Thursday, January 28, 2010
Koryolink commercial
We came across this interesting video clip of North Korean commercial on Koryolink, North Korea's 3G cellular network that was launched as a joint venture between the Egyptian telecommunications giant Orascom and the North Korean central government in December 2008, today. North Korean Economy Watch has written about Koryolink a while ago, but thought the commercial was interesting to share.
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I'd be interested in knowing if there was a version with English subtitles out there anywhere.
ReplyDeletefirst of all, this is my first time on the site and it's AWESOME. i really am fascinated. thank you for all the hard work gathering this info to share.
ReplyDeleteanywho, one thing i noticed on the koryolink commercial were that the agents were using MS Windows.
according to microsoft's site, windows can't be exported to NK:
http://www.microsoft.com/exporting/faq.htm
James,
ReplyDeleteMicrosoft may not have exported its software to North Korea at all (and they probably have not); however, it doesn't stop the Chinese businesses from selling the software to North Korea. We've found the North Korean naval unit using Dell monitors in their training facilities earlier (see our post at: http://asiamatters.blogspot.com/2009/08/dell-in-north-korea.html). Like Microsoft, Dell doesn't sell to North Korea, but it does sell to China...as does Microsoft.
I remember seeing some pictures of North Korean children using computers with Windows XP on them, too.
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