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North Korea Unveils Netflix-Like Streaming Service Called 'Manbang' (bbc.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the manbang-and-chill dept.

North Korea has unveiled a set-top box that offers video-on demand services similar to Netflix. The service is called Manbang, which translates to "everywhere" in Korean, and allows consumers to stream documentaries about Kim Jong Un and other "educational" programs, as well as five live TV channels. "If a viewer wants to watch, for instance, an animal movie and sends a request to the equipment, it will show the relevant video to the viewer [...] this is two-way communications," according to NK News. It reportedly works by plugging the set-top box into an internet modem, then connecting an HDMI cable from the cable box to the TV. A very small number of North Koreans will actually be able to use the device as "only a few thousand [...] have access to the state-sanctioned internet, in a nation of 25 million people," reports New York Daily News.

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  1. The name says it all... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Enough said.

    1. Re:The name says it all... by sittingnut · · Score: 2, Insightful

      "The name says it all... Enough said."

      more like enough said about quality of /. comments when most of the comments here are about a foreign word mispronounced and mistranslated.

    2. Re:The name says it all... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Different AC here. Yeah, but you knew it was cumming.

    3. Re:The name says it all... by Dahamma · · Score: 5, Funny

      I would have given you that if it was an isolated incident. But... Taepodong? For a missile? Kim Jong-un knows Western culture, I think he's punking us.

      Manbang and chill, dude.

    4. Re:The name says it all... by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well, it depends on the size of the Taepodong you use.

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    5. Re:The name says it all... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      I wonder if it will feature The Adventures of Kim Jong Un

    6. Re:The name says it all... by ausekilis · · Score: 1

      Even better.... pornography is illegal in DPRK.

    7. Re:The name says it all... by Samantha+Wright · · Score: 2

      It's not mispronounced; the first screenshot in this article shows that the menu item (third from the left) is in fact spelled "manbang" and pronounced (using X-SAMPA) as /man.baN/, equivalent to how a conservative English accent would say "man bang" (with open front unrounded A) Here's the Wikipedia article on Korean phonology if you want to analyse it yourself.

      ...Is it possible you're salty because someone forgot to invite you to participate in Manbang?

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    8. Re:The name says it all... by jofas · · Score: 2

      Anything is a Taepodong if you're brave enough...

    9. Re:The name says it all... by sittingnut · · Score: 1

      more like enough said about quality of /. comments when most of the comments here are about a foreign word mispronounced and mistranslated.

      This, from someone who chose the username "sittingnut"? Come on, dude.

      thanks for reinforcing my point.

    10. Re:The name says it all... by sittingnut · · Score: 1

      a conservative English accent ... .. you're salty because someone forgot to invite you to participate in Manbang?

      lol.
      need i say more?
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      anyway thanks for unwittingly supporting my original point; "more like enough said about quality of /. comments when most of the comments here are about a foreign word mispronounced and mistranslated."

    11. Re:The name says it all... by doccus · · Score: 1

      ROFLOL!!!

    12. Re:The name says it all... by doccus · · Score: 1

      All loyal party members who can actually afford computer now manbang with each other!

    13. Re:The name says it all... by Dahamma · · Score: 1

      Not sure about that, but it's definitely a dong.

  2. manbanging by iggymanz · · Score: 5, Funny

    So in a manbanging film would kim jung un be a bear, or a fat twink or what?

    1. Re:manbanging by wierd_w · · Score: 4, Informative

      What part of 2-way was hard to understand!?

      Kimmy kims is gonna get center stage, both ways!
      While his fangirls cheer!

    2. Re:manbanging by Brett+Buck · · Score: 1

      I think what really sends them is the jiggling of his chins!

    3. Re:manbanging by wickerprints · · Score: 5, Funny

      Too old (and fat) to be a twink, too smooth (I presume, judging from lack of facial hair) to be a bear.

      In gay male social circles, the most fitting animal subculture would be "manatee," but that's a horrible thing to say about actual manatees.

    4. Re:manbanging by iggymanz · · Score: 1

      not to mention the jiggling and jumping cheeks. no not the pair on his face

    5. Re:manbanging by hambone142 · · Score: 1

      I had a feeling the comments to this article would be hilarious.

    6. Re:manbanging by Noxal · · Score: 1

      "fat twink" is an oxymoron. If you're fat you can't be a twink.

    7. Re:manbanging by cyberzephyr · · Score: 1

      Fat Twink after a Transporter accident.

