Beer is a big deal in North Korea. Taedonggang Beer is one of the best-known local beers. In 2000 the state-run brewery bought up an entire British brewery, shipped it toNorth Korea and two years later opened for business just outside Pyongyang.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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(CNN) -- It has the world's tallest unoccupied building, it puts on theworld's biggest annual show and it's sometimes prone to petulantnuclear threats.

But what else do you know about North Korea?

1. North Koreans brew great beer

North Koreans love a pint and have a thriving beer brewing culture.

Taedonggang Beer is one of the best-known local beers. In 2000 the state-run brewery bought up an entire British brewery, shipped it to North Korea and two years later opened for business just outside Pyongyang.

 

North Korea: The unseen view

Taedonggang Beer is a full-bodied lager and is named after the capital's Taedong River.

2. High heels are in

Women love their high heels and many wear four-inch heels day and night, to work, to do the shopping, in the military -- we even spotted a woman working on a construction site in a pair.

The wedge heel made its appearance in the isolated state four or five years ago -- a trend that made its way across the border from China. Today there are still plenty of wedge heels about, but it's the thin heel that is Pyongyang's must-have fashion accessory today.

Local cell phones allow all the functions of a regular mobile, with the exception of access to the Internet.

3. You can bring your mobile

Visitors no longer need to leave their mobiles behind. As of January, you can bring your phone into the country and buy a local SIM card from a booth at the airport.

The SIM card allows you to make and receive international calls and call other foreigners in Pyongyang who have mobiles -- you can't call locals as they are on a different network.

A local SIM card for two weeks goes for €50 ($66), but be warned -- calls are expensive ($6.60 a minute to call the United States).

North Korea's Koryolink has more than 2 million subscribers. The local cell phones allow all the functions of a regular mobile -- make calls, listen to music, take photos -- with the exception of access to the Internet.

Given the regular power outages, the "light" function on mobiles gets plenty of use.

4. People love to sing

Most North Koreans can carry a tune and if you ask someone -- politely -- to sing a song they will probably oblige -- on the spot, with no accompaniment.

Pop music is big, especially songs with lyrics. The best-known Western group is still the Beatles -- "Hey Jude" and "Yellow Submarine" are high on the list -- and Celine Dion and the Carpenters also go down well.

No surprise then that most bars have karaoke.

The all-girl band Moranbong is the most popular local group. The girls -- who were apparently hand-picked by North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un -- wear skimpy dresses and belt out pop tunes, the North's answer to K-pop.

5. Car park volleyball

Volleyball is one of the most popular sports and North Koreans often strike up a game in their lunch hour.

The games can be fast and fun, men and women often playing together. The lack of a net is no obstacle and many games start up casually in a car park or any open space.

Korean wrestling is also very popular.

Behind the veil: Rare look at life in North Korea

Pyongyang's metro network is reportedly the world's deepest.

6. The Metro is seriously deep

The Pyongyang Metro is 100 meters underground and it takes a couple of minutes to ride the escalator down to the station. The journey is long enough that some commuters sit on the steps -- despite the signs asking passengers not to.

There are no advertisements on the walls to distract you on the ride down to the station -- just bare white walls. (There are only five advertising billboards in Pyongyang, all owned by the same car dealership).

The underground network has two lines and 17 stations. Inspired by the grand Moscow Metro, many of the stations have ornate chandeliers and paintings and murals on the walls.

7. Crazy about kimchi

Kimchi -- spicy pickled vegetables -- is the national dish and it's said that every woman makes a different kind of kimchi.

The dish is time-consuming to make and the traditional recipe requires women to lovingly swirl and smear hot pepper paste over cabbage leaves for hours.

Simon Cockerell of Koryo Tours, which specializes in travel to the reclusive socialist state, says: "There's a saying that you must taste a woman's kimchi before you marry her."

Straight lines come natural in North Korea.

8. Single-hearted unity

North Koreans seem to have an innate ability to form a line -- not a queue, but dead straight lines.

The training begins as young children and by the time they are in their teens a crowd of hundreds can organize themselves into any number of parallel lines, equally spaced, in a minute.

