Picture of the Day: Pyongyang Traffic Girl Directs No Traffic

Tags: North Korea

• gerry
  12:24 pm on March 31st, 2009 1

  I have always enjoyed the vidios of Pyongyang where there is little traffic, however, very disciplined traffic girls.

• Cordelia
  12:29 pm on March 31st, 2009 2

  Lol, what is it about these women that is so interesting to men?! It's just a girl directing traffic wearing in a rather non-descript uniform… (although the hat is quite cool!) I am guessing it's sexy somehow, but as a woman I really don't see why. Yet, as far as Western tourists (male) are concerned, these girls seem to be the number one most photographed "attraction" in Pyongyang..! They're all over Flickr for one!

• In Seoul
  12:40 pm on March 31st, 2009 3

  Cordelia, South Korean woman are for more attractive than the women in Pyongyang, and they have a better sense of fashion.

• gerry
  1:00 pm on March 31st, 2009 4

  That disciplined look? Alot of guys like a girl who takes charge.

• ChickenHead
  2:26 pm on March 31st, 2009 5

  Cordelia,

  "Alot of guys like a girl who takes charge."

  Maybe.

  Other guys like a girl who is educated, trained, productive, motivated and well-disciplined. That's another interpretation of the attractiveness of a uniform-fantasy.

• JAFO
  8:32 pm on March 31st, 2009 6

  I'd not only do her, I'd make her scream the Dear Leader's name the whole time just to complete the experience.

  "C'mon commie biatch, take my puppet lackey!"

• schmay
  9:00 pm on March 31st, 2009 7

  I think we need to know more about this girl. Where is her apartment? Is she married? How would she like to come to Jeju and ride horses? She's cool and she's got a job!

• Pete
  10:01 pm on March 31st, 2009 8

  There may be some debate as to which region North or South has the most prettiest girls. North Koreans seem to have the more desirable eyes. I think a lot of the beautiful South Korean girls may have had a parent or grandparent who fled from the North during the war.

• schmay
  1:24 am on April 1st, 2009 9

  I’d do this girl in a heartbeat.

• chefantwon
  12:28 am on April 1st, 2009 10

  I like the uniform and the fact she's asian.

  People have various tastes and the women from asia do have that quality of mystery that western men have been taught.

  What a job, out there directing non-existing traffic, just for the hell of it. It's quite appearent that at least she is eating well.

• sk1nk0
  3:48 am on April 1st, 2009 11

  This picture tells so much more to me than almost any other picture of North Korea. Here's a striking young woman duty her daily duty with a cute hat and a white gloves gripping a bright yellow Whistle. More telling are her black patent shoes with a little bow on them to the perfectly aligned white socks over her undetectable nylons that make it seem like she's from America in the 1950's. Her perfectly ironed blue uniform and her high spit polish black belt across her waist shows how serious she takes her job. Add her authoritative arm band and her energetic raise of the traffic baton and we see something like from another planet, not just a northeastern asian country blocked out from the rest of the world.

  It's something otherworldly alright. North Korea is viewed so badly from the vast majority of the rest of the world. And rightly so with it's authoritative regime and atrocious human rights violations. North Korea is protected from so much wrong in the rest of the world; Serial killers, drug gangs, racial killings, wall street magnates, American Idol, and countless other abhorrent human behaviors.

  It's another world that would be so perfect if it just wasn't so wrong.

• Liz
  6:41 am on April 1st, 2009 12

  Looks like a scene from 'Chitty-chitty Bang bang'

• gerry
  11:04 am on April 1st, 2009 13

  "quality of mystery". I'm sure you must be single or thinking the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. However, what one learns when married to an Oriental or Eskimo is that wherever in the world they come from, all women have gone to the same school.

• In Seoul
  12:01 pm on April 1st, 2009 14

  So true, Gerry. Nevertheless, I would argue that Korean women generally have pluses in there corner that many Western women don’t possess. Prudence restrains me from extensively elaborating. However, one example is the fact that there are considerably fewer overweight women in Korea.

 

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