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The chocolate treat so popular in North Korea that workers are buying it for up to a day's wages
At best, theirs is a fractious relationship. But it seems that the two Koreas have been united by one thing - a love of chocolate. For a marshmallow chocolate pie has become so popular in North Korea that people are buying it for up to a day's pay on the black market after it has been smuggled out of the South.
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It's my understanding that some N. Korean factory workers receive these (and other S. Korean food products) instead of wages. So for many of them, it's not about supplementing their income; selling this stuff is the only way they can afford their own necessities.
On a side note, I live in S. Korea and I think chocopies are kind of awful....
Poor guys don't have snacks in their country and have to resort to spending their live savings on them