Zoe Chase
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252 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 19 Aug
Zoe Chase’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So she bought the matches and then she saw these peaches.
Jesse says her mom loved peaches, and her mom was one.
Those people who was always doing things for other people, never really did anything for herself.
So Jessie took her leftover money and she bought her mom a peach.
I wanted to make a lot of money to make her happy.
Jessie started selling berries and other things at the market regularly, saving up her earnings, looking for more opportunities.
And then one day she had this flash of brilliance.
She noticed that the men in her village would always gather for a drink at the end of the day, and they were drinking this alcohol that they were making themselves out of the potatoes they were farming.
And Jessie thought she could get them better stuff.
alcohol was really, really popular because it was very pure, there was no hangover, and so they said it was a huge difference.
Jessie had more orders than she could fill.
A small business was born.
There is a special name for North Korea's entrepreneurial types like Jesse.
They're called the Donju.
It means lords of money.
Thirty years ago, there is no way the Donju would have existed in North Korea.
It's a socialist country.
People are supposed to work for the good of the whole and get everything they need from the government.
The idea of making a profit or growing a business or even owning something was blasphemy.
The North Korean regime, in fact, had a special term for it.
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