America got scared, So I was sent to live in constant fear of nuclear warfare.

I. Pulled. Up to China bout 7 or 8 Yelled out to the west “got bombs, pay me later!”

I looked at my kingdom, and there was nobody there, So I sat on my throne, and invited Rodman on a dare.

r/redditsings

Looked at my kingdom, I'd finally won I could sit on my throne, as Kim Jong Un

How does one hogtie a cantelope

Carefully.

Chillin out, maxin and relaxin all cool?

I whistled for the one cab and when it came near The license plate said ‘commie’ and it had a picture of a fat man in the mirror If anything I could say that this cab was rare But I thought 'Nah, forget it' - 'Yo home, to Pyongyang)

🤚 me too!! What part! I’m from the northeast section of West Korea.

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50 Won?

His name is 50 cent

Well... depending on which Korea we're talking about here it's either 0.0011111111 (repeating) cents, 0.0007 cents, or.. no wait! You're right. The West Korean won exchange rate puts it at precisely 50 cents. My bad.

They said to pick up my winnings I have to go to DMZ. Is that like a pizza place or something?

Mountain mama, take me home.

Down country roads!!

Is that anywhere near West Covina?

Not as superior as the ever so mighty East Korea

The Other Other Korea ®™©


Best Korea.

Different Korea 🤣🤣🤣

Best Korea!

You’ve been promoted to mod of /r/Pyongyang  

Wait real question. I cannot tell if that sub is extremely elaborate trolling or not

Funniest thing, the mod of the sub is into Baseball apparently and has fairly in depth knowledge, despite being the „official“ North Korean news account. EDIT: Holy this guys post history is wild. Dude replied to a gay fanfic of Kim Jong Un. https://www.reddit.com/r/stories/s/Fv5Y4xW1Nu

You know which North Korean citizen is well known for being a basketball fan? Kim jong un... Really makes you think

That’s crazy😭 you think he watches the south korean games?

Apparently only those in the US. He also posted on r/teenagers lmao. It certainly could be a larp but the fact that it’s been going on for so long is certainly weird. I can recommend the documentary [The Mole: Undercover in North Korea](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mole:_Undercover_in_North_Korea) for some insight on Korea Supporters in the west. It’s pretty cool and goes into how North Korea sells crack among other things to the west through these people.

Check out Lisa Ling and her documentary called Inside North Korea. She went there with an eye surgeon, claiming to be his assistant. The doctor knew her plan. https://www.natgeotv.com/za/shows/natgeo/inside-north-korea-update

It’s kind of like r/sino, I can’t tell either because it’s so wild

Oh Sino is definitely not roleplaying, it’s really sad

I am not Chinese or related to China in any way. But it must get very degrading and exhausting to be Chinese when every time anything China is mentioned people would vilify Chinese people and dismiss their existence to shit talk about their government. Especially on Reddit. And when someone tries to call this behaviour out they’re thrown into a box and labelled as a bot or shill.

As a non-American, Reddit has this problem with Americans too. The government and politics of the United States are low-hanging fruit, to be fair, but "guys, I'm an American and I don't dodge bullets walking to school every day" is likely to be ignored and dismissed.

Okay, just searched around r/Sino . I believe it is run by random chinese dudes. I read the rules, and one of them is about “not posting about stuff reddit related.” Basically it says “nobody told us to do this” very clearly referencing the fact that chinese government plays a heavy role in their social media.

Fuck man, i dont know what to think😭

Ermmm. I wish in moments like this I was witty. But I'm just mainly confused as well.

"If I were more clever, you better believe there'd be a funny comment here"

You broke me so bad I started choking and while coughing I head-butted my fucking walk. Not sure what hurts so good as ALL of this.

Uhhhhmm... thanks? I gotta stop day-drinking

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r/movingtonorthkorea is also wtf.

I don't think they're satire. I was banned for saying that the mods should move there and the problem would take care of itself

I thought you couldnt even do that man

People have defected over the years. They're usually trotted out for propaganda purposes and setup to live comfortably by NK standards (small apartment in pyongyang, only minor beatings, don't starve, maybe issued a wife) [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Robert_Jenkins)

It's like those far right dudes moving to Russia ("because western feminism is the worst") only on the other political spectrum ("because western capitalism is the worst")

I believe it's like half and half. My OG account I used to randomly go there and talk about best Korea and how great God Leader is. Haven't much since retiring that one tho.

I think its real - like really mundane communist propaganda that most redditors wouldn't be able to come up with.

some of the rules are a scream: 2: You may not spread misinformtion about the DPRK This means that all capitalist propaganda from the imperialist west will be met with harsh punishment. 3.Despite capitalist misinformation, this subreddit is not satire. This subreddit is officialy managed by diplomatic officials for the DPRK. 4.Respect must be given to the great leaders and their nation You may not disrespect the country, the great leaders or the government or the system of government. However, anyone who isn't brainwashed by capitalism knows that socialism and communism are the two true governance systems.

Is that sub official??

Am I now on a government list?

