Globalization, liberalization and borderless transfer of capital and technology affect urban development patterns especially of those post-socialist cities. This paper attempts to shed lights on how introduction of market economy has changed urban forms and structure of the cities in Eastern Europe and East Germany since the collapse of the Soviet Union to find some implications for North Korea. It was found that the cities in these region have gone through unique transformational process rather than following evolving patterns of most Western European, American and even South Korean cities. Unlike in South Korea for instance, in East Germany city boundary has expanded not by the population influx from local area but rather by the people moving from city center to suburban areas to find new homes. While in the U. S. suburbanization process is normally initiated by rich people who want to have spacious homes and green amenity, this urban exodus is not limited to high class of people in these post-socialist cities. Some of the most prevalent phenomena of the changing urban development patterns in post-socialist cities are the development of central business districts accommodating office space demand by multi-national firms, and the emergence of large shopping malls and residential complex funded by foreign capital in city fringe areas.