The article is from WeChat public account: Dr. X (ID: doctorx666) , author: Puppy, from the title figure: Figure worm
Now, if you are a Korean boy and want to marry a beloved girl, the thing you should take out is not a diamond ring, but a smart phone.
According to locals in North Korea, if a young girl is not yet married but has a smartphone, then there is a high probability that she will fall into a honey relationship and be about to get married.
North Korean female traffic police who are secretly calling
It’s not just young couples. At the airport, you can see a lot of North Korean businessmen Jia Guiying holding an Iphone and spreading it on a chair.
These scenes together form the current mobile phone mania in North Korea.
Mobile Mania
Smartphones have a diamond ring-like status in the hearts of North Korean girls, and it’s not just because it’s easy to talk about love.
In North Korea, owning a smartphone is a symbol of social status.
Visitors to North Korea are in a state of loss of contact. The most convenient way to contact their family is to make an international call at the hotel. The map is for the Pyongyang Xishan Hotel. International Phone Billing Photo By Puppy
Why?
Because the North Korean mobile phone network first appeared in 2002, it was only available in big cities like Pyongyang and Nampo at that time.
A mobile phone was extremely expensive at that time, ranging from $ 200 to $ 500. This is equivalent to a year of income for ordinary North Koreans. Therefore, it is a gadget that only high-end people can afford, just like China ’s Big Brother and Santana, it is a symbol of prestige.
In 2002, a mobile phone monopoly in PyongyangShop
Second, Smartphones are now an artifact for North Koreans to change their quality of life.
Since the “March of Misery”, the black market in North Korea has flourished. People are trading here to get necessities, and mobile phones have become a necessity to speed up business efficiency.
The so-called “March of Misery” refers to a large-scale famine disaster in North Korea from 1994 to 1998. Later, the term became a euphemism for famine in North Korea.
A woman named Cui from North Korea said that in 2013, she sold two pigs and smuggled family money to buy a smartphone worth 1,300 yuan in order to make money.
Since then, she has used this phone to check exchange rates, prices, and sell Chinese clothes, food, and daily necessities to buyers.
On April 16, 2017, residents of Pyongyang photographed flower beds celebrating the 105th birthday of Kim Il Sung with a smartphone
Recruiting Daily NK, since last year, the desire of Koreans to get mobile phones has become stronger,There has been a phenomenon of selling a house and buying a mobile phone.
It is reported that North Koreans now think that they need to buy a mobile phone even if they are hungry. Everyone who has no food or smokes must have a mobile phone. Because the economic benefits brought by mobile phones are much higher than the wages at work.
The SIM card of Koryolink, the only mobile phone operator in North Korea, has news that in 2012, 1.7 million network users brought this company $ 145 million Income
In North Korea, which has an annual income of $ 500 per capita, (2015) , the price is terrible-100 minutes of talk, $ 13. The data network service fee for foreign tourists is 150 Euros / 2G, 400 Euros / 10G.
But even so, it will not stop more and more North Koreans from craving smartphones and the explosive growth of mobile phone users.
According to data, within 10 years, the number of mobile phone owners in North Korea has increased from 70,000 to 6 million, and the proportion has also increased from 0.28% to 23.48%.
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Icon and UI design of the internal mobile phone interface, you can hardly find the unique design style of North Korea.
If it wasn’t for the quotation, you would even forget that this is a high-end mobile phone forged with the main idea.
However, whether it is a $ 700 high-end machine or a $ 200 basic smartphone, there is a feature that immediately makes people realize that this is a DPRK specialty.
That is to say, no matter what level of mobile phone, there will be a variety of mobile phone cases and mobile phone films, which is very intimate.
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This unique style has also created a wave of high-end street fashion in monochrome North Korea.
People show their aesthetic taste through mobile phone cases. Among them, leather phone cases with folding and hanging chains are most admired and have become fashion synonyms.
North Korean women held up their mobile phone shooting scene at the food held in Pyongyang, and the mobile phone case revealed their fashion story.
If you want to think that this is all about North Korean mobile phones, then you are totally wrong. North Korea’s powerful people do not like to use these domestic products.
Did you watch the new Korean drama “The Fall of Love” recently?
I read it, and one of the details is particularly interesting, that is, a North Korean official with a double badge is holding an iPhone to call South Korea.
The domestic price of the Korean double seal is more than 400 yuan. The specific price depends on the type of subdivision.
In the real world, the analysis company Recorded Future has analyzed third-party data sources and found that the most popular mobile device in North Korea that can access the Internet in the world is the iPhone.
Many photos of Kim Jong-un and Apple devices in the same frame confirm this, and leaders love Apple.
Kim Jong Un with iMAC
Like the logic of a Chinese official car, Koreans who respect their leaders quickly began chasing the iPhone and desperately wanted to own it. In their opinion, having it would be close to their ideal life.
Because this type of mobile phone cannot be sold in North Korea, it has become the most demanding mobile phone on the black market, and the price is much higher than the original price.
For the convenience of use, the powerful people often find someone to modify the Logo on the back of the phone to prevent being reprimanded.
Changes in North Korea
In everyone ’s impression, now that I have bought a mobile phone, I always restore the backup, and then I log in to the APP store to download some new things and start playing with joy.
In North Korea, people definitely have to go to the store after they buy a cell phone. But different from us, in North Korea where Wifi is not popular, APP stores are not online but physical.
APP Store in Pyongyang
In the store, the app is posted on the wall like a travel poster. Depending on the size and popularity of each app, the price fluctuates between 5000 to 10,000 yuan, and the actual purchasing power is between 4 yuan to 8 yuan.
APP purchase page
Choose a good oneAfter that, just tell the staff and let them make it for you.
The whole process is similar to how we rented a VCD when we were young.
North Korean apps cannot be installed on devices outside North Korea because of different system versions.
Seeing this, you definitely care about what North Korea ’s explosive apps are.
According to North Korean officials, in the field of mobile games, the people’s favorite works are war-themed works, including patriotic masterpieces such as “Sniper American Soldier” and “Armor Battle”.
“Battle of the Armor” tells the story of North Korea’s T34 / 85 breaking the Yankees
However, the information on the Internet shows that behind these patriotic grand narrative themes, the desire of the Korean people for a new life is more reflected.
Chunxiang 1.0 is similar to Meitu Xiuxiu, and is described as a tool for trying out makeup in the description. However, in reality, it was played by a Korean girl into a beautiful picture repair. I opened it with P photos and looked at the beautiful picture to look forward to a beautiful new world.
“더욱 아름다워 진 당신 의 모습 을 보게 될것 입니다.-You will see a more beautiful yourself.”
The language learning app attracts the most attention of all people. Among them, Chinese teaching and English teaching Ap p are the most loved. This is perhaps the best portrayal of the Korean people for the desire to integrate into international trade to make a lot of money.
Chinese APP store page
The popularity of mobile phones has changed more than North Koreans. Scan code payment and e-commerce industries are constantly developing. This wave of mobile phones is beginning to change their thinking.
With the popularization of mobile phones, young people in North Korea began to change their concept of spouse, and they began to yearn for free love. As a result, there have been many matchmakers who introduced their objects with their mobile phones and used the transfer of mobile phone talk time to pay the agency fees.
This is the original exploration + century Jiayuan.
In the first few years of this change, Pyongyang people bought the surrounding houses at high prices in order to scan the ambassador ’s Wifi.
But on November 8 last year, CCTV broadcast a picture of using the “Arirang 171” smartphone to connect to the “future” service at the “IT Success Exhibition”. This is the first time North Korea has mentioned outdoor Wifi service, which is considered by the outside world as a signal that Wifi will be used on a large scale.
These changes are like the glimmer of light in the middle of the night and the sparks of Ebara, which is guiding people to another possibility.
Whether politics is right or wrong is not in the discussion: because compared with these grand narratives, I care more about people, after all, talent is the measure of everything.
When students on the streets of Pyongyang see foreigners take pictures Photo By Puppy
The article is from WeChat public account: Dr. X (ID: doctorx666) , author: Puppy