Nowadays, there are many people traveling abroad, and there are also many people traveling to North Korea. I have been to North Korea a few times in the past few years, and during my time in North Korea, I noticed an interesting phenomenon, that is, there are long queues everywhere in North Korea. In rural areas of North Korea, you can see peasant collectives lining up to work in the fields, lining up to plant seedlings, and lining up for meetings on the fields. In North Korean cities, long queues are more common.
Whether in front of the bus stop sign or on the subway platform, you can always see people in line. There are many people standing in front of shops, restaurants, and scenic spots. North Korean street soldiers will queue up, and students will also queue. Queuing has become a daily routine for ordinary people. The North Koreans line up very seriously, they will not rush and will not cut the queue, everyone is not in a hurry and quietly queues.
Especially during commuting, in front of the bus stop sign, you can often discharge a team of hundreds of meters. But the people waiting for the bus were very well-behaved. Honestly wait for the bus, if this bus is not crowded, they will continue to wait for the next one. Why do North Koreans get into the habit of queuing? This has to do with the standard of living of North Koreans, which is about the same as ours in the seventies and eighties. In those days, we had to queue up for everything. For example, to buy pork, you have to take the meat ticket and line up to buy it. To buy food, you have to line up with food stamps. Now that the supplies are extremely abundant, there is no need to queue up to buy a lot of things.
Second, North Koreans live at a slow pace. Because of the slow pace of life, North Koreans do not panic in anything, they have enough patience to queue up. In front of the Okryu Hall in North Korea, I saw thousands of people lining up for cold noodles. In order to eat the cold noodles of Yuryukan, it is normal to queue for several hours. Moreover, North Koreans like to queue up for social environment. The entire DPRK society speaks of collectivity and discipline. Queuing is the embodiment of collectivity.
In general, queuing has become commonplace for North Koreans. Compared with North Korean locals, we foreign tourists who travel to North Korea do not like to queue very much. Even if the tour guide asks everyone to line up to visit the attraction, the line is crooked, and the queue is not serious at all. What do you think about this?