Selling to survive

Financial Times Anna Fifield 9/19/2007 Pak Hyun-yong was, by North Korean standards, an entrepreneur. Too much of an entrepreneur. During the famine that ravaged the country in the late 1990s, Mr Pak watched his family die of starvation – first his younger brother, then his older sister’s children. Then, eventually, his sister too. Somehow he … Continue reading Selling to survive