Housing, medical care are free in North Korea

In North Korea, one of the three policies of the country is live in house at no cost. Whether rural or urban areas, house is to build national unity, and then assigned to each citizen to live. Assigned to the citizens of the country house is free of charge, as long as there is a house for a wedding. The small size of the 70 - 80 square meters, a large 100 - 200 square meters. Housing benefits is also reflected in not only the national free housing allocation, and also the allocation of household items such as wardrobe and so on. Shou Fang Fei is not even the usual cost of housing, such as health, electricity, water, property, heating in winter are all unified supply. Usually a family usually combined electricity and water heating costs is two Asamoto, only nominal fees.








To implement its own citizens free health care system, and the establishment of preventive medical system in North Korea. But foreigners in general should go to see a doctor that designated hospitals and are required to pay costs, higher medical costs.






North Korea's patriarchal ideology, but the majority of Korean men, or machismo. It is said that young people get married, as long as the man wearing a suit on the line, the other by the woman's burden. After marriage, a man returned home from work to do nothing, waiting for his wife serve is unalterable. Such a view, the Korean people "son preference" will well understand.





Pyongyang downtown, the road is wide. You will see high-rise residential buildings everywhere. There are back in the early 70s of last century to build, and it has the past two years new. Contrary, be mixed in the neighboring high-rise in the number of the appearance of multi-storey buildings, mostly old people work in Pyongyang and shopping areas.





Can not find the shops, because they are usually hidden in a construction inconspicuous side door Lane. of course, no advertising, but there are no large shopping malls or shopping malls.






Whether the streets, or coming and going of the Kim Il Sung Square, eyes reach of the office are clean, no garbage and no one spitting. The strange thing is that the streets of Pyongyang in the city, you almost can not see trash.





Pedestrians on the street wearing a uniform, mostly black, gray, blue and other dark-colored clothing, but from time to time you can see a blur of bright colors of the young girl's figure. It is said that North Korea's official dress code for its own people, there are strict rules to prohibit the fancy dress, including: You can not dye; President can not wear short skirts and can not wear a skirt Shoulder; man can not wear shorts and so on.






Because of bus is less and time interval length, you can see long queue waiting line everwhere. The sidewalks and bike lanes are combined, but the bike is very little. On street parking, you
almost can not see a bike, but it was riding flash by. Bike should be considered a luxury.






I hear that because riding a bike have caused accidents by several cases, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il call was issued to encourage people to walk to work and exercise. Thus, in the rush hour, you can see the streets of Pyongyang and the crowd hurried to walk . It is not unusual to take two-hours walk to work.







Prohibiting the use of mobile phones based on the same reason, North Korea, the ordinary people can not use the Internet. They say the Internet, but internal LAN, the network is not connected to the outside world - although whether it is phone or Internet business, for North Korea does not exist technical obstacles.






About 6000 yuan (at the end of 2006 year exchange rates, approximately 300 yuan), in the North Korean capital Pyongyang supply market, they can only buy less 2 pounds of pork. City tram tickets from the original 10 points rose to 1 yuan, subway fare rose to 2 yuan.