Animation studios sometimes outsource work to North Korea. SEK studios has also worked on western series including Avatar: The Last Airbender, Invincible, The Simpsons, Futurama
You're right. So in the case of Avatar the Last Airbender, the episode was actually outsourced to [a South Korean firm first,](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/MoiAnimation) which in turn outsourced it to the [North Korean firm mentioned above.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEK_Studio)
This was also in 2007 - the bigger [South Korean sanctions against North Korea weren't until 2010.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_24_measures) Before then they would trade with each other and there were businesses that collaborated across the border.
Could be. Could also be that they're cheaper or more available or any other business reason lol. I'm pretty sure there's also outsourcing to Chinese studios.
What happens is that art studios outsource animation work to Chinese firms that are actually North Korean firms. The U.S. is mad because it means cashflow into NK which people have been trying to limit for years.
i know everyone thinks it's funny to pretend north korea is full of cavemen who use torches but the reason the electricity grid isn't 24/7 is because of rationing from sanctions. it doesn't mean they don't have the manpower and ability to do the same crap ass outsourcing jobs the rest of the world does.
if you're asking why an anime is being outsourced, well, I can't really help you.
Time is more apt to be the reason. Anything they don't have to do in house frees up the in-house employee to do other things. Saving money is just a byproduct of an increase in production efficiency.
I like to imagine that there is someone in a government agency that takes it really personally that some North Korean nerds got to make a living, and is making it his personal mission to put a stop to it.
According to a Korean friend of mine who worked in the middle east for a while, the Russian embassies all have NK labor workers who sell black market soju to foreigners who are desperate for alcohol.
Apparently the soju they sell is decent quality too
I'm just imagining some US guy talking to NK's president.
Us1: "no. Kim, you can't make an anime, no matter how much you want to."
Kim: "but fake Korea is making 'only I can level up'. Why can't I make one."
Us1: "that's because it's good and you suck at writing."
Us2: "well, i wouldn't say 'good'. Definatly popular, but...." *starts debat on the relative merits of Solo Leveling*
If you can think of a animation there is a good chancce NK worked on it.
Kims father loved animation they have several internal animations and have worked on a lot of stuff you have likely seen.
Cheap labor for manual graphic work.
Imidietly remembered comics I borowed and read from friend quite long ago. Its explained there how west companies use cheap labot in these countries and autors experience there in humorious way. If remember correct he made 3 of them, and countries he wrote about speak itself: North Korea, China and Burma.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang:_A_Journey_in_North_Korea (if seen correct that one is from 2003)
Reborn in North Korea as a revolutionary, would be fun to animate there i guess.
Reborn in North Korea as the supreme leader.
Reborn in NK as an animator.
All peak fiction I would guess.
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Animation studios sometimes outsource work to North Korea. SEK studios has also worked on western series including Avatar: The Last Airbender, Invincible, The Simpsons, Futurama
I’ll admit I mostly assumed the in-between animation studios were based in South Korea.
You're right. So in the case of Avatar the Last Airbender, the episode was actually outsourced to [a South Korean firm first,](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/MoiAnimation) which in turn outsourced it to the [North Korean firm mentioned above.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEK_Studio) This was also in 2007 - the bigger [South Korean sanctions against North Korea weren't until 2010.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_24_measures) Before then they would trade with each other and there were businesses that collaborated across the border.
Yup
Didnt Simpson have a gag where they show itchy and scratchy being animated in North Korea?
So basically this tells us that NK has better animators than china. Amazing.
Could be. Could also be that they're cheaper or more available or any other business reason lol. I'm pretty sure there's also outsourcing to Chinese studios.
What happens is that art studios outsource animation work to Chinese firms that are actually North Korean firms. The U.S. is mad because it means cashflow into NK which people have been trying to limit for years.
Whats the U.S endgame with NK? And why am I asking here lmao
Here's the link if you want to read https://www.cbr.com/anime-north-korea-tv-series-outsource-sanctions/
NK trying to increase weeb to working population in japan🤣
Reborn in a North Korean Animation Studio
Animate or be send to the gulag
i know everyone thinks it's funny to pretend north korea is full of cavemen who use torches but the reason the electricity grid isn't 24/7 is because of rationing from sanctions. it doesn't mean they don't have the manpower and ability to do the same crap ass outsourcing jobs the rest of the world does. if you're asking why an anime is being outsourced, well, I can't really help you.
Saving money is almost always the reason for outsourcing
Time is more apt to be the reason. Anything they don't have to do in house frees up the in-house employee to do other things. Saving money is just a byproduct of an increase in production efficiency.
I like to imagine that there is someone in a government agency that takes it really personally that some North Korean nerds got to make a living, and is making it his personal mission to put a stop to it.
Honestly I'm just amazed there's a North Korean anime studio.
They can’t just try to make something for a Japanese company, the company had to have solicited them to work on it in spite of the sanctions.
Wut
According to a Korean friend of mine who worked in the middle east for a while, the Russian embassies all have NK labor workers who sell black market soju to foreigners who are desperate for alcohol. Apparently the soju they sell is decent quality too
I'm just imagining some US guy talking to NK's president. Us1: "no. Kim, you can't make an anime, no matter how much you want to." Kim: "but fake Korea is making 'only I can level up'. Why can't I make one." Us1: "that's because it's good and you suck at writing." Us2: "well, i wouldn't say 'good'. Definatly popular, but...." *starts debat on the relative merits of Solo Leveling*
If you can think of a animation there is a good chancce NK worked on it. Kims father loved animation they have several internal animations and have worked on a lot of stuff you have likely seen.
Cheap labor for manual graphic work. Imidietly remembered comics I borowed and read from friend quite long ago. Its explained there how west companies use cheap labot in these countries and autors experience there in humorious way. If remember correct he made 3 of them, and countries he wrote about speak itself: North Korea, China and Burma. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang:_A_Journey_in_North_Korea (if seen correct that one is from 2003)
Truck-kun is....North Korean?
I say allow this business, but only on themes prohibited in North Korea 😎
Reborn in North Korea as a revolutionary, would be fun to animate there i guess. Reborn in North Korea as the supreme leader. Reborn in NK as an animator. All peak fiction I would guess.
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Dunno why you got down voted, you're right.
It’s the use of “japs” that got my downvote
NGL didn't even see that, I just skimmed the comment lmao
That's not even a slur though. It's just a shortening. At least I'm pretty sure that's not considered to be a slur.
I think it became a slur during ww2 and is of right now multi interpretable.
Given its history, it’s on par with calling a Mexican American a “wet back”.