Kijong-dong
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Kijŏng-dong, Kijŏngdong, Kijŏng tong or Kaepoong is a Potemkin village in P'yŏnghwa-ri, Panmun-guyok, Kaesong Special City, North Korea. It is situated in the North's half of the Korean Demilitarized
The Panmunjom flagpole, flying the flag of North Korea.
The Panmunjom flagpole, the world's seventh-tallest, 160 m (525 ft) in height, flying a 270 kg (595 lb) flag of North Korea over Kijŏng-dong, near Panmunjom.
View of Kijŏng-dong
Potemkin village
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A Potemkin village is a construction, literal or figurative, that provides a façade to a situation, to make people believe that the situation is better than it actually is.
Kijong-dong
…Kijŏng-dong, Kijŏngdong, Kijŏng tong or Kaepoong is a Potemkin village in P'yŏnghwa-ri (Korean: 평화리; Hanja: 平和里), Panmun-guyok, Kaesong Special City, North Korea. It is situated in the North's half of the Korean Demilitarized…
Because of a newly painted façade, the whole building looks as if it has been reconstructed, although the rest is still in decay (castle brewery in Kolín, Czech Republic).
Grigory Potemkin, namesake of the concept
False front commercial buildings in Greenhorn, Oregon, 1913