Pyongyang (and to some extent a few other places) get a meaningful volume of tourism (though it has waned with Covid, that waning is regarded as temporary I think). I don’t really know why a pet store has English signage like that though, since I don’t think the tourists have much business there. Maybe just for when they take pictures and videos to publish for an international audience?
Photo 23 & 24 shows Kim Jong Un + daughter at pet store. I’ve wondered why many of DPRK signs have English translations.
lingua franca for international tourists, although i might’ve guessed they don’t have the numbers coming through to need it.
Pyongyang (and to some extent a few other places) get a meaningful volume of tourism (though it has waned with Covid, that waning is regarded as temporary I think). I don’t really know why a pet store has English signage like that though, since I don’t think the tourists have much business there. Maybe just for when they take pictures and videos to publish for an international audience?
perhaps they broadly regulate all such signage and don’t micromanage it enough that anybody cares to make an exception on the business type.
canada has french labelling requirements even in the places where nobody speaks it.
That’s a good point