{"id":332,"date":"2011-06-18T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centives.wordpress.com\/?p=332"},"modified":"2011-06-18T09:00:33","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T13:00:33","slug":"north-korean-waitresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2011\/north-korean-waitresses\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean Waitresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/centives.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/061411_0617_northkorean1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One strange fact about North Korea is that the country has a chain of restaurants around the world serving traditional North Korean cuisine made and served by North Korean citizens. People aren&#8217;t sure about the motivation behind these restaurants with some suggesting that it is an important source of foreign exchange while others argue that it is a product of Kim Jong Il&#8217;s ego. Whatever the reason, Sebastian Strangio from the Atlantic magazine recently published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2011\/06\/for-north-korean-state-waitresses-abroad-lives-of-rigor-and-temptation\/239943\/\">this piece<\/a> on a North Korean restaurant in Cambodia. Some highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The restaurant was full even on a Wednesday night<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Sweet meat&#8221; is a North Korean euphemism for dog<\/li>\n<li>The waitresses perform song sand dances every night. ABBA&#8217;s Dancing Queen is one of them<\/li>\n<li>The North Korean staff live in quarters above the restaurant and don&#8217;t seem to have much freedom to leave<\/li>\n<li>In the wake of the Middle East uprisings, North Korean workers abroad were prevented from returning home in case they spread the revolutionary ideas<\/li>\n<li>To be allowed to work at the restaurant, the worker&#8217;s entire family history is checked, going back to their grandparents.<\/li>\n<li>Only the tallest and prettiest girls are allowed to work at the restaurants<\/li>\n<li>North Korean agents are on site all the time to make sure that nobody defects. The families of the workers are held hostage by the regime<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can read more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2011\/06\/for-north-korean-state-waitresses-abroad-lives-of-rigor-and-temptation\/239943\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2011\/06\/for-north-korean-state-waitresses-abroad-lives-of-rigor-and-temptation\/239943\/\">The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One strange fact about North Korea is that the country has a chain of restaurants around the world serving traditional North Korean cuisine made and served by North Korean citizens. People aren&#8217;t sure about the motivation behind these restaurants with some suggesting that it is an important source of foreign exchange while others argue that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}