Stunning Pictures of North Korea Industries in 1972 – Design You Trust — Design Daily Since 2007

Stunning Pictures of North Korea Industries in 1972

Medical facility. June 1972, Pyongyang, North Korea.
1

In June 1972, The Toronto Star’s veteran Asia correspondent Mark Gayn was one of four reporters allowed into North Korea. The trip yielded four lengthy feature stories, published in The Star in July 1972, where Gayn detailed the country’s political landscape, then dominated by Kim Il Sung, and its people.

h/t: vintag.es

Automated shoe factory. June 1972, Pyongyang, North Korea.
2

These photos are among the many Gayn took of his journeys through the country. These particular photos spotlight the various industries of North Korea. At the time, Gayn writes, his North Korean hosts, the Union of Journalists, were trying to convey that North Korea “is a sort of Asian Belgium, industrialized, sophisticated, well-off,” and that Kim Il Sung had abolished manual labor in the countryside.

Textile mill. June 1972, Pyongyang, North Korea.
3

Gayn, however, saw things differently. “If this is a modern industrial state,” he writes, “its way of life and its daily idiom are unfamiliar to a man from the West. It is also clear that Kim’s North Korea is a welfare state to make most Communist states seem bourgeois.”

“Modern” industrial printing factory. June 1972, North Korea.
4

Large kindergarten for taking care of women laborers’ and office workers’ children. June 1972, North Korea.
5

Hungsan military supplies co-operative farm dispensary. June 1972, Hamhung, North Korea.
6

Medical equipment factory. June 1972, North Korea.
7

Pharmaceutical factory. June 1972, North Korea.
8

Clerks selling canned strawberry, watermelon, vegetables, bottles of juice, etc. June 1972, Pyongyang, North Korea.
9

Trains made by Kim Jong Tae Electric Locomotive Factory. June 1972, Pyongyang, North Korea.
10

Fertilizer plant. June 1972, Hamhung, North Korea.
11

Fertilizer plant. June 1972, Hamhung, North Korea.
12

If you want more awesome content, subscribe to 'Design You Trust Facebook page. You won't be disappointed.

More Inspiring Stories

Vibrant Street Photography By Jimmy Chan
Humpback Whale Close Encounter Off California Coast
Italian Photographer Expresses His Inner World Through Emotional Photographs
Beautiful Vintage Photos Show How Cool Moms Were in the 1960s
The Remarkable Alaska's Indigenous People Snow Goggles
Beautiful Intimate Portrait Photos Of Young People Of San Diego In The Early 1970s
"The Call Of The Void": Polish Photographer Lukasz Palka Captures Streets Of Tokyo
Electric Dreams: Amazing Portraits Of ’80s Geeks
When Big Hair Roamed The Earth: The Hairstyle That Defined The 1960s
Flight Of Fantasy: Incredible Art Photography By Ravshaniya Azulye
16 Bizarre Inventions From The Victorian Era
2016 Audubon Photography Awards
American Eagle Underwear Had An Increase In Sales. These Unretouched Pics Are Maybe A Clue Why
The Qajar Series, Inspired by The Studio Portraiture First Introduced to Iran in The Late 19th Century
Mugshots Of Female Nazi Concentration Camp Guards While Awaiting Trial In 1945
"Nature Under Threat": The winning Images of The Cop26 Photographic Competition 2021
Photographer Documents Stay-At-Home Dads And Their Kids In Sweden
Red, White, Blue and Awkward: 20 Hilarious 4th of July Family Photos From the 1980s and 1990s
Inside the 1950s BMW Isetta Brochure
"I Want To Take You Higher": Girls Of Woodstock, The Best Beauty And Style Moments From Summer 1969
Rare Photographs Of The Beatles On Holiday On Tenerife Island Before They Became World Famous
Winning Photographs Of The Urban Photo Awards 2021
Playful Seniors Wear Organic Materials To Personify Nature
Vintage Postcards Capture Shopping Malls of the U.S. in the Mid-20th Century