North Korea TV's makeover

North Korean state TV has experimented with an interesting new look for its main news bulletins, featuring - for a single day only

[zacharysantana]

Are they getting rid of the pink lady?

[DennisEspiritu]

No visual improvements can replace the enthusiasm brought by the pink lady.

[mikicerise]

Bring back pink lady! She is the only person I would ever have threatening me with total nuclear annhilation.

[halolime]

Their country is litteraly in 1980 at max it's so sad

[yatsumleung]

Miss Ri Chun Hee, the famous pink news lady, did an interview with China’s CCTV and explained the overhaul. She explained that news broadcast used to be plain and emotionless. But now she has trained the presenters to make it into a performance for the TV audience, and change the tone of the broadcast to milder and more gentle.

She has also retired from the daily news broadcast and focused on training new presenters and reporters. She said, of course the audience would like to see a young and pretty presenter on TV! She only hosts new reports during major announcements and festivals.

[ianeons]

Kim Jong-Un is living in 2030, Pyongyang is living in 1950, and the rest of the country is living in the 1700s

[allyjane]

By just doing that they used 10% of their GDP

[PIZZA_KITTY]

Their television programs look like 1980's technology trying to mimic 2000's style in mediocre way.

[Pygmygerbil]

I wish everyone was born free.
poor kids in NK.
they didn't have any choice.

[도하]

0:01 Diversified, Diversified, Multicolored
0:03 Lyuwon shoes factory, Lightweight
0:19 News coverage
0:35 Modernization, localization...
0:39 Ratio of high-quality production
0:43 Integration of science and technology and production, Kim Myung-suk Pyongyang Silk Mill(?) (I can't speak English well)
0:45 Integration of production process
0:55 Just as our hearts are one, we have one belief
1:07 (korean chidren's story)
2:27 lotion
2:32 30 types and 50 types before modernization in 2015 (cosmetics)
300 kinds of 110 kinds after modernization in 2019 (cosmetics)

[anonymousboogaloo]

To be honest, it's quite impressive.

[akhileshap]

Probably they've got hands on a computer powerful enough to animate or process video.

[MattSuguisAsFondAsEverrr]

Finally
Stepping in the year 2009






*_then going back to 1960_*

[shuhratkessikbayev]

That pink lady has been a news anchor throughout my lifetime that I can tell my kids and grandkids "I saw North Korea change up their news from the comfort and safety of my home in American as I eat a nice bag of Doritos and a family value meal with a nice bucket of fried chicken from KFC and a diet coke."

[lulu]

If only pink lady knew how many people outside of NK love to see her on air. Her fanbase fare beyond her homeland.

[JobCambronero]

Just like the regular TV in each country

[beluga]

Feeling sad for the people who live there. I can't even imagine such a restricted life

[defox]

I mean, people say the 80s were the best, the North Koreans took that to heart.

[ghastlyghandi]

Third world country: *invests a little bit more money into their news organisations, allowing them to make higher quality broadcasts*
Western media: “who care?”
North Korea: *does literally the exact same thing*
Western media: “:O”

[Anonymous-qlyd]

When the pink lady used to announce news, I used to feel like a South Korean historical drama is going on given her presentation.