The Maximum Leader! (C’mon…Cheer!!!…
as if your life depended on it)
According to a report in the March 23 JoonAng Daily, there are reports of privately run-shops being opened in North Korea, as well as “illicit beer bars, karaoke clubs and computer cafes.” Furthermore,
According to the report, students at Kim Il Sung University are studying with textbooks that cover market principles, starting with the laws of supply and demand.
I’m interested to learn more (and have sent an email to the journalist) because I worked to get Paul Heyne’s wonderful book The Economic Way of Thinking translated and published in Russian, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, and Albanian. I have been very gratified years later when I correspond with students whose first exposure to the ideas of a free society were through that textbook in their college courses. Maybe it’s time for a Korean edition. (Come to think of it….I should contact the classical liberals in Seoul!)
Hat Tip to an anonymous tip.
Update: Anonymous tip has revealed himself as Mike Fieschko. He just sent me a link to a tantalizing piece on Korean politics from The Chosun Ilbo, which also caused me to remember the fine work of the Center for Free Enterprise in Seoul. It’s definitely worth a visit.
North Korea: economic reforms spread, students stu
In Report says North Korean reforms spread, Seoul’s JoongAng Ilbo daily looks at a paper from the South’s Unification Ministry and the Korea Institute of National Unification, a government think tank: following and because of economic liberalization …