North Korea, the East Asian country has come up with its own version of Netflix and named it 'Manbang' which translates to 'everywhere' or 'every direction'.
NK News reported about entertainment streaming service which enables users to "replay documentary films about the leadership and learn Russian and English languages IPTV services." Which probably means no Jessica Jones, Stranger Things or Glimore girls for the citizens of the secretive nation.
The service is said to be based on a dedicated streaming device with less effective interface. The service has also been rolled out to North Korea's state broadcaster KCTV and other four TV networks.
The service is quite surprising to the nation where the internet reach is limited to few thousand people. The country has its own internet with a handful of active websites which stands at 5000.
So what prompted the country to launch its Authoritarian-style streaming service? Well, it is mostly the kids.
"Children tended to pester to show new interesting videos again after their release, but we had difficulty in dealing with it," Kim Geun Hee, a teacher at Sariwon orphanage revealed.
"However, we are happy since we are now able to show films to them again, and children enjoy it."
The functionality of the service is also quite similar to that of Netflix.
"If a viewer wants to watch, for instance, an animal movie and sends a request to the equipment, it will show the relevant video to the viewer...this is two-way communications," explained Kim Jong Min, head of the center in charge of providing information and technology to KCTV.
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