The most obvious of these is North Korean officials. For the benefit of myself and my family, and in order to control the senior officials of state-owned enterprises, I put the money in the national pocket into my own pocket. Because many women manage private enterprises in the economy with Korean characteristics, the phenomenon of "husband and wife partnership" is not uncommon. It is often the husband who is in charge of state-owned assets, giving benefits to his wife's company and achieving the purpose of transferring property. In the marriage of North Korean elites, the son of an official and the daughter of a businessman are the most common combinations. This combination ensures the maximum benefit and can put the country's money into your pocket most efficiently. On the other hand, it also ensures that the people of the official and business classes will not fall on the social ladder.
However, North Korea's laws and regulations are very strict. Why can the authorities condone this corruption? To say the least, it is illegal to own private enterprises. Why can the government tolerate these enterprises springing up like mushrooms after rain?
Indeed, if all these laws and regulations are strictly observed and enforced, then the market economy will really have no place. But when the new century comes, all these regulations have become a dead letter. Grassroots officials in charge of law enforcement are not better off than ordinary people, and they also have to worry about eating and drinking.
Therefore, corruption unheard of before the 1990s is now pervasive in North Korea-officials have to eat and live. Rules and regulations have become empty talk because they are too inhuman and too strict. Dig deep, who didn't break the law? The law does not blame the public.
In North Korea, although the "household contract responsibility system" is not allowed on the surface, and each family can only legally own 100 square meters of private plots, in fact, these regulations are completely ignored. The main source of income for Koreans living in small towns and rural areas is farming in illegal private farmland. At the beginning, people only dared to cultivate land on steep slopes. Even under bad conditions, farmers' enthusiasm can still make the yield per mu reach twice that of public land. The local government is not ignorant of these illegal phenomena, but they don't stop them at all. The people have no food, and the officials still have no food. Let's open up wasteland, plant some land and give it to officials X. And officials turn a blind eye, and everyone is better off.
Therefore, in this case, private enterprises still exist, but everyone acquiesced in its existence and did not say it.