N. Korean youth resist order to end side hustles, with women saying ‘might as well get married instead’

N. Korean youth resist order to end side hustles, with women saying ‘might as well get married instead’

Socialist Patriotic Youth League (SPYL)’s Hyesan branch demands young people engaged in aekbeori work report to assigned workplaces, threatening collective work brigade assignments, but faces fierce resistance from market-dependent generation. A source in Hyesan, Ryanggang province, told Daily NK recently that the SPYL “has made boosting youth workplace attendance a key year-end activity” and that the league’s Hyesan branch is “putting intense p…