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North Korea is where the Chinese outsource to for cheap labor and lax environmental policies. Wow.

• curiously 12y ago
  yes...imagine if samsung or hyundai gain unprecedented access to this ultra ultra cheap labor force. overall the article is bang on, the only people that benefit is north koreans and maybe south koreans but give the reunification a few decades or more, the end result is a shift of the status quo of regional power for neighboring countries.
  • aikah 12y ago
    > yes...imagine if samsung or hyundai gain unprecedented access to this ultra ultra cheap labor force. s/cheap/free and what makes you think they dont already?
  • Someone 12y ago
    Read the paper more closely. I do not know if they use it, but they do have access through the Kaesong industrial region. According to Wikipedia (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaesong_Industrial_Region http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaesong_Industrial_Region), Hyundai built it, so they know of its existence. Actually, unification might make this less attractive, as wages likely would rise in the North, changing the economics of doing this kind of stuff (I guess a bit in the way the abolition of slavery changed economies)
• BorisMelnik 12y ago
  Yesterday I was talking to a friend who ran a Twitter botnet of sorts and was telling me he outsourced a lot of his menial tasks to Indian workers, but found out that a lot of those workers would outsource work to China. Realizing now that some of those Chinese workers may be outsourcing the same work to North Korea.