Whether it's factory workers walking down the street, people gathering to lay flowers beneath a statue of the Great Leader, or soldiers jogging, moving in formation, showing "single-hearted unity" is the order of the day.

And it's catching. Spend a week touring the capital and your guides will make sure you get give plenty of practice forming lines.

9. You won('t) see that

The local currency is the won, but foreigners are not allowed to use it. Instead visitors must use hard currency -- U.S. dollars, euros and renminbi.

Bizarrely, given the proximity to China, the Renminbi offers the worst exchange rate. Euros get the best rate at present.

Pyongyang isn't a shopping destination. North Koreans do most of their shopping in the local markets -- there is a blue-roofed market in most neighborhoods, but foreigners aren't allowed to visit these.

Officially, visitors aren't allowed in department stores either, but this is a rule that is given much more flexibility.

Visitors tend to be herded into the Foreign Language Bookstore and stamp and souvenir shops where you can stock up on propaganda posters, North Korean stamps and postcards and books by Kim Jong Il (he wrote -- or ghostwrote -- hundreds).

Two North Koreans display their "Kim pins."

10. Kim pins

All North Koreans wear a "Kim pin" on the left breast of whatever they are wearing. The pins show a portrait of Kim Il Sung or his son, Kim Jong Il -- and sometimes both.

Surprisingly given that everyone wears one -- from infants to old folks -- there are no shops selling the pins. Instead they are given out sporadically -- on special occasions and to mark significant events -- and there are lots of different styles. The style doesn't denote anything, just the period it was given out.

There is a story that North Koreans will be punished if they give a Kim pin to a foreigner, but that's a myth and they are occasionally given to visitors.

啤酒是一個大問題，在朝鮮。大同江啤酒是最有名的本地啤酒之一。2000年，國營酒廠買下了整個英國的釀酒廠，運到朝鮮，並在兩年後正式開業只是平壤之外。

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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故事突出

• 朝鮮人很熱情的啤酒飲用者
• 朝鮮對高跟鞋和泡菜一個巨大的美眉
• 如果你是行駛在北朝鮮，韓元將可以看到過去的貨幣

 

（CNN） -它擁有世界上最高的建築無人居住，它把對世界上最大的年度大戲，它有時容易暴躁的核威脅。

還有什麼你知道北朝鮮？

1，朝鮮釀造啤酒的大

朝鮮人愛一個品脫，有一個蓬勃發展的啤酒釀造文化。

大同江啤酒是最有名的本地啤酒之一。2000年，國營酒廠買下了整個英國的釀酒廠，運到朝鮮，並在兩年後正式開業只是平壤之外。

 

