Chinese tourists appall North Koreans by throwing candy at their kids...

Chinese tourists’ boorish behavior has raised hackles from Egypt to Washington, D.C. in recent months as growing incomes send millions of Chinese overseas, often for their first-ever trip outside the country.

Now it is North Korea’s turn.

Mainland Chinese tourists throw sweets at North Korean children ”like they’re feeding ducks,” Simon Cockerell of Koryo Tours told the South China Morning Post . Not surprisingly, “North Koreans think that’s undignified and offensive.” North Koreans also complain that Chinese visitors are too loud, and pick up strangers’ children for photographs.

Making matters worse, North Koreans “always thought of themselves as richer than the Chinese or having a purer brand of socialism, and they are now very jealous of China’s wealth,” Barbara Demick, Beijing bureau chief of The Los Angeles Times told the SCMP. Chinese might be even less popular than Americans in North Korea, she added. Full story...

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