The Daily NK has an interesting article on a smuggler of South Korean dramas into North Korea.

Despite the North Korean authorities’ strict control, foreign films and South Korean drama Video Compact Disks (VCDs) circulating around North Korea reportedly amount to over 1 million copies since 2000.

Defector Choi Young Bum (pseudonym, 38), who has circulated South Korean and foreign movie VCDs among North Korean citizens said, “If one goes to a large city market, not only Pyongyang, but Pyongsung, Chongjin, Hamheung, Wonsan, and Shinuiju, hundreds or thousands of movies and drama CDs can be obtained through black marketeers.”

As previously noted by Havocscope, citizens who watch contraband films at home run the risk of having their electricity cut of during raids conducted by officials.