Well, I tried the smokes, I’d better have a beer too
North Korea had launched a commercial for their beer, you can watch it here.
In one of the comments below it, the person mentions that the locals are given vouchers and then queue up for it in the afternoon – but, is that just a show for tourists? If people are starving, are they satiated by a beer? Or is it a good enough distraction, and further reinforcement (to the North Koreans) of how advanced their dear leader has become?
Oh shit, am I breaking some sort of morals by wanting to drink this?
You know, it’s like, (assuming you grew up with TV in NA) all those save the children ads we grew up with, where you saw Sally Struthers walking around mostly Africa with children — that imprint, IMO of course, seems to have lasted on many people I know as you hear them talk about traveling to various countries in Southeast Asia (home to some of the highest poverty levels in the world now) and when surrounded by children they feel the urge to give them some money (not that Ms Struthers did that, nor advocated it, I think it’s more that you just feel like you should do something to help and it becomes an immediate reaction). Then, said people are told “By giving money to the local children you are making it profitable for them to beg on the street and therefore, not go to school. Should you want to help, you’d be better to donate that money to a local charitable organization.”
Ok so beer and children really ought not to have anything to do with one another… but you know, sometimes, trying to see that connection, about is it bad for me to want to drink a NK beer, takes a while when you first wake up in the morning … the moral connection I mean… more coffee.
