Mobile Phone Subscribers in North Korea Hit 70,000！

North Korea is a secretive country to most of us because people could not get information about North Korea direct from North Koreans.And what we get now is mostly information from agents.Recently I found an interesting report that North Koreans have got the right to own mobile phones.That's really interesting.

Here's the exact report I found! Hope you'd like it!

Demand for mobile phones in the secretive North Korea has continued to remain strong, with the sole mobile network in the country, koryolink reporting that its subscriber base had reached 69,261 at the end of September. It is presumed that the subscriber base would have passed the 70,000 mark by the end of October.

Koryolink is majority owned by Eygpt's Orascom Telecom.

koryolink established many precedents: the first of its kind Call Center was established to cater for customers' needs through highly trained bi-lingual agents. Additionally, despite the conservative nature of North Korea and the almost non-existent marketing and advertising industries, koryolink's launch was advertised in major newspapers and radio. koryolink also managed to avail different BTL materials (flyers, posters, danglers) to create awareness and for customer education.

In the 9 months ending September 30, 2009 koryolink reported revenues of US$18.5 as one of the handful joint venture companies in a strictly controlled socialist country. Over the same period koryolink reported an EBITDA of US$10 million with a margin of 54%.

In its focus on network roll-out and network quality improvement koryolink has invested a total of US$25 million in the nine months to September 2009. Currently, network roll-out to extend coverage to the whole country is in progress.

koryolink's retail network has started off with just the one centralized sales shop. However, by end of Q3, there are now three sales shops for selling the SIM card connection. Also capitalizing on the cooperation with the local partner Korea Post & Telecommunication Corp. (KPTC), 9 post office outlets where added to koryolink's indirect sales network for selling Scratch Cards in different locations with an aim of reaching customers' in different populated areas of Pyongyang. More indirect sales outlets will follow with the future expansion of network coverage in other cities.

I wish North Korea will be much more opener to the world and become a prosperous country.People there are really miserable and we should offer them some donations to help them.

Ziyi Zhang's latest Film------ Sophie's Revenge distorts herself!

Chinese starlet Zhang Ziyi's first foray into the contemporary romantic comedy genre is a mostly successful one, due in large part to her own rather wonderful performance. The story may be somewhat run-of-the-mill, but with plenty of cash behind it, some sure-footed direction from Eva Jin Yimeng and a colour palette to rival SPEED RACER, SOPHIE'S REVENGE offers plenty to enjoy.

Plot

Comic book artist Sophie (Zhang Ziyi) is a sweet and carefree girl brimming with creativity. She and her handsome surgeon boyfriend of two years, Jeff (So Ji-sub), are the perfect couple. After his marriage proposal to her in front of her family and all of her friends, Sophie is the happiest person in the world.

One day, Jeff meets a famous movie star, Joanna (Fan Bingbing), during a surgical procedure. Immediately afterwards, he breaks up with Sophie.

Devastated, Sophie takes to bed. She is unable to face anyone, especially her mother who had been planning the wedding. Sophie decides to cover up the break-up, with only her 2 best friends, Lucy (Ruby Lin) and Lily (Yao Chen) knowing the truth. She comes up with a master plan : she will use the remaining two months before the wedding date to do whatever it takes to get Jeff back.

She also plans to publish her many strategies in her new comic book. She wants to show women everywhere how to use a 'scientific' approach to win love back. Sophie's first strategy of "Generosity and Forgiveness" does not go well. At a Halloween part, hosted by Gorden (Peter Ho), a photographer, she drowns her sorrows in alcohol. She stumbles upon a photo of Gorden and Joanna together which immediately gives her the idea of forming an alliance with him. Gordon agrees to become Sophie's partner and her guest for revenge becomes a roller coaster of comedic turns and twists. Together they create a duo filled with surpises and adventures. But there seems more to meet the eye with their relationship.

Will Sophie win her man back? Is revenge all that it's made out to be? Is it madness or is it love? Sometimes love can be found in the most unlikely places

Review: First I have to say,this movie is a disaster when she chose to cooperate with those sick Koreans!And this movie might be a distort to Zhang's images!