No traffic lights in North Korea?

Today, the Korean wave phenomenon went global as the world become fascinated with their Kpop music, technology in smartphones, Smart TV, automobiles, electronic products or even their fashion sense. But what about North Korea ?  do they have such technologies?

North Korea is located in the northern half of the Korean Peninsular and after the Korean War in 1950, the peninsular split into two, which we know today as North Korea & South Korea. North Korea is an isolated country that separates them with the rest of the world. Most of their technologies are more into military such as missile and weaponry. Until today, the USA and South Korea are still afraid of North Korea strength in military technology.

Source : Google Image

One thing I like to share is that in North Korea , there are no traffic lights to control the stop and go flow of an intersection. They replacing the traffic like with human, known by nickname called traffic girls. These traffic girls dressed up in a well-suit uniform and will be located in the middle of intersections in a small circle or on a platform with an umbrella for shades. The traffic girls will control the traffic with their robotic moves and they only allowed turning counter-clockwise, directing traffic with forceful, halting movement.

Source: Google Image

I was so amazed watching the below video, you can see that the traffic girls are so focused even when changing their shift.

 

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Traffic lights are common thing that we always seen when we are on the road, but that not applied in North Korea . Probably North Korea do not believe in the traffic lights technology. Instead, they prefer human by putting them in the middle of the intersection, or maybe they don’t want to be depending on technology.


Is it possible to have traffic girls here in Malaysia ? Hrmmm… perhaps not! the existence of traffic girls     will create more traffic jams  on our most major roads, as Malaysian especially the men will stop by or slowing down their vehicle just to  check out these traffic girls.  We still need to stick with traffic lights! :)