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    8. Re:manbanging by jandersen · · Score: 1

      And no doubt we will soon see the Dear Leader in a music video under the title "Gangbang Style".

    9. Re:manbanging by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      Please, could we return to fart jokes and that 2girls movies, you're making me sick!

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    10. Re:manbanging by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 1

      You've missed the whole "Body Positivity" movement.

      Now you can be plus sized and a beauty model.
      You can be chubby and wear a bikini with pride.
      You can make scales squeak and still flaunt your body and turn people's heads.

      Don't you dare say you can't be a "fat twink". Think positive.

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    11. Re:manbanging by amicusNYCL · · Score: 1

      we at least have to see that fat dumpy little fucker spit roasted

      Jesus, man. No, we don't. We really don't.

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    12. Re:manbanging by DiEx-15 · · Score: 1

      If his success with ICBMs are an indication of anything:

      The whole film will be over in about 10 seconds.

  3. Manbang? by riverat1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    NAMBLA. wants to be on Manbang.

    1. Re:Manbang? by Mashiki · · Score: 2

      I thought NAMBLA would like a Boybang, aren't men a bit out of their age range? Or are they going for "best double team evar!"

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    2. Re:Manbang? by Dragonslicer · · Score: 1

      I don't understand what the North American Marlon Brando Look-Alikes have to do with this...

  4. Uh, what? by 110010001000 · · Score: 2

    "Everywhere" in Korean is not "manbang". Where do these journalists come up with this crap?

    1. Re:Uh, what? by Stormwatch · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm hesitant to search for 'korean manbang' on Google.

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    2. Re:Uh, what? by 110010001000 · · Score: 2

      "Womenbang". Go look it up on Google (preferably at work).

    3. Re:Uh, what? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1

      I'm hesitant to search for 'korean manbang' on Google.

      Yeah, probably safer to leave that one alone.

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    4. Re:Uh, what? by Zanadou · · Score: 4, Informative

      A somewhat more laborious interpretation might be "in each and all places": http://endic.naver.com/krenEnt...

    5. Re:Uh, what? by MobyDisk · · Score: 1

      Google translates "everywhere" as eodiena. It does not offer a translation from Koean for "manbang." I got similar results on other sites.

    6. Re:Uh, what? by AK+Marc · · Score: 5, Funny

      There are many times when translating a word, then translating it back, won't result in the same word returned, but it would still be the "correct" middle translation. "in each and all places" sounds close enough to "everwhere" I can't see how that's an incorrect translation, even if a bit awkward. Though "universal" sounds a bit more like a "to everyone in all places", but universal would be a stupid name for a media company.

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    7. Re:Uh, what? by righteousness · · Score: 1

      One possible translation of manbang is "nations".

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    8. Re:Uh, what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Alone? Alone, you say? In North Korea? That sounds ronery. So very ronery. -PCP

    9. Re:Uh, what? by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      And how does this go with the general "Don't fuck with us" message they try to send to the rest of the world? I somehow get mixed messages here.

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    10. Re:Uh, what? by AmiMoJo · · Score: 5, Informative

      Chinese, Japanese and Korean seem to be the most common languages for translation failure based memes. I think a lot of people assume it's just them being "weird" or something, but it's usually the western translator screwing it up. Two much over-used examples:

      Do not want: This was from the English subtitles on a Chinese bootleg copy of Star Wars III. Vader screams "noooooo", but there is no word for "no" in Chinese. You can say things like "do not [do that]" or "is not [that]", or "do not want [that]". So the Chinese translator correctly translated it into Chinese, retaining the original meaning (do not want my wife and child to be dead) but the machine translator that converted it back into English couldn't understand the context.

      Lack of context is a really common problem when translating Chinese, and to a lesser extent Japanese. In Japanese, for example, newspaper headlines often come out as "I went to some event" or "I found a large data outflow on the dark web", because the machine assumes talking in the first person and the word for "leak" becomes "outflow" because it can be used in that sort of context. For reference better translations would be "Visiting some event" and "Huge data leak found on dark web".

      Over 9000: This is from an episode of Dragon Ball Z. A character called Vegita can't believe that his opponent Goku's fighting power level is over 9000 points, when most humans are in the single digits. In the original it was actually "over 8000". 8000 has special meaning in Japanese, it's kinda like the English "zillion", not always intended as a precise number but rather just some really unbelievably large amount.

