다음은 조선닷컴 http://www.chosun.com  에 있는 기사임. 이 기사뒤에 뉴욕타임스 기사도 올릴 것임. ----------대한민국의 하늘아래서 김정일 사진을 걸어 놓고 술 장사를 한다고               하는데  정상적인 일인가?  ----------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NYT "북한，남한 깊숙한 곳에 시장을 찾다" 대전의 ‘평양 모란바’, 북한 미녀 내세워 성업 중    뉴욕타임스는 25일자 인터넷판 톱기사 ‘북한, 남한 깊숙한 곳에 시장을 찾다(In Deep South, North Koreans Find a Hot Market)’에서 한국 내의 북한풍 유행을 소개했다. 기사에 따르면 지난 19일 밤 대전 중심가에 위치한 ‘평양 모란바’의 대형 비디오 화면에는 ‘천년에 한 번 나타난 지도자 김정일’이란 글씨가 나타났다. 이곳에서 일하는 북한 출신의 여자 종업원들은 밝은색의 구식 한복을 입었고, 1980년대 북한 유행가 ‘휘파람’을 어설프게 불렀다. 기사는 “북한 음료수와 맥주는 뚜껑도 제대로 닫혀 있지 않았고 식당 서비스는 엉망이었다”면서 “하지만 음정도 안맞는 노래가 끝날 무렵 손님 한 명이 앵콜을 외쳤다”고 전했다. 기사에 따르면 지난 2월 문을 연 이 북한풍 주점 입구에는 ‘북한에서 온 아름다운 소녀들’이라는 광고 문구가 걸려있다. 내부 인테리어 역시 북한의 풍경 포스터 등으로 꾸몄고, 계산대 뒤에는 김정일 국방위원장과 김대중 전 대통령의 사진이 나란히 걸려 있었다고 기사는 전했다. 이에 대해 기사는 “1990년대까지만 해도 한국의 초등학생들은 반공 포스터 대회에서 북한 사람들을 기괴한 모습으로 그렸지만 이른바 햇볕정책 이후 인간의 모습으로 바뀌었다”며 “한국에서 ‘공동경비구역 JSA’라는 영화가 인기를 얻기도 했다”고 설명했다. 기사는 “이런 흐름 속에서 탈북자들과 한국인들은 북한을 주제로 한 식당을 열기 시작했고, 인터넷 사이트 ‘NKMall(www.nkmail.com)’를 통해 북한산 상품이나 예술 작품이 판매되고 있다”고 전했다. 기사에 따르면 전국 70곳에 매장을 둔 북한 제품 전문 쇼핑몰 ‘NKMall’에는 뚜껑이 부실해 김 빠진 음료수들이 즐비하다. 하지만 오히려 질이 나쁘다는 게 ‘북한산’의 매력으로 떠오르면서 남한 손님들을 끌고 있다고 전했다. 이와 관련, 탈북자 정수반 씨는 “몇년 전만 해도 웨이터에게 북한 군복을 입힌 식당들은 망하는 분위기였지만 요즘엔 북한풍이 유행”이라며 “조만간 서울에 ‘옥루옥’이란 북한 음식점을 열 계획”이라고 말했다고 기사는 전했다. 북한 음식점 ‘날래 날래’를 운영하는 한국인 홍창료씨도 올해 안에 세번째 체인점을 열 계획을 갖고 있다고 한다. 홍씨는 “북한산 버섯과 주류, 해산물 등을 이용한 북한 지명을 딴 메뉴가 인기”라며 “하지만 2∼3년 전이었으면 공산주의자라고 손가락질을 받았을 것”이라고 말했다고 기사는 전했다. 한편 기사는 이런 북한풍에 대한 한국인들의 반응은 세대별로 나뉜다고 지적했다. 기성세대들은 북한을 아직도 적으로 인식하고 굶주린 북한 어린이들을 떠올리는 반면, 젊은 세대들은 평양의 깔끔한 거리를 보고싶어한다는 설명이다. 정수반씨는 “두 계층 모두 쉽게 변하지 않기 때문에 새로 개업할 식당은 북한을 객관적인 이미지로 나타낼 계획”이라고 말했다. 한편 그는 “북한에 살 때는 대동강 맥주가 있는 줄 몰랐는데 남한에서 북한 음식점 개업을 준비하면서 알게됐다”며 “참 재미있는 나라에 살고 있다”고 말했다. 김재은 기자 2ruth@chosun.com 입력 : 2006.05.25 19:17 20' / 수정 : 2006.05.26 10:32 50' --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 다음은 뉴욕타임스   http://www.nytimes.com   에 있는 기사임. May 25, 2006 In Deep South, North Koreans Find a Hot Market By NORIMITSU ONISHI TAEJON, South Korea — At the Pyongyang Moran Bar on a recent Friday evening, a large video screen showed uplifting images of rocky mountains and an open blue sky. A slogan appeared at the bottom: "Kim Jong Il, a man who comes along only once in a thousand years." The North Korean waitresses wore traditional dresses in the bright colors that were fashionable in the South some years back. The singer's interpretation of "Whistle," a North Korean standard of the 1980's, was shaky and off-key. Service was bad and included at least one mild threat. Drinks were spilled, beer bottles left unopened and unpoured. But the South Korean customers could not get enough of the Pyongyang Moran Bar. "Encore!" cried Bae Seong Wan, 44, at the end of "Whistle." The Pyongyang Moran Bar is located, not north of the demilitarized zone, but here in downtown Taejon, a city in the South Korean heartland. The 120-seat bar opened in February, complete with inferior North Korean beverages, North Korean landscape posters, North Korean songs, a photo of Mr. Kim above the bar counter with his South Korean counterpart and, most important, North Korean waitresses — or, as a sign outside announced, "beautiful girls from North Korea!" Until the 1990's, South Korean schoolchildren were awarded prizes for drawing posters depicting diabolical North Koreans. Then the South's so-called sunshine policy of engagement transformed North Koreans into real human beings in the minds of South Koreans and in popular movies like "Joint Security Area." Now, after more than half a decade of rapprochement, the North is all the rage, in a retro-kitschy fashion, and North Koreans are seen not as threatening aggressors but as country bumpkin cousins, needing an introduction to big-city life. North Korean defectors and South Koreans alike are opening North Korean-themed restaurants, selling North Korean goods and auctioning off North Korean artwork on www.NKMall.com. Half a century of division has turned the South into the world's most wired society, as its consumer products and pop culture increasingly shape the tastes of youth across Asia. North Korea, meanwhile, has remained frozen in time, a repository — at least to someone with a sharp nose for marketing — of an unchanged Korea. "North Korea is retro," said Jong Su Ban, 42, a North Korean defector who plans to open a North Korean restaurant, Ok Ru Ok, in Seoul soon. "It reminds South Koreans