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Kevin Search
Kevin Search is an NK News contributor based in Seoul, South Korea. He previously worked for the North Korean Review Journal.
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Evergreen North Korea’s subtle, and not-so-subtle, tech knockoffsIn pictures: comparing tech products released in recent years with their foreign predecessors
Despite the significant strides that North Korea has made in recent years in updating the state of its domestic technological infrastructure, the “innovations” that the country has produced in order to achieve this have rarely made waves for their originality. From direct copycat products to loose imitations, to the now blatant use of internationally famous trademarked names like the “iPad,” the North Korean tech world is filled with examples of knockoffs of foreign made products. To summarize the latest and greatest examples of this trend, NK News has compiled a list, complete with pictures, to illustrate how these North © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |