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North Korea's information technology (IT) is superior, especially in the field of computer-based animation production, according to Dutch IT outsourcing specialist when you're doing business with North Korean companies.
Speaking to an audience in Seoul who was there the launch of a book about the North, "Europe-North Korea, Between Humanities and Business", Paul Tjia said France and Italy are the two major users of North Korean animators.
He said that his Dutch clients also outsourcing animation to North Korea. European cartoon versions of literary classics such as "Arabian Nights" and "Les Miserables", which aired on European television, it is animated in part of North Korea.
Clients animation produced in the communist regime is not just Europe.
In early 2000 when inter-Korean relations at the top, and even some South Korean animation made in North Korea.
"Pororo Little Penguin", an animated cartoon series, is an inter-Korean project which was completed in 2002. Also that same year, Akom, a South Korean company, also outsourced production of "Empress Chung" to North Korea. This animation was released in 2005.
Tjia mentioned that some of Walt Disney animation was created by America North Korea, purely by accident. Politics of North Korea and America have a prickly relationship and the U.S. government banned the private sector to do business with North Korean companies.
"There was a time when the Walt Disney animated production outsourcing with them to countries in Asia such as Vietnam or the Philippines, but the company did not have full control over which countries whose work was made., And then found that some produced in North Korea", he said, adding that was discovered after the animation has been aired on TV.
An official at the Seoul Animation Center approved part of what the Dutch say, Walt Disney confirmed that outsourcing to Asia is true, and that is precisely how South Korea's animation industry depart.
People in the North Korean IT industry was given far more freedom than the ordinary people in foreign travel. They are free to go "to learn new skills," said Tjia, shows a group photo with the North Korean IT engineers in Europe.
In addition to animation, he added, North Korea is also interested in developing computer games, applications and mobile banking systems to clients from the Middle East.
"They are targeting European clients," he said.
But for some the emergence of North Korea as an animation producer was not without alarm.
A European diplomat at the site expressed concerns over security, the possibility that European businesses can empower IT with North Korea to become a cyber attacker.
North Korea already has a distinguished record of cyber attacks against South Korean website, the most recent occurring last July.
"They (North Korea) said that they are capable of producing a computer virus," said Tjia, and he has seen programs anti-virus created by North Korea. Head of South Korea's National Intelligence Service last year was quoted as saying that North Korea has a 1000 power hacker who can engage in cyber warfare. He also said the North has a distinguished cyber skills "extraordinary" to conduct full-scale attack in the South.
Cre: Hanacinema.net
North Korea's information technology (IT) is superior, especially in the field of computer-based animation production, according to Dutch IT outsourcing specialist when you're doing business with North Korean companies.
Speaking to an audience in Seoul who was there the launch of a book about the North, "Europe-North Korea, Between Humanities and Business", Paul Tjia said France and Italy are the two major users of North Korean animators.
He said that his Dutch clients also outsourcing animation to North Korea. European cartoon versions of literary classics such as "Arabian Nights" and "Les Miserables", which aired on European television, it is animated in part of North Korea.
Clients animation produced in the communist regime is not just Europe.
In early 2000 when inter-Korean relations at the top, and even some South Korean animation made in North Korea.
"Pororo Little Penguin", an animated cartoon series, is an inter-Korean project which was completed in 2002. Also that same year, Akom, a South Korean company, also outsourced production of "Empress Chung" to North Korea. This animation was released in 2005.
Tjia mentioned that some of Walt Disney animation was created by America North Korea, purely by accident. Politics of North Korea and America have a prickly relationship and the U.S. government banned the private sector to do business with North Korean companies.
"There was a time when the Walt Disney animated production outsourcing with them to countries in Asia such as Vietnam or the Philippines, but the company did not have full control over which countries whose work was made., And then found that some produced in North Korea", he said, adding that was discovered after the animation has been aired on TV.
An official at the Seoul Animation Center approved part of what the Dutch say, Walt Disney confirmed that outsourcing to Asia is true, and that is precisely how South Korea's animation industry depart.
People in the North Korean IT industry was given far more freedom than the ordinary people in foreign travel. They are free to go "to learn new skills," said Tjia, shows a group photo with the North Korean IT engineers in Europe.
In addition to animation, he added, North Korea is also interested in developing computer games, applications and mobile banking systems to clients from the Middle East.
"They are targeting European clients," he said.
But for some the emergence of North Korea as an animation producer was not without alarm.
A European diplomat at the site expressed concerns over security, the possibility that European businesses can empower IT with North Korea to become a cyber attacker.
North Korea already has a distinguished record of cyber attacks against South Korean website, the most recent occurring last July.
"They (North Korea) said that they are capable of producing a computer virus," said Tjia, and he has seen programs anti-virus created by North Korea. Head of South Korea's National Intelligence Service last year was quoted as saying that North Korea has a 1000 power hacker who can engage in cyber warfare. He also said the North has a distinguished cyber skills "extraordinary" to conduct full-scale attack in the South.
Cre: Hanacinema.net
