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If you want an incredible understanding of North Korea read the comic book Pyongyang by Guy Delisle it’s an amazing look at what it’s like there and what it would be like to live there for a year.

One of the weirder ways they make money is with animation. Because traditional cell animation requires thousands upon thousands of drawings it's tremendously expensive if you have to pay your animators anything like first world wages. Since North Korea's workforce exists in a state of near slavery it's extremely cheap to make animated movies there.

French-Canadian animator Guy Delise made a graphic memior about his time working with the North Korean firm SEK making a children's show for French TV.

>I just wanted to make it clear that what SEK Studio did was most likely animation grunt work.

Uhm, I'm pretty sure most of us guessed that. I mean, that they wouldn't do the high-level art, direction or project management.

Maybe "produced" is a pretty strictly defined term, but I think when people hear it in that context they are aware that this means thousands of underpayed Koreans drawing in-betweens. Which is strange enough.

That being said, I want to recommend at this point one of the funniest and interesting diary-style comics I have ever read: Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea It's about the experience of a cartoonist traveling there to supervise animation work for a children's cartoon. Hilarious and insightful.

I read a bizarre graphic novel called "Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by, Guy Delisle. Worth a read. https://www.amazon.com/Pyongyang-Journey-North-Guy-Delisle/dp/1897299214

I hear it's moving into Vietnam as Korean wages get higher. There's also the North Korean animation industry, which has some pretty interesting results.

Also Pyongyang is a wonderful graphic novel about life in North Korea (not rural)

http://www.amazon.com/Pyongyang-A-Journey-North-Korea/dp/1897299214

This graphics novel is about this topic, and is really good:

http://www.amazon.com/Pyongyang-Journey-North-Guy-Delisle/dp/1897299214

(Though you probably are asking for a native to do an AMA, which would have been interesting indeed.)

Also, the Vice Guide to North Korea -- just incredibly good, imo:

http://www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-guide-to-travel/vice-guide-to-north-korea-1-of-3

Oh ok right you are completely ignorant of the entire situation

here is a book with pictures

https://www.amazon.com/Pyongyang-Journey-North-Guy-Delisle/dp/1897299214

Honestly dude watch a fucking documentary or something Are you that unaware of what has already been done?

The 10000 figure is pretty wide spread... I have seen in quotes in books I read on north korea. There is even a picture novel for adults (illustrated novel ) that an expat contractor wrote that actually happens in that hotel.n

http://www.amazon.com/Pyongyang-A-Journey-North-Korea/dp/1897299214

Really there are quite a few tourists. I am going to go myself, almost did a few years ago, but had some things come up. I have a couple friends who already visited too. It isn't Paris or Dubai, no where close to that, but it isn't that rare either.

If you don't like wikiepedia, just google some other sources... http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-north-korea-tourists-20140912-story.html#page=1

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-22077585

and many more. They say 3500-7000, so a bit less than what i said. There are a lot more Chinese that go. They can go pretty freeely NK, even with their own cars. It is a big casino destination for them. NK even plans on increasing to 2 million tourists/year in the next few years (i admit that is a bit far fetched though )

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/asia/northkorea/11642983/North-Korea-hopes-to-welcome-2-million-tourists.html

that last article claims 100 000 visitors a year already too... but hey, you must know better than me, and wikipedia is all bullshit ofcourse...

I found this book by accident. I really enjoyed it. It was my introduction to North Korea. And its a graphic novel. Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea http://www.amazon.com/Pyongyang-A-Journey-North-Korea/dp/1897299214