Skinny jeans, adult films and human excrement were among some of the most wanted items for consumers in North Korea, Yonhap news agency reported Tuesday.
Kim Young-soo, a political science professor at Seoul’s Sogang University, said at a conference Tuesday that the items were selling “like hot cakes” in North Korea.
Kim interviewed several recent defectors from the Communist country, who said that other popular items sold in North Korea included TV dramas and instant noodles.
Yonhap reported that shops began selling human excrement to deal with acute shortages of fertilizer in NorthKorea. “Each household used to use human excrement as fertilizer, but because it’s hard to keep up with the amount, human manure shops showed up at markets,” Kim said.
Skinny jeans also became popular items for sale in the North after a ban on fashionable trousers was lifted.
“Skinny jeans are now popular and are changing the fashion style of women in Pyongyang,” Kim added, citing sources in North Korea.