The smartphone used by the tour guide while traveling in North Korea. The guide introduced her smartphone as a Pyongyang brand, which her father bought for her on her birthday for three hundred dollars. During my few days in North Korea, I realized that many aspects of North Korea were different from what I had imagined. Before arriving in North Korea, I thought there were very few people using smartphones, but I didn’t expect to find a lot of people using smartphones on the road and in the subway station.
The number of people using smartphones in North Korea is increasing, so what do North Koreans use smartphones for? Chatting with our tour guide, I learned that she mainly uses her smartphone to make phone calls for entertainment and study. North Korea’s smartphones are similar to our Android phones, but the difference is that their smartphones can’t directly download APPs on the Internet, and many of the APPs on the phone come with the system.
When I was chatting with the guide, I wanted to borrow the guide’s cell phone to have some fun. The guide hesitated for a while and lent me his cell phone, urging me not to break it. Playing with the North Korean’s smartphone, I found a very interesting software, this software is very similar to our beauty camera, use it to take selfies, and take better pictures.
In addition to the beauty function, you can also add some interesting things to the picture, such as adding a hat on the head, adding a rabbit ears and so on.
However, compared with a variety of domestic beauty cameras, this software goes the plain route, rarely see a variety of weird things. The guide said that the software in the phone, is paid to download in its offline store. North Koreans often have to go to an offline store to download software for their smartphones, pay for it, and then transfer it to their cell phones through the store’s computers and data cables. Nowadays, North Korean girls are also fond of using smartphones to play with selfies.
Cell phones have now become a mass tool for the people of North Korea. The number of local people using cell phones is not as many as in the country, but it is starting to become popular. In cities like Pyongyang, North Korea, there are a lot of people using cell phones. North Koreans use smartphones, much like we do. They are mainly used for communication and entertainment. However, there are differences between them and us, the apps in their cell phones are relatively monotonous, and the cost of cell phone Internet access is also very expensive, so they seldom brush the news online or watch videos.
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