Financial Services,  Korea,  North Korea

Your Plastic Friend

This is an absolute must-have for the discerning anti-imperialist tourist, with a weapons-grade sense of trust.  A North Korean debit card!

Because of the lack of small change in tills in the DPRK for when travellers or NGO workers offer Western currency notes, the Narae (trans. Wing) card has been instigated in which, according to the above link, up to $1,000 can be lodged allowing the user to enjoy all the wonderments which are available such as Juche discos.

That said, NK Economy Watch is puzzled about discrepancies between the sales pitch in this link and his original coverage of Narae’s launch.  I would not recommend further investigation, though, as – just a hunch, like – it will be as about as stable as Icelandic financial markets in early 2008.