朝鮮：看不見的視圖

大同江啤酒是一種濃郁的啤酒和資本的大同江而得名。

2，高跟鞋是

女人愛自己的高跟鞋和許多穿4吋高跟鞋一天一夜，上班，去購物，在軍事上 - 我們甚至發現了一個女人的工作在工地上的一對。

坡跟鞋處於孤立狀態作出了外觀四五年前 - 這一趨勢越過邊境從中國製造它的方式。今天，仍然有很多關於楔形高跟鞋，但它的細跟鞋是平壤必須具備的時尚配飾今天。

當地的手機讓一個普通手機的全部功能，除了能上網的。

3，你可以把你的手機

參觀者不再需要離開自己的手機落後。截至1月份，你可以把你的手機變成了國家，從一個攤位在機場購買當地的SIM卡。

SIM卡可以讓你撥打和接聽國際長途電話和呼叫在平壤的外國人誰擁有手機 - 你不能叫本地人，因為他們是在不同的網絡上。

當地的SIM卡了兩個星期去為€37（66），但被警告 - 電話是昂貴的（6.60美元一分鐘，撥打美國）。

朝鮮的商Koryolink已超過200萬用戶。當地的手機讓一個普通手機的全部功能 - 撥打電話，聽音樂，拍照 - 除了能上網的。

由於經常停電，手機上的“光”的功能得到充足利用。

4，人們喜歡唱歌

大多數朝鮮人可以攜帶一首曲子，如果你問別人 - 禮貌 - 唱的一首歌，他們可能會迫使 - 就在現場，沒有伴奏。

流行音樂是很大的，歌詞特別的歌曲。最知名的西方集團仍是甲殼蟲 - “嘿裘德”和“黃色潛水艇”是名單上的高 - 和席琳·迪翁和木匠也很好下來。

毫不奇怪，大多數酒吧都唱卡拉OK。

全女子樂隊牡丹峰是最流行的本地組。女生 - 誰顯然欽點由北韓領導人金正恩 - 穿輕薄的衣服和帶出流行音樂，朝鮮的答案K-POP。

5，汽車 公園排球

排球是最流行的運動之一，朝鮮經常罷工了遊戲在他們的午餐時間。

該遊戲可以快速，有趣，男人和女人經常一起玩。淨缺乏的是沒有任何障礙和許多遊戲啟動隨便在停車場或任何開放空間。

韓國摔跤也很受歡迎。

背後的面紗：罕見看看生活在朝鮮

平壤的地鐵網絡據說是世界上最深的。

6，地鐵是嚴重的深

平壤地鐵站100米的地下，它需要一兩分鐘，乘坐自動扶梯下到車站。這次旅行是足夠長的時間，一些乘客坐的台階上 - 儘管要求乘客不得跡象。

還有牆壁上沒有廣告，以分散你的注意力就騎下來到車站 - 只是光禿禿的白牆。（只剩下五的廣告牌在平壤，全部由相同的汽車經銷店擁有）。

地下網絡有兩條線和17個車站。由盛大莫斯科地鐵的啟發，很多站都在牆壁上華麗的吊燈，油畫和壁畫。

7，瘋狂的泡菜

泡菜 - 辣泡菜 - 是國菜，它的說，每一個女人讓不同類型的泡菜。

這道菜是耗時的製作和傳統的配方要求婦女親切漩渦，並塗抹辣椒醬在白菜葉上幾個小時。

高麗之旅，專門從事旅遊的隱居社會主義國家的西蒙·科克雷爾說：“有句話說得好，你必須嚐嚐女人的泡菜，然後娶她。”

直線來自然在朝鮮。

8，單一心團結

朝鮮似乎有一種與生俱來的能力，以形成一條線 - 不是一個隊列，但死的直線。

培訓開始為年幼的孩子和他們在十幾歲的時候一群數以百計的可以自己組織成任意數量的平行線，等距，在一分鐘內。

無論是工廠的工人走在街上，人們聚集獻花偉大領袖的雕像下，或士兵慢跑，動中形成，呈現“單一心團結”是家常便飯。

和它的追趕。花一個星期的巡迴資本和你的導遊將確保你得到給予大量的實踐中形成的線條。

9，你贏了（'t）的發現

當地貨幣為韓元，但不允許外國人來使用它。而不是遊客必須使用硬貨幣 - 美元，歐元和人民幣。

奇怪的是，考慮到鄰近中國的人民幣提供了最壞的匯率。歐元獲得最佳的速度在目前。

平壤是不是一個購物的好去處。朝鮮人做他們的大部分購物在當地市場 - 有一個藍色的屋頂市場在大多數的街區，但不允許外國人前往這些。

據官方統計，旅客並不百貨公司要么允許，但是這是給了更多的靈活性的規則。

參觀者往往會被趕進了外文書店和郵票和紀念品商店，你可以通過金正日囤積的宣傳海報，朝鮮郵票和明信片和書籍（他寫了 - 或ghostwrote - 數百個）。

兩個朝鮮施展“金銷。”

10，金銷

所有的朝鮮人戴“金腳”就什麼，他們都穿著的左乳房。該引腳顯示金日成和他的兒子，金正日的肖像 - 有時兩者。

令人驚訝的因為每個人都穿著1 - 從嬰兒到老人 - 有沒有商店賣的引腳。相反，他們給出了零星 - 在特殊的場合和紀念顯著事件 - 有各種不同的風格。風格不表示什麼，只是它被賦予了時間。

還有的是，朝鮮如果他們給一個金銷給外國人，但是這是一個神話，他們偶爾給參觀者將受到懲罰的故事。