Some sets are especially in demand, such as the DPRK-China friendship series which show various generations of Chinese leaders, including Mao Zedong, Jiang Zemin, and Hu Jintao, shaking hands with DPRK leaders.
A couple from Israel had just bought a set of stamps. Atalia, the wife, said they loved collecting stamps from around the world and were quite interested in stamps showing various landscapes from the DPRK.
Lee Chang Ge, a 42-year-old man from the Republic of Korea (ROK), bought an ethnic Korean gown in the pavilion.
The man, speaking in his native Korean, asked a female staff member from the DPRK about the price of a red gown, and the man then seemed to even have bargained with the woman. The man finally chose a bluish gown, at the less expensive price of 1,800 yuan (about 265 U.S. dollars) and struck the deal with the smiling DPRK saleswoman, who was dressed in a golden-colored gown.
The man, in broken English, said he would bring this gown back home as a gift for his wife .
He said the gown would cost about 5,000 yuan in the ROK, and he thought this gown was a good value for what he spent.
He told Xinhua there were no barriers in communicating with the DPRK staff. He said people from the DPRK and the ROK were of the same blood, and he hoped there might come a day when reunification of the Korean Peninsula would become a reality.
Special Report: World Expo 2010
