Despite North Korea's centralized together with state-controlled economic scheme at that topographic point are 436 officially sanctioned markets located across the country. Since the 1990's famine, together with against the backdrop of the collapse of fiscal back upward from the Soviet Union, the North Korean economic scheme has begun to rely to a greater extent than together with to a greater extent than on the person company of street markets.
Beyond Parallel has created an interactive map showing the locations of General Markets inward North Korea. If yous choose a marketplace on the interactive map yous tin persuasion the lay out of stalls inward the market, its physical size together with the annual rent paid to the government. The map too includes a slide command which allows yous to filter the markets on the map past times the sum of rent paid to the government. You tin fifty-fifty persuasion aerial imagery of the larger markets past times switching to the 'Satellite Image' map layer.
The Beyond Parallel interactive map solely shows the locations of officially recognized full general markets. These markets must pay rents to the government. The map doesn't present unofficial or dark markets. The unofficial markets are harder to map because they are oftentimes less permanent together with oftentimes role makeshift or temporary structures together with spaces.
