“Wrapping paper from one of the department stores near the Koryo Hotel in the mid 1990’s. To keep the wrapping paper in one piece I had to buy something big so that they would not cut the paper in smaller bits, and then persuaded them that I would wrap it up when I got back to my hotel. It features a few of the iconic buildings of Pyongyang from the railway station, ice rink, the People’s Army Circus, the Grand People’s Study House, and the Mansudae Art Theatre, with Cyrillic and Latin text in addition to the Korean to create that feeling of quality (i.e. the otherness of being ‘international’).”
— Curated and contributed by Nick Bonner, Founder of Koryo Tours and author of ‘Made in North Korea: Graphics From Everyday Life in the DPRK’