When traveling to North Korea, we were arranged to visit the subway in Pyongyang. In normal times, we do not have the opportunity to take North Korean public transport. As tourists, we spend most of our time on the coach or in the hotel. Of course, I was very happy to hear that I was able to ride the Pyongyang subway, because I was able to experience the living conditions of the local people up close.
The Pyongyang subway is the deepest subway I have ever seen, and according to our guide, the average depth of the Pyongyang subway reaches more than 100 meters. I stood on the subway and looked down, and I couldn't even see the bottom of it. It takes a few minutes to take the elevator from above to below the subway. After arriving at the Pyongyang subway, I found that the architecture here is very retro, with the style of the former Soviet Union.
There are many people in Pyongyang who commute to work by subway every day, because North Korea's subway fares are very cheap. Although there is no air conditioning in the subway, because the depth is deep enough, it is warm in winter and cool in summer, and the temperature is very comfortable. When we got on the subway, we didn't take the subway separately from the local passengers, as other tourists said.
In the subway cars we got on, there were also ordinary North Korean passengers. Among them were several North Korean students wearing red scarves riding the subway. When I entered the subway, one of the little girls wearing a red scarf volunteered to get up and give me a seat. Although she didn't speak Chinese, she smiled at me and waved me to sit in her seat, which touched me very much.
After this lovely North Korean girl gave me up her seat, I gave her a box of chocolates that I had brought from China. Although the little girl refused, I forced it into her. She finally accepted it with a smile. Her classmates looked at him with envy when they saw him receive the chocolates. But because I didn't have many things to bring, I didn't have enough gifts for other children. In North Korea, there are very few shops that sell chocolate, and in one store I saw chocolate for sale, but the price was so high that I am afraid that the average North Korean person would not be willing to buy it. Therefore, if you can receive chocolate in North Korea, it is still very enviable.