      The way the episode presents it, Guku starts off with a low power level and builds it up slowly. Vegita is counting it up, over 5000, over 6000, 7000.... It's a joke, a sort of pun maybe. So interestingly the western translator got it wrong, kinda, because they re-worded it a bit to fit the mouth movements on-screen with English voices and somehow ended up at 9000 in the count, but it became a joke unintentionally anyway. By chance and the skill of the voice actor hamming it up, the untranslatable joke was substituted with another.

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    11. Re:Uh, what? by suhock · · Score: 1

      There are several words in Korean that could be translated as everywhere. Manbang is one of them.

      According to Naver's Korean-Korean dictionary there are four different words spelled "manbang" (three with Chinese roots, one a colloquialism):

      1. Every place
      2. A synonym for manguk (all the nations of the world)
      3. In baduk (the game Go), what is said when you tally up the points and the difference is at least 91
      4. A colloquial abbreviation short for "manhwa bang" (comic book store)

      Abbreviations where one combines the first syllable of each word are common in South Korea, though I'm not sure about North Korea. If they do, then I suspect the fourth definition may have been the intended meaning. It's also worth noting that TFA never claims manbang translates as everywhere; that was added by the submitter.

    12. Re:Uh, what? by inode_buddha · · Score: 1

      Wanna blow your mind, try whitehouse.com. Yep the US is in on it.

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    13. Re:Uh, what? by sysrammer · · Score: 1

      That actually sounds worse.

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    14. Re:Uh, what? by sysrammer · · Score: 1

      And how does this go with the general "Don't fuck with us" message they try to send to the rest of the world? I somehow get mixed messages here.

      It's another simple mis-translation. A more correct wording would be "Don't fuck at us".

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    15. Re:Uh, what? by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      Any better offering for this famous mistranslation:

      https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/...

      Set us up the bomb

      All your base are belong to us!

      It makes for hilarious memes, but I am guessing it is supposed to be arm the bomb, and we will destroy you (or something like that).

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    16. Re:Uh, what? by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

      It's more like

      "Someone planted bombs (in our base)"

      "All your bases now belong to us!"

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  5. Manbang by BlytheBowman · · Score: 1

    So does it have gay porn on it too?

  6. best name ever by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    manbang and chill

  7. What an unfortunate name. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Isn't 'Manbang and Chill' a capitol offence in the DPRK?

    1. Re:What an unfortunate name. by Darinbob · · Score: 1

      It's ok, as long as you're not binging on Manbang.

    2. Re:What an unfortunate name. by h33t+l4x0r · · Score: 1

      Bing on Manbang ok. Prease no Google on Manbang.

    3. Re:What an unfortunate name. by sysrammer · · Score: 1

      Bing on Manbang ok. Prease no Google on Manbang.

      ...unless perform courtesy wipe.

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  8. Manbang and chill? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    It's not ambiguous at least.

  9. Classic NK marketing! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    With Manbang, one can watch as North Korean Taepodongs deploy their payloads prematurely shortly after takeoff.

    1. Re:Classic NK marketing! by jargonburn · · Score: 1

      Hmm. Guess that was too much lead in for the "double-play/typo-dong/masterstroke" joke. Oh, well!

  10. Openly admitting 1984 state copies life streaming by NotInHere · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't this unsettle us if one of the most "progressed" 1984 states in the world copies the concept of life streaming to use it against its own people?

  11. Will not support, or buy from N. Korea by DigiShaman · · Score: 1

    I refuse to support the N. Korean regime at any level. Any growth in their GDP will be redirected to their military. Purchasing the Manbang it tantamount to putting a down payment on a noose; one thread at a time.

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    1. Re:Will not support, or buy from N. Korea by mlts · · Score: 1

      They actually trade with someone other than basic stuff with China?

    2. Re:Will not support, or buy from N. Korea by XxtraLarGe · · Score: 1

      I refuse to support the N. Korean regime at any level. Any growth in their GDP will be redirected to their military. Purchasing the Manbang it tantamount to putting a down payment on a noose; one thread at a time.

      Wow, that's quite the courageous stance! How do you deal with the pressure of all of the door-to-door Manbang/other North Korean imports salesmen these days?

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    3. Re:Will not support, or buy from N. Korea by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 2

      Well, you may get more interesting content in NK, compared to Netflix-per-country-restricted-new-VPN-policy.

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    4. Re:Will not support, or buy from N. Korea by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      That is called in polite society "ordering a pizza".

      At least that is what the videos I have seen seem to tell me about the pizza delivery industry.