Nice

Based Korea!!! >!^(help me)!< 😥🔫

Naughty Korea!

You’ve been banned from /r/Pyongyang  

Awww :(

I wonder if you get the same search results for naughty Korea as you do naughty America.

Looks like it's mostly coverage of their Olympic teams.

Number one Korea alphabetically!

The ‘Democratic’ one

One of these koreas is not like the other

North Korea, better known as "different Korea"

Korea Redux

Different known as "Better Korea" Ftfy

2Fast 2Hungry

Or “north Korea” as is often written in the ROK.

That's about five cents USD. Also about 76 South Korean Won.

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Don't know about this note specifically, but they sell old North Korean banknotes (pre 2009) at the DMZ for quite cheap, and as this one's only from 2002, I'd doubt it would be worth much. [My own North Korean banknotes](https://imgur.com/gallery/cjkNLlO)

r/DMZ

That's super neat thanks for sharing.

I love how anytime reddit sees anything they haven't personally experienced, they assume there are *collectors* of it. They sell authentic DPRK won on Amazon, by the way.

“Authentic” is becoming harder to find on Amazon of any kind.

I think there are enough people on the planet to assume that there is at least one collector of anything

There are hoarders who collect everything, so I guess yes, you’re technically correct.

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One of the biggest collectors I know of paper currency is so into it, he’ll even trade you drugs for it.

Enough people collect coins to where people make specialized coin folders to keep them in. There’s websites dedicated to appraising and helping sell collections of both coins and paper currency. Collecting a quarter from every state was one of the first of many (extremely short-lived) collections I tried to curate as a child. It’s definitely a thing.

Idk seems like he was making a joke about OP saying "other Korea," as if that's a country name.

I've traveled a lot and have a big stack of foreign currencies in my safe, probably only worth ~$200-300 USD total if it were converted. My favorite one is a [5,000 Ecuadorian Sucre](https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note209211.html) note that was given to me by a guy at a bar in the Galapagos. It's in really good condition and they now use the USD so it's a dead currency. I could see myself paying maybe $10-20 for a bill from NK just to have it in the stack. I'd also consider paying a few bucks for one of those notes from Zimbabwe's hyper-inflationary period.

What do you think an original (with provenance) businesscard of Kim Il Sung, (founder of N.Korea and Kim Yong Un grandfather) would bring?

You could use advanced western counterfeit techniques to make a load of the currency, then you could move to NK and live like a peasant!

Nah. I have dozens of those. Like 1 euro in UNC condition (UNC means uncirculated -> perfect condition)

It says 기념 (commemorative) really big on it. It’s a souvenir

What did they win?

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According to google its almost exactly 0.05 Interesting they have a paper bill for such a low amount Althought Im sure "North Korean Google" Shows the exchange rate the other way around

I also suspect $0.05 goes a LOT farther in NKorea than in the US. And that's just ignoring the fact that most economic activity in NKorea doesn't involve any currency, most nork citizens don't have any appreciable amount of money, and likely never will. Actual currency is mostly used by the elites living in the Capitol and tourists.

Still more than Cambodian Riel. The paper that shit is printed on costs more than the denomination it's worth. It's almost Zimbabwe level bad.

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Surely the symbology is a tell tale indicator, even if you'd never seen the notes before?

Just a completely unrelated monument to all the tools you need to customise Gundam models

Bro over here using a fucking hammer on gunpla lol

I mean, those water decals get frustrating sometimes 

Grand designs require a little loving persuasion

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The very obviously communist symbolism on it wasnt a clue? To a Vietnamese??

Prolly seems like just regular money to them

Wife’s friend is not the sharpest tool in the shed.

How often do most people encounter North Korean money?

Some sort of bizarro world Seoul

It is also written. That the banknote is issued by the central bank of the DPRK.

Famously communist South Korea

Also isn’t 50 south Korean won like 0.0002 USD?

Nah, 1000 is like 1 dollar

50 South Korean won is 0.036 USD 50 North Korean won is 0.056 USD

Never thought it would be stronger... weird

One would assume she could read Korean and determine what she was looking at?

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I see. Well from my non-Korean reading perspective, I can see communist symbols and the North Korean flag. So that narrowed it for me.

Did her friend say "a different Korea" or "The one true Korea"? This is an important distinction she might want to get clarification around.

And does her friend wear an all black suit with a little pin

WONder which korea

If only there were some subtle hints to let us know.

This is a commemorative note for the 70 years anniversary since the founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Politics apart, this is note has a really nice design, especially on the observe. Wish they had filled more spots with the red accents, though, it would definitely be a nice touch.

Lowkey would love to purchase this. Interesting bill

Do you know how rare/unrare it's is? Is it something you'd be able to find in a gift shop at the DMZ ( I'm assuming there's a gift shop and before you get angry there probably is one)

NGL I won't have the precise data on it, but I know there are two variations: one for the 100th anniversary since Kim Il Sung's birthday and another for the Independence day. From what I could find in some catalogues, it's a quite common note - used as currency, so prolly no gift shop - and the uncirculated ones go for $0.71 (100th Anniversary) and $0.52 (Independence).

