Someone I’ve never even met made a TikTok post about the “Capitalist in North Korea” who lived and worked there for seven years—no joke. And it blew up: over 8,000 likes and more than 200 comments. Wow.
That’s definitely not the kind of reaction I would have received from mainstream media audiences, who tend to be quite hostile toward anyone engaging with this underreported and usually misrepresented country, or from Wikipedia editors, which is not the neutral encyclopedia it claims to be.
Intrigued by this rare story? Want to dive deeper into the life of a real capitalist in North Korea? Here are some links:
You can also find a full description of the book and its author on Goodreads.
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Felix Abt is an entrepreneur, author and travel blogger, living in Asia.
With his articles, he tries to make a modest contribution to debunking the omnipresent propaganda of the mainstream media for those who don’t have the time (and that’s most people) to do the research to see through it.
