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Jangmadang
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- Background
- Overview
- As a source of livelihood
- Food security
- Goods and services offered
- Role in possible reforms
- Access to outside information
- Suppression and regulation by North Korean government
- Age and gender regulation
- Currency reforms
- 2021 crackdowns
- Changing gender roles in North Korean society
- See also
- References
- Citations
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|upright=2.0|alt=Sinuiju railway station in North Korea|Sinuiju is a major hub for North Korean formal and informal economy due to its proximity to the Chinese border. The Sinuiju railway station is portrayed here.
Jangmadang (; ; ) are North Korean local markets, farmers' markets, black markets and bazaars. Since the North Korean famine in the 1990s, they have formed a large informal economy, and the government has become more lenient towards them. However, merchants still face heavy regulations. A majority of North Koreans have become dependent on jangmadang for their survival.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jangmadang” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.