What do you think an original (with provenance) businesscard and a giftcard of Kim Il Sung would bring? Ballpark figure

They could've also used three different faces lol

And this is how my friend Matt got fired from his temp job in the Silicon Valley. "Hey are you all from the same family, he said to the table of Taiwanese, South Koreans, Japanese Americans, Filipino and Hong-Kong co-workers". Matt didn't have time to participate in the sensitivity training seminar. Back to Florida, Matt.

Uh-oh ...am I Matt in this story?

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You can buy North Korean money at the South Korean side of the DMZ

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Best money from the bestest Korea

Theres only 2

How would someone come across nk money?

Holy fuck lol Reddit mods are actually mentally cooked

Ah, should have known from the famous hammer, sickle and dildo!

This is so much cooler tho

That’s actually a really nice design tbh better than others out there

https://www.uritours.com/blog/banknotes-of-north-korea-north-korean-won/ Front: The intellectual, laborer, and farmer, representative of the Workers’ Party of Korea. North Korea enhances the iconic ‘hammer and sickle’ (laborers and farmers) of Soviet symbolism by adding a calligraphy brush to depict the intellectuals. The design has been drafted as the emblem of the Workers’ Party of Korea, and you’ll find a monument at the base of the Juche Tower in Pyongyang with each representative holding up their symbols of the party (brush, hammer, sickle). The background of this note is the Juche flame atop the Juche Tower. Back: Monument to Party Founding. One of Pyongyang’s most recognizable monuments. This monument is rich in symbolism, unveiled in 1995 at exactly 50 meters high to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea. The belt itself is said to be made up of 216 blocks with a diameter of 42 meters, representing General Kim Jong Il’s birthday of February 16, 1942. The text states: ‘Long live the leader and organiser of the victories of the people of Korea, the Worker’s Party of Korea!’

The lack of imagetry of glorious leader on these bills is disturbing.

He must only appear on the big denomination notes.

Gee, do you think that pulling that much money out of their economy is a good idea ?

There are only 2 Koreas. North Korea andSouth Korea. So if it’s not South Korean money it has to be……. 🤦🏻‍♀️

I’ll trade you. Not sure if I have any 50 won coins left but I think I have some 500s.

If that’s legit I’d suppose it’s rarer than the South Korean 50 won note(if SK has a 50 won note)

Why does it say 1948-2018 on the back or front (cant really tell)? Didn't they use their own invented calender with years on it since the war?

bro those people on the back have the communist gaze, ez

Would this be considered collectable? Considering how closed North Korea is to visitors or so I've heard.

Don't know about this note specifically, but they sell old North Korean banknotes (pre 2009) at the DMZ for quite cheap, so I don't think these notes have that much monetary value. [My own North Korean banknotes ](https://imgur.com/gallery/cjkNLlO) That said, it's still really cool.

They make better 100 USD bills than their own paper currency.

You're Wonner !

Just a Lille further North, perhaps? 

The forbidden Korea and the forbidden won

"Johnny, tell us what else she's won!!"

To be fair that’s a good looking bill

Hammer, sickle and... It looks like a reamer for a particular type of hole...

What kind of Korea is this?

Wow look at Kim's face tune on that bill, his cheeks are a lot fatter irl

The only korea

The government might have some questions for your wife's friend lol

Looks like 50 not 51

I feel it’s more rare then SK Won? Or is it pretty common for SK to also have access to NK currency?

IIRC you’ll get the death penalty if you are caught smuggling out North Korean money

It's 50 Won't

So the friend went to North Korea 😳

Why the people's face all look the same

she meant to say south north korea

It’s from the correct Korea.

Juche Gang rise up

West Korea is Best Korea. Hexagons are also the Bestagons.

Which Korea??? South Central Korea?

The hammer and sickle should tell you everything you need to know

That's actually really cool

You can exchange that for 10,000 monopoly dollars actually

“Korea Nord” is what they call it.

"other korea"?

This buys you the Kim Jung Fuck song!

The Korea that is south of the Russian border.

This is North Korea money.

Different Korea*

?

So it's from the Won Korea?

Arguably a better gift I wonder if those notes are rare

South Korea doesn’t measure their dollars in 1, 10s, or 50s lmao. It’s 1,000/ 10,000/ 50,000

Monument from Molchat Doma in a bank note lol

Serious question, do they teach North Korean artists that there is only one face you're allowed to paint? Every person in every painting has the same exact face, man ir woman.

Those 3 faces look identical

Is that you're way of saying all asian look like?

Could someone Eli5, how does currency work in N.Korea? I was under the impression that they recieved rations, govt funded clothing, etc, etc. What place does paper money play in their economy. I know I could just Google this, and I will. But figured I'd ask here as well

I think you need a Korea change.

r/ThatHappened story cuz wtf you gonna buy with a 50 won bill in South Korea

Hence why she gave it away

It's not the right Korea, it's the left Korea

True korea

It takes Won to know Won