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Dagyum Ji
Dagyum Ji was a senior NK News correspondent based in Seoul. She previously worked for Reuters TV.
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News N.Korea’s Koryolink provides mobile data-oriented price plansMobile users can watch television, read news and take online courses
North Korean cellphone network operator Koryolink offers mobile data services with a variety of data-oriented price plans, a pamphlet obtained by NK News reveals. Koryolink offers five different rates, which have differing membership fees, flat monthly fees, free data allowances and charges for additional usage. The North’s telecommunication company also has different services based on whether customers pay in local or foreign currencies. Customers who use domestic domestic currency are allowed to use two different prepaid services, simply called type one and type two. “The [domestic] subscribers pay 2,850 North Korean Won (KPW) as a flat quarter fee, and utilize © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |