Tips to grow your North Korean Startup
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Tips to grow your North Korean Startup
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Re: Tips to grow your North Korean Startup
#2In 2018, I got connected to 5 refugees who escaped North Korea to the USA. What surprised me was all 5 were able to escape by different variations of saving up enough money to bribe people along the way.
The only way to save up money for their ages (16-23) was to become "entrepreneurial"
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If you are interested in North Korea, check out the stories by some friends of mine:
Charles - North Korean refugee turned programmer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ziqq5gUXu8g
North Korean Spy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9rLqYXTaFI
Girl with parents who worked in the government whose whole family escaped https://www.youtube.com/c/Pyonghattan/videos
Re: Tips to grow your North Korean Startup
#3In 2018, I got connected to 5 refugees who escaped North Korea to the USA. What surprised me was all 5 were able to escape by different variations of saving up enough money to bribe people along the way. The only way to save up money for their ages (16-23) was to become "entrepreneurial" EDIT: If you are interested in North Korea, check out the stories by some friends of mine: Charles - North Korean refugee turned pr…
This seems universal to authoritarian states where corruption is the only viable strategy to get ahead.
Unfortunately, it also seems to consistently produce an entrenched, corrupt power class that persists long after the regime is overthrown.
See also the former Soviet Bloc.
Re: Tips to grow your North Korean Startup
#4In 2018, I got connected to 5 refugees who escaped North Korea to the USA. What surprised me was all 5 were able to escape by different variations of saving up enough money to bribe people along the way. The only way to save up money for their ages (16-23) was to become "entrepreneurial" EDIT: If you are interested in North Korea, check out the stories by some friends of mine: Charles - North Korean refugee turned pr…
This seems universal to authoritarian states where corruption is the only viable strategy to get ahead. Unfortunately, it also seems to consistently produce an entrenched, corrupt power class that persists long after the regime is overthrown. See also the former Soviet Bloc.
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Re: Tips to grow your North Korean Startup
#5In 2018, I got connected to 5 refugees who escaped North Korea to the USA. What surprised me was all 5 were able to escape by different variations of saving up enough money to bribe people along the way. The only way to save up money for their ages (16-23) was to become "entrepreneurial" EDIT: If you are interested in North Korea, check out the stories by some friends of mine: Charles - North Korean refugee turned pr…
Interesting. I guess you speak Korean?
Re: Tips to grow your North Korean Startup
#6In 2018, I got connected to 5 refugees who escaped North Korea to the USA. What surprised me was all 5 were able to escape by different variations of saving up enough money to bribe people along the way. The only way to save up money for their ages (16-23) was to become "entrepreneurial" EDIT: If you are interested in North Korea, check out the stories by some friends of mine: Charles - North Korean refugee turned pr…
How did you get connected with those refugees, if you don't mind my curiosity?
Re: Tips to grow your North Korean Startup
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This seems universal to authoritarian states where corruption is the only viable strategy to get ahead. Unfortunately, it also seems to consistently produce an entrenched, corrupt power class that persists long after the regime is overthrown. See also the former Soviet Bloc.
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All power structures are authoritarian. Get rid of congress, and you'll simply have your local landholders pay private enforcers to keep the rabble in line. Property rights in theory apply to everyone, but in practice, are consistently enforced in a way that protects large, wealthy property owners more than everyone else.
Re: Tips to grow your North Korean Startup
#8In 2018, I got connected to 5 refugees who escaped North Korea to the USA. What surprised me was all 5 were able to escape by different variations of saving up enough money to bribe people along the way. The only way to save up money for their ages (16-23) was to become "entrepreneurial" EDIT: If you are interested in North Korea, check out the stories by some friends of mine: Charles - North Korean refugee turned pr…
How did you get connected with those refugees, if you don't mind my curiosity?
An event held by LINK - https://www.libertyinnorthkorea.org/
They are a nonprofit that helps people escape from North Korea
Re: Tips to grow your North Korean Startup
#9In 2018, I got connected to 5 refugees who escaped North Korea to the USA. What surprised me was all 5 were able to escape by different variations of saving up enough money to bribe people along the way. The only way to save up money for their ages (16-23) was to become "entrepreneurial" EDIT: If you are interested in North Korea, check out the stories by some friends of mine: Charles - North Korean refugee turned pr…
Interesting. I guess you speak Korean?
Just Chinese and learning Russian now :)
Some of them speak English, others we had a translator.
Re: Tips to grow your North Korean Startup
#10In 2018, I got connected to 5 refugees who escaped North Korea to the USA. What surprised me was all 5 were able to escape by different variations of saving up enough money to bribe people along the way. The only way to save up money for their ages (16-23) was to become "entrepreneurial" EDIT: If you are interested in North Korea, check out the stories by some friends of mine: Charles - North Korean refugee turned pr…
I've met and worked with an organization that sort of comes from the other side of the equation. They are involved in helping North Koreans flee from the country, as well as helping those that have already managed to get across the border on their own *. The end goal is to get them into South Korea.
This sometimes involves providing the bribes that you speak of.
* Often times for women, there is a second level of escape. "Brokers" help them cross the border into China, where they are then forced into prostitution, sexual slavery, or "sold" as brides. This organization also bribes the various peoples/groups (often times gangsters, pimps, etc.) holding these North Koreans in bondage in China into letting them go.