By So who knows what city this photo was taken?:
Korea Finder Leader’s Board:
1.Kushibo – 10
2.Leon Laporte – 8
3.Mr. Chips – 4
4.Chickenhead – 2
5.Cloying Odor -2
6.Regulate – 1
7.Max – 1
8.JoeC – 1
9.Jeffrey Miller – 1
The person with the most points at the end of the year of the weekly Korea Finder contest will be rewarded with a book or DVD of their choice from Amazon.com. Also note that if you have a picture that you think would make a great Korea Finder feel free to send it in to me.
She hasn’t seen...
3:10 am on November 10th, 2011 1
Pyongyang or possibly Kaesong.
3:11 am on November 10th, 2011 2
Yup. Pyongyang.
3:25 am on November 10th, 2011 3
“Hey, that’s my car!”, says some rich guy in Macau whose car was jacked a few months ago.
3:27 am on November 10th, 2011 4
Teadrinker wrote:
Now here’s where GI Korea comes in and says, “Yeah, I’m pretty sure that car belongs to someone in Macau, so Teadrinker gets the point.”
3:43 am on November 10th, 2011 5
Hmmm, not hard to read a license plate.
3:46 am on November 10th, 2011 6
Not hard indeed, but just because it has a Pyongyang plate does not mean the picture was taken there. I have loads of pics of my Seoul car taken in places far removed from the capital (sadly, though, my car in Honolulu can not leave Honolulu).
In fact, at first I thought this looked like Kaesŏng’s industrial complex, but then I remembered seeing this photo at Eric Lafforgue’s photo stream. The guy travels to North Korea a lot and takes some interesting photos. His shots of people are especially interesting.
5:27 am on November 10th, 2011 7
#4,
You still don’t get why I think the car was originally owned by someone in Macau?
8:19 am on November 10th, 2011 8
#7 another interesting twist (besides the possible son #1′s car thing) is the fact that there are two American cars up front in this picture both with Pyongyang license plates on them. Whoda thunk it? Kind-of like seeing Pyongyang soju for sale in an LA 7-11…
9:24 am on November 10th, 2011 9
FORD…
Found On Ryugyong Driveway?
9:51 am on November 10th, 2011 10
Yes Kushibo got it. This is a picture of a Hummer in Pyongyang from Eric Lafforgue’s photostream. The Hummer is apparently used by a local media outfit in Pyongyang.
6:32 pm on November 10th, 2011 11
#8,
North Korea does a lot of business in Macau, whose casinos used to be controled by local gangs until they were purged by the CCP as soon as Portugal returned the island to China. The local gangs were replaced by a different breed of gangsters (kleptocrats). It’s no coincidence that Kim Jong-il’s son has lived there for quite a long time.
#10,
Further evidence that the local media is controled by the relatives of the gangsters who run the country, not that there ever was doubt about it.
8:50 pm on November 10th, 2011 12
I’m more intrigued by that Ford next to the Hummer.
9:08 pm on November 10th, 2011 13
Living in North Korea’s a bummer
but the foreign aid comes in the summer.
In a good neighborhood,
you don’t have to eat wood,
’cause your dong gets a big US Hummer.