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Super interesting, thanks for sharing! Quotes from this article: "But even many grown-ups enjoy [animation in North Korea] because it is one of the rare telev
by pradn 6y ago
Super interesting, thanks for sharing!
Quotes from this article:
"But even many grown-ups enjoy [animation in North Korea] because it is one of the rare television programs in the North free of political messages"
"Actually most researchers estimate that almost half of the households in the North have television sets. It's just another common misconception about the North to think that only the rich get to watch television. There are also many animated films released in theatres."
- estaseuropano 6y agoWould be interesting to see the overall social balance or GINI for north Korea with reasonable data. A huge proportion of the population has no food and there is a difference between a flatscreen 30" and second hand Chinese 16" TV from the 80s but they mkfhr both appear as 'having a TV' in the statistics, so I would be careful to draw conclusions from this.
- toto444 6y agoI remember reading in Poor Economics by Duflo and Banerjee that poor people having a TV is not uncommon at all. They take the example of a Moroccan family in a rural area. They explain that because that's the only thing there is to do, owning a TV makes a massive difference to your everyday life.