North Korea’s markets run on information—and increasingly, on cell phones. This episode explores how traders at jangmadang, North Korea’s informal marketplaces, use phones to share prices, coordinate transport, move money, and navigate corruption in a gray-zone economy tolerated by the state. It also shows how COVID-19 restrictions disrupted trade and reshaped daily life inside North Korea.

This video/podcast series is sponsored by the UniKorea Foundation. 

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