The story as reported by
Victoria Ho, Singapore, has it that the North Korean country has produced a
Netflix style video service called Manbang.
The name Manbang which
is translate ‘everywhere’ in Korean is another tool employed by the North
Korean government in the effort to indoctrinate its populace.
NK News reports that North Korean state TV announced
on Tuesday the set-top box called "Manbang", which will provide, in
addition to live TV, articles from the official Rodong
Sinmun newspaper and
the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
Korean Central Television, the reclusive nation's only broadcast news
station, also posted
a video on YouTube for the outside world to take a glimpse of Manbang.
While Manbang translates
to "everywhere" in Korean, the service will ironically be pretty
limited. There are only five channels available, and all feature
government-approved news and educational shows, providing similar
indoctrination on the
And the ngovernment's ideologies that other forms of media there already do.
And the number of people
who have access to the internet at home are likely to be in the minority, given
the cost of computer ownership versus household incomes, and that reportedly very
few devices are connected to
the internet at all.
And the number of people
who have access to the internet at home are likely to be in the minority, given
the cost of computer ownership versus household incomes, and that reportedly very
few devices are connected to
the internet at all.
Like with other internet
TV services such as Netflix or Hulu, Manbang's users will be able to type in a
title of a show to search for relevant content, or flick through a catalogue of
episodes, says the report.
KCTV's
video showed the process of selecting an episode on the interface:
It
appears that the set-top box connects to the TV by HDMI, and requires a cable
connection to a modem.
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