[url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/22/manbang-and-chill-north-korea-netflix-video-on-demand?CMP=fb_gu]Source[/url]
[quote]Netflix-style video on demand has come to North Korea, allowing viewers to replay documentaries about their leaders and learn Russian and English, state broadcaster the Korea Central Television reported.
If the claims are true, the set-top box named Manbang would be a significant development in domestic North Korean television technology, given the limited availability of internet in the country.
In 2015 the World Bank estimated that there were no secure internet servers per million people in the DPRK – compared with a world average of 209 and 2,320 in South Korea.
The Manbang is said to allow viewers to watch five different TV channels in real-time, all featuring state-sanctioned news and educational programmes, and find information about the activities of Kim Jong-un and Juche ideology. Users can also read articles from the official newspaper Rodong Sinmun and the Korean Central News Agency.[/quote]
North Korea trying to be hip.
Manbang, Taepodong, North Korean products have really gay names
[quote]allowing viewers to replay documentaries about their leaders[/quote]
[quote][b]Manbang[/b][/quote]
"documentaries"
[QUOTE=Dr.C;50931530]Manbang, [b]Taepodong[/b], North Korean products have really gay names[/QUOTE]
oh hello
Also don't forgot the nodong missiles too.
'Manbang' sounds like something an asian man who can barely speak English would come up with as the name for a porn site
Wanna manbang and chill?
[QUOTE=meek;50931745]Wanna manbang and chill?[/QUOTE]
ew, that sounds gay
[sp]bet you thought this was gonna say yes didn't ya[/sp]
I'm wondering that considering it's the Korean language, "Manbang" is pronounced "Mon-bong" (with the b sounding weaker, not like "bong" as in meth) instead of actually "Man-bang"
i wonder if there's anything you can enjoy in north korea without it being involved with "glorious leader"
[QUOTE=PsycheClops;50931873]I'm wondering that considering it's the Korean language, "Manbang" is pronounced "Mon-bong" (with the b sounding weaker, not like "bong" as in meth) instead of actually "Man-bang"[/QUOTE]
It would be pronounced something like Maan-bhang
I wonder why they would allow them to learn English?
i'm sure in north korean it means "glorious peoples cable cooperative and learning network" but damn thats funny
[QUOTE=Xubs;50932160]it purportedly means 'Everywhere' according to NK News[/QUOTE]
should have called it moonbang because ban ki moon
I could also use some manbang
[QUOTE=PsycheClops;50931873]I'm wondering that considering it's the Korean language, "Manbang" is pronounced "Mon-bong" (with the b sounding weaker, [b]not like "bong" as in meth[/b]) instead of actually "Man-bang"[/QUOTE]
took me a bit to get what you meant here. I think weed when i hear bong long before i think meth
I don't get the point as practically nobody has internet in NK, let alone electricity.
As a Korean, Manbang literally means "thousand room".
Learn Russian* and English*
*State approved words and phrases only.
[QUOTE=Tools;50933247]I don't get the point as practically nobody has internet in NK, let alone electricity.[/QUOTE]
This isn't true. The more elite citizens in pyongyang, tourists in hotels, and military officials all have access to the internet and electricity. They also have bootleg smartphones and bootleg tv's. Everyone in the countryside is poor and dying, but people in the main city are living it up and enjoying shit like this because of their social status.
[QUOTE=EdvardSchnitz;50935557]This isn't true. The more elite citizens in pyongyang, tourists in hotels, and military officials all have access to the internet and electricity. They also have bootleg smartphones and bootleg tv's. Everyone in the countryside is poor and dying, but people in the main city are living it up and enjoying shit like this because of their social status.[/QUOTE]Well [I]your[/I] post is true. I think to put it in a video game equivalency (so more people can understand) Pyongyang is inhabited by the Enclave and the rest of the country is full of shit like Megaton and Bigtown. ... Except there's no supermutants or vicious wildlife, and there isn't a Brotherhood of Steel to stand up to Pyongyang's tyranny. Other than all that it's exactly like Fallout 3 only with less radiation and more stunted growth due to years of everyone starving.
It's even stuck in the 50's! Like a time capsule to a different, shittier, time that we can occasionally catch a glimpse of when there's a slow news day.
[editline]23rd August 2016[/editline]
I joke but seriously, it's like they took every fucked up Stalinist thing they could and made a country out of it. After they were done with that they went further back and pulled a page out of the finest shit-talking manuals of the Bolsheviks and said, "yes, this is how we shall conduct foreign affairs."
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;50932391]took me a bit to get what you meant here. I think weed when i hear bong long before i think meth[/QUOTE]
can you even smoke meth out of a traditional bong
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