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A community about anything related to Korea, such as news about the countries (DPRK and south), discussion, photos and videos, the language, etc.

See also: !juchegang@lemmygrad.ml, which is intended for memes rather than serious discussion of these topics.

The picture of this Lemmy community is magnolia (목란), the national flower of the DPRK. The background picture is a scenery of Pyongyang.

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Be skeptical of your sources. Don't trust the media that has been known to report many falsehoods about Korea already. (You may still link to them if they write something interesting / worth reading, just be careful.)

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A Growing Project in Archiving North Korean Animation (youtube.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by gabberpunk@lemmygrad.ml to c/korea@lemmygrad.ml

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Hi! I wanted to make my first post on Lemmygrad about my partner's efforts to make North Korean animation (SEK Studio), as well as North Korean dubs of foreign animation, more accessible to people outside of the DPRK. This includes subtitles in multiple languages! Majority of these subs are made in the DPRK for international publication, it's just that they aren't able to easily publish them as western social media platforms will always eventually ban any North Korean owned account.

For the unsubbed animation, my partner has been watching and scrubbing through daily streams of the DPRK's main television network. They clip these never seen before animations (outside of the DPRK) and upload them onto their YouTube channel. They've been working on this for awhile. I'm not exactly sure how well known their content is in ML circles, so I thought people here might be interested in this.

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[–] gabberpunk@lemmygrad.ml [S] 8 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

My partner actually uploaded a higher quality version of the series onto archive.org. Since this higher quality version didn't have subtitles, they retimed the subtitles for the whole series so it's now the most definitive way to watch it. Here it is https://archive.org/details/squirrelandhedgehogdvdresync

Unlike a lot of the other series, these subtitles were done by fans AFAIK probably due to getting very popular in the west and also Russia as it was one of the first DPRK cartoons spread around on the Internet.

I've heard a lot of liberals lie and say it's the only cartoon available in the DPRK, which is obviously false. But it's actually far from the most popular over there. I guess that's why it doesn't seem to be a priority for Voice of Korea to translate for foreigners.

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[–] ferret@hub.workersofthe.world 4 points 2 months ago

@gabberpunk Clever Raccoon Dog is definitely up there, yeah.

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