M: I have collected something to keep for fun.
M: I have an envelope in Mao’s time.
M: original.
M: now, the price of it should be several times of the price it was when I collected it.
U: i’m sure that would be a great collector’s item
U: lots of history
M: yeah.
M: there should be a lot of things which are valuable and could get with little money in North Korea, I think.
M: like China before it opened its door to the rest of the world.
U: maybe for persons who have a deep interest in history
U: i remember when the Soviet union fell….in the few years that followed there were many items for sell from Soviet times as collectables
M: yeah, I heard that during that time, some Chinese in Northeast China exchanged a lot of valuable stuff with general stuff from Russians.
U: you shouldn’t think that items will sell in North korea…no one has money to buy “collectables” in North korea
U: they barely have enough to buy food and clothes….sometimes
M: I mean you can collect them and then sell them to the rest of the world.
U: yes…you are right about that
M: When China had planned economy, the paintings of the artists were selled by the gov’t.
M: the price was same for all the artists’s works
M: the paintings were priced by the size
M: then, when some people went to China, they just went to buy some paintings from that official shop and then sold them aboard.
M: All their spendings for their trip to China were covered by the benefits of these tradings.
U: yes…i’m sure these works of art were pure bargains…and probably got a very good price outside of China
M: but now, China has opened its door for many years. The artists can sell their works themselves now, so the golden area is gone.
M: so, maybe North Korea has something similar now.
U: i’m not sure
M: 😛
M: you can go there to check it. 😉