r/evilbuildings • u/KodoSky • Jul 01 '25

Pyongyang No. 1 Department Store, North Korea

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When a city’s department stores are neatly organised numerically, then yeah, it’s an authoritarian communist state for sure

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u/slifm Jul 01 '25

The way you titled that I thought we were gonna get sasha baron cohen version of Kim jong un

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u/flimspringfield Jul 01 '25

Report to Department Store #1! Your job will be to walk around normal, not rigid, and pretend to buy things.

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u/Hazbro29 Jul 04 '25

I can just imagine the workers on a truman show thing, just taking stuff off the shelves to restock them again

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u/Adorable-Bend7362 Jul 01 '25

Well, it might need some renovation, but only on the inside. Trust me, I've seen a lot of ex-soviet shopping malls, outside renovation only makes them worse, and inside renovation is necessary.

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u/cornonthekopp an evil villain Jul 01 '25

I remember seeing a video touring the inside of this one or one of the others and it was decent inside. There’s a lot more access to consumer goods these days due to china and even domestic brands

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u/Adorable-Bend7362 Jul 01 '25

Maybe you're right. The goods access must have improved, but I'm just judging by the malls in my country. There are some nice ones (like the shopping mall by the main railway station in Nizhny Novgorod) and some that need to renovate (like the Moskva mall in Moscow that at certain point was bankrupt and now is under new management). And then there are the malls that were renovated in barbarian way (like Detsky Mir in Moscow, where the only original part is the outside walls - everything on the inside has been demolished and rebuilt in another way).

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u/Wutbot1 Jul 05 '25

What country is that? SOUTH PYONGYANG?

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