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  12. Re: Uh huh. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Always listening. Always... 1984

  13. Bad news by Okian+Warrior · · Score: 2, Informative

    I refuse to support the N. Korean regime at any level. Any growth in their GDP will be redirected to their military. Purchasing the Manbang it tantamount to putting a down payment on a noose; one thread at a time.

    I have some bad news for you.

    1. Re:Bad news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      "defense"

    2. Re:Bad news by JaredOfEuropa · · Score: 1

      Estimates range from 25% to 35%. Which is no surprise given their "military first" policy in a country that can't even reliably feed its people.

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    3. Re:Bad news by Major+Blud · · Score: 1

      Here's the data when you account for GDP:

      http://data.worldbank.org/indi...

      The United States barely makes the top 20.

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    4. Re:Bad news by sysrammer · · Score: 1

      Interesting.

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  14. Korean Central Television HD now? by Joe_Dragon · · Score: 1

    I don't think this box can pick up OTA analog tv.

  15. Manbang&Chill by BurnTim · · Score: 2

    'Can I invite you over for Manbang and Chill' You decide which of the two is the sexual portion.

  16. Manbang - shebang by LynnwoodRooster · · Score: 1, Funny

    William Hung is the new national star.

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  17. Fearless leedur on manbanging by TiggertheMad · · Score: 1

    "fat twink" is an oxymoron. If you're fat you can't be a twink.

    YOu at beiung shutting up now! FAERLESS LEADUR CAN DOANYTHING! He want be fat twink, he be bestest fat twink workd HAS ever seen! You Donalds Trump is not half fat twink Faerless leadur can ever be! KiM will wrestle him to mud, like fat greasy fat twink he is!

    you american no tell us what faerlus leedur can do, that why world so hate on you. We all be fat twinks just to show you what powerful NK peoples can do. We show you, but good! Fat twinkes we all be! Fuck on you!

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  18. SFW? by grimfate · · Score: 1

    You have intrigued me, but I feel this a joke that will make me regret searching "manbang" while at work...

  19. Milo should sue for trademark infringement by zapadnik · · Score: 1

    Milo Yiannopoulos should sue Kim Jong Un for infringing the trademark of his own streaming service, also called "ManBang".

    1. Re:Milo should sue for trademark infringement by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      Oh yes, one narcissistic wanker suing another one. Whoever loses, we win.

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  20. A few thousand viewers... by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 3, Informative

    Note that NK IPv4 address space is made of one /22 and two /24, i.e. ~1500 addresses... (See NK observer)

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    1. Re:A few thousand viewers... by Opportunist · · Score: 2

      You really think that they're not NATing, if for no other reason then to prevent the dear party members from offering content to the outside of the country?

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    2. Re:A few thousand viewers... by Place+a+name+here · · Score: 2

      North Korea works like a corporate intranet on steroids. There's an outwards facing internet presence (the ~15000 addresses) and then there's a national intranet. The two components are, for the most part, airgapped. If you're on the intranet side and want access to the internet, there are two options:

      - If you're very well off or part of the elite, you use a separate computer.
      - If you're not, but you're well enough off that you have intranet access, you can request material from the internet (usually research articles or whatever). This will be processed through the censors and copied over to the intranet side if it's found harmless.

      So the point of the thing is that just because there are only ~15000 addresses, that doesn't mean that the intranet side is particularly limited. It runs on (at least) the whole 10.* space as the NK Tech article shows.

  21. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 1

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  22. Re: Uh huh. by Opportunist · · Score: 1

    But the great leader can do it!

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  23. Re:They have one advantage by Opportunist · · Score: 1

    You mean like Mitsubishi?

    Not to mention the very unfortunate German soccer player Franco Foda, who was welcomed with roaring laughter in Brasil when he was sent into the game by his trainer.

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  24. Re:Glorious leader... by Opportunist · · Score: 1

    Glorious leader is not gay, glorious leader is shining beacon of loving his nation equally no matter what class or gender!

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  25. 1984 by Isendur · · Score: 1

    Two way communication sounds just like another take on the Big Brother. Do they even need that? Maybe the people are slowly getting conscious that there is a better world outside true Korea? I hope someone hacks this system as soon as it goes live.

  26. Manbang by kelemvor4 · · Score: 1

    Manbang: it doesn't mean everywhere, everywhere.

  27. Two Way Communication! by burni2 · · Score: 1

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    There brother thats what I want!

  28. From the people who brought you ... by PvtVoid · · Score: 2

    ... the No Dong.

