This closed system prevents North Koreans from accessing foreign information, particularly from South Korea, where life is often portrayed in a positive light, which runs counter to the regime's ...

South Korea has the world's highest smartphone penetration rate, according to Pew Research Center, with about 94 percent of adults owning the devices in 2017, compared with 77 percent in the ...

The system, Alert!, will notify registered personnel in several ways, including a pop-up message on their workstation computer, email, text message and voicemail to their work, home and cell phones.

S. Korea radar and thermal system warns 'smartphone zombies' of traffic ... Telephone: *2421 * Extension 4 Jerusalem Post or 03-7619056 Fax: 03-5613699 E-mail: [email protected] ...

South Korea goes full Daft Punk to keep smartphone users out of intersections I don't know about you guys, but I'm terrified of looking at my phone for more than a second while I'm walking.

A two-way phone line connects representatives of both North and South Korea for logistical and diplomatic purposes. It is normally used twice daily – at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.

In another Orwellian measure, Pyongyang phones' government-created operating system takes screenshots of the device at random intervals, the two defectors say—a surveillance feature designed to ...