TIL there are DPRK-operated restaurants in China
bit idea: being a tradwife but for north korean fashion and aesthetics
this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2025
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I've definitely worked a fair bit on the "tradwife bit, but for past socialist states" idea before. My preferred implementation is "1950s teenage girl Soviet sympathiser", the vibes of the kinds of videos my "Katie" persona would make if I ever actually did anything with her are "it's just after WWII, your big sister is babysitting you and running the house while Mum's out shopping, and she's explaining how McCarthy is an idiot and grown ups are all too fast to forget that the Soviets were our allies against the fascist scourge".
But yeah, I've definitely workshopped the "tradwife vibes, but for 50s USSR, not 50s USA" bit before, and "modern DPRK, not 50s America" is also a good twist on the bit. I like it.
Check the fit
About a week ago, youtube recommended me the White Boy Orders Food from North Korean Restaurant in Perfect Dialect video.
Yeah, that video inspired this post — it's Xiaomanyc, his whole deal is that he actually has at least intermediate Chinese and then learns like A1 level of a whole bunch of languages after studying them for like a month to ShOcK nAtIvEs. I think it does have some value in exposing viewers to more cultures but you might disagree for some very good reasons
Are there differences in accent or dialect between the Korean spoken in the North and the South?
Yes, in North Korea, the Pyongyang dialect is standard, and there are differences in terms (e.g. Chosŏn'gŭl instead of Hangul, a term often translated as "American imperialist bastards", etc.)
a term often translated as "American imperialist bastards"
Ooh I like that.
I'm not sure there are any languages with speakers separated by a barrier (either political or natural) that don't have accents/dialects altered due to geography.
Definitely, it's just interesting to see such a stark divide put in place so recently (on a linguistic timescale), few better examples to see how a language diverges in real time
Well, now I have questions about East and West Germany...
Don't they have different accents? I'm pretty sure they did even before the war, no? Prussia and Bavaria had different accents, for example.
Well, for starters, I heard ROK is way more likely to have English loanwords, while DPRK, if must borrow, takes loans from Russian or Chinese loanwords
But communism no food?
You can still have restaurants. They just dont serve anything.
Wonder if anyone on Rednote has been there
That's cool I wonder what kind of dishes they serve there.
Im a vegetarian that doesnt particularly like vegetables, but I still want to go for a look.
Songdo won (sp because hangeul is weird)
I'm going to guess the third hanja is 园
Edit: ah they have the hanja on the foldable sign: {松涛园|songtao yuan} 'garden of wind blowing through pine needles'