  29. Man = 1000 by GlobalEcho · · Score: 1

    The Korean "man", which incidentally is actually pronounced with a long "a" to rhyme with the English word "on", is the same as 1,000 but can be translated as "infinite" in many situations. For example, a fountain pen is translated into Korean as a "1,000 year pen" or "man-youn-pil" (see here).

    The "bang", which is also pronounced with a long "a" to rhyme with the English word "on", means a "place" or a "room", as others here have noticed.

    Thus this word (as with many Korean words) is a portmanteau, in this case loosely meaning "infinite places", which makes the translation to the English word "everywhere" fairly reasonable.

    All that said, like most of the posters here, I think this choice of branding is truly hilarious.

    1. Re:Man = 1000 by lars.rasmusson · · Score: 1

      Infinite places does not mean everywhere. This is a common misconception when dealing with infinite sets.

      Suppose you have infinite many places, as many as the natural numbers.
      You may have infinitely many places numbered by even numbers, while still not have the other, infinitely many, places with odd numbers.

      So a more correct translation would be "in many places". But then again, if you are talking about infinite sets, the concept of "many" is also tricky, and leads into questions of set cardinality, aleph numbers, etc. which fortunately is a lot more interesting than the usual Netflix soap operas.

    2. Re:Man = 1000 by almitydave · · Score: 1

      Infinite places does not mean everywhere. This is a common misconception when dealing with infinite sets.

      It's probably not unreasonable to assume there are a finite number of rooms in North Korea.

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    3. Re:Man = 1000 by GlobalEcho · · Score: 1

      Infinite places does not mean everywhere. This is a common misconception when dealing with infinite sets.

      Suppose you have infinite many places, as many as the natural numbers.
      You may have infinitely many places numbered by even numbers, while still not have the other, infinitely many, places with odd numbers.

      So a more correct translation would be "in many places". But then again, if you are talking about infinite sets, the concept of "many" is also tricky, and leads into questions of set cardinality, aleph numbers, etc. which fortunately is a lot more interesting than the usual Netflix soap operas.

      Uh, thanks Lars. Where would we be without iconoclastic pedantry on Slashdot?

      Since we're being pedantic, you may wish to learn how to parse the phrase "loosely meaning".

    4. Re:Man = 1000 by lars.rasmusson · · Score: 1

      It was intended as a joke, illustrating, exactly as you said, "iconiclastic pedantry".

  30. Re:Glorious leader... by Buchenskjoll · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who read that as shiny bacon?

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  31. Oh come on... by Karl+Cocknozzle · · Score: 1

    The service is called Manbang

    We are completely being pranked. You win this round, Kim Jong Un...

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  32. "this is a two-way communication" by Punto · · Score: 1

    That sounds great. Will it help me do my exercise routine in the morning?

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  33. I smell a film franchise by luis_a_espinal · · Score: 1

    "Man Bang and the Pearly Necklace" starring Kim Jong Un!

  34. The Interview Sequel! by neoRUR · · Score: 1

    Sounds like we need a new "The Interview" movie sequel... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt27...

  35. Re:minor correction by GlobalEcho · · Score: 1

    This is an excellent explanation, but I have a very minor correction. Man means 10,000 and not 1,000.

    Gah. I worked so hard to make a good post and overlooked that! I keep getting fooled by the Asian grouping-by-four!

    Thanks for the correction.

  36. On a more serious note... by morethanapapercert · · Score: 1
    All gay jokes aside, I kind of think there might be an opportunity there for some high quality hackivism. I'm thinking that a skilled individual or group, who has access to some good North Korean translation could use this as an opportunity to post videos that give at least a few North Koreans a glimpse of what the rest of the world is like. The ideal video(s) would be subtle, things like going a wee bit over the top with praise for Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un or referring to the higher standard of living enjoyed by South Korea only to denounce its perceived "decadence" and claim that the suffering caused by Juche only makes the North Korean people stronger and morally "pure".

    Given some of the insanity we've seen out of official North Korean media, a sophisticated satire could easily pass for an official press release. The better the hoax video is crafted, the longer it will take the authorities to figure out that it isn't an official release by some other department in the government and take it down.

    I figure, as long as the culture in North Korea seems bent on slow self destruction, we might as well see if we can give it a bit of help. The sooner the North Korean regime collapses, the better it will be for the North and South Korean people.

    One question remains though: It's well known that North Korea maintains its own national Intranet and only approved people are allowed to use it. Does anyone know just how well connected that Intranet is to the world at large?

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  37. In communist North Korea by iamacat · · Score: 1

    The man bangs YOU!