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Even North Korea, they're still training them on office/windows:

http://imgur.com/lQQGjyu

(taken in a school in pyongsong, autumn last year)



Wow, I love that sign! It has such a classic Soviet propaganda feel, it's appears to be entirely hand-painted despite the fact that it's offering computer courses (hand done sign lettering is a dying art in the West), and it has an awesome retro-futuristic robot!

Now I'm wondering what those dates on the bottom refer to.


This is probably just to make it look like they do learn stuff on computers, but the level of poverty in NK is so appalling I doubt they have computers in most schools.


Oh, most people in NK never get a sniff of a computer. But it has some animation and IT-outsourcing businesses which are no doubt a nice little foreign-currency earner for the government:

http://www.koreaittimes.com/story/8242/north-korea-needs-set...

http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1906219,00...

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2012/8/153816-inside-the-hermi... (A¢M paywalled)




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