of the 1950's and 1960's, before South Korea industrialized. They see handmade crafts that are not sophisticated, and they think, 'It's like us before we developed.' " The timing was right, Mr. Jong said, pointing out that only a few years ago a restaurant in Seoul with a waiter dressed as a North Korean soldier went belly up fast. "He made people uncomfortable," he said. At a company called NK Food, Hong Chang Ryo, 45, a South Korean who opened two North Korean restaurants in Seoul this year and is planning to open a third here, agreed. "Even two or three years ago," he said, "we couldn't have done this. We would have been fingered as commies." Mr. Hong's first restaurant, Nalrae, Nalrae — or fast, fast in the North Korean dialect — "invites you to a different taste" with more than 27 dishes named after places in the North. Shelves stocked with mushrooms, alcoholic beverages, seaweed — "straight from Pyongyang" — are the main attractions in the restaurant, which is painted organic green. A menu promises "nonpolluted, well-being dishes using natural resources from North Korea." "It feels rural, natural, unpolluted," said one first-time customer, Lee Sae Mie, 23, a university student. While about 40 percent of the dishes' ingredients come from the North, Mr. Hong said, the flavors had to be adjusted, considerably, to appeal to South Korean palates. "We had to rack our brains," Mr. Hong said. "We all know they just eat cornmeal over there. Well, we just don't know what they're eating over there. So we mixed and matched. Dishes may look North Korean but actually taste South Korean." Increasingly, though, people are parting with South Korean won to buy goods from www.NKMall.com, which Park Young Bok, a South Korean, set up in 2003. The site sells mostly food products, which shoppers can also buy at 70 stores nationwide. Last September, Mr. Park added an auction for North Korean paintings, which have been selling briskly, reaching $115,000 in sales in April. With South Korean officials still banning artwork with political content, most of the imports are of landscapes — though, oddly, a tapestry of the Virgin Mary was auctioned off recently for $80. At his warehouse just outside Seoul, Mr. Park showed off some of the 30 North Korean alcoholic beverages he sells — some of them with labels slapped crookedly on the bottles, others with the contents partly evaporated because of poor bottling. But to hear some of the patrons at the Pyongyang Moran Bar here tell it, leaking bottles, even bad service, are part of the North Korean appeal. "I don't know how to open this," said one waitress struggling with a bottle of Budweiser. The waitress — who had worked at the bar for only two days and who, like many North Koreans, had never opened a bottle before — tried to get the top off, then handed the bottle to the customer, who opened it himself. Another customer, Kim Chung Sig, 39, said, "I don't expect the service to be good here." Choi Jung Hee, 37, the manager, said she had trouble training her North Korean staff of five waitresses. "At least, they should say, 'Hello!' properly when customers come in, but they don't," she said. "Things are very different in North Korea," she said. "Over there, waitresses and salespeople are kings because they have access to goods. But here you have to treat customers like kings. You have to bow to them and be polite even if they are rude." Reaction to the bar is decidedly split, an indication, said Mr. Jong, the North Korean who is opening up Ok Ru Ok, that South Koreans see in North Korea what they want to see. Older South Koreans, who still look upon the North as an enemy, want to see images of starving North Korean babies, Mr. Jong said. Younger people, who often want friendly relations with the North, want to see the clean streets of Pyongyang. "Both sides want to satisfy their beliefs," Mr. Jong said, standing inside his soon-to-open restaurant. "That's why I'll put up only neutral images of North Korea in my new restaurant." Everything has fallen into place now for Mr. Jong, who came to South Korea in 2000 and earned a living writing pornography before plunging into food. He has even secured a supply of the North's coveted Taedong River beer. "When I lived in North Korea," Mr. Jong said, "I never knew that this beer even existed. I'll have North Korean beer for the first time in South Korea. I lived in a very funny country."