Development of Television under Kim Jong Il

80s DPRK TV-equipment and studios
Excerpt from a documentary about Kim Jong Il on Korean Central Television (KCTV)

[@1337BananaL33TVostok]

Wow they used good cameras for this.

[@parasatc8183]

Good cameras for the early 90s at least. This was, however, broadcast sometime after 2006. Hell, this even looks like it fits 90s professional standards in China.

[@HazelTheHare]

@@parasatc8183 Probably because it was shot on film and not videotape

[@ampersandman757]

A lot of people forget that the DPRK had a better economy and standard of living than the South in the 60s and 70s and that they still had their shit together in the 80s

[@askyourfather]

They actually use good camera for this.

[@G1CAAAAEO]

@Duffy63 They were 'fine' because they were totally dependent on China and the Soviet Union. But who cares they were doing relatively fine in the '60-'70s economically, it always has been a totalitarian regime with no respect for any human rights. That's more important than economics.

[@ignoblesurfer6281]

Jong-Il was a big film buff and fancied himself as a director. I bet he offered lots of "on-the-spot guidance" to the professionals.

[@askyourfather]

Full name of this documentary is “빛나는 삶의 품 24 : 영생의 은인”

[@scienceandcivilization]

where can i find the full video? this HD is amazing...

[@SC-vj4wv]

Kim Jong Il was a huge film buff, so this may have been a passion project for him.

[@firefirefire3277]

He even had a lot of collections of Hollywood films, his most favorite being James Bond movies

[@christopherhulse8385]

I understand they still run analogue tv on VHF.

[@NEOM80]

From what I understand not really, at least the overseas signals www.lyngsat.com/tvchannels/kp/Korean-Central-TV.html

[@matejnosal3937]

From 2021, they are changing to DVB-T2 and turning off SD variants of channels, since they got HD for all stations in 2017

[@CoreyFuimaono]

Have you got the full version of this by chance?

[@florenciachapa699]

I don't know what sounds creepier, her voice or the music

[@songuntavarish3895]

None of the two, sounds great.

[@globovisionuttpthdtc3317]

no it’s not creepy

[@ب_ب-ج4ك]

your pfp

[@ИванКорнилов-у7ю]

Music is buetifull!

[@northkoreakp834]

thank you for your video.. nice to see this

[@shanuerhalizant]

Yang mengumumkan Kim Il Sung Wafat ya Mr. Chon Hongkyu. Bukan Mrs. Ri Chun He. RI Chun He yang mengumumkan wafatnya Kim Jong Il.

[@parasatc8183]

Apparently this broadcast was from sometime in or after 2004.

[@parasatc8183]

Good Lord what a bad estimate I made. The newest gravestone on this footage is from 2006. At that point they may have been using 20 year old camera equipment at the least.

[@Ciniu]

@@parasatc8183 In the description it is written that it comes from the eighties, and Kim Jong Il looks young. I would have to be an idiot to believe this is from 2006. Even NK is not that backward.

[@parasatc8183]

@@Ciniu 1:55

[@Ciniu]

@@parasatc8183 OK, sorry; actually, NK was a little too retro then. Nevertheless, the quality of scans from old cameras is excellent.

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

@@Ciniu TV and broadcasting has seen a major upgrade under Kim Jong Un. He apparently never liked the dated film format you see here and China have upgraded quite a lot of modern broadcast gear. Some of the original footage of Kim Jong Un from early 2012 looks like it's from 1985 because the equipment was absolute crap. He seems to have had all that changed.

[@luizmarxsenjr]

Thomson THT 629 and Bosch Fernseh KCK-40 cameras??? Sure North Korea adopted some 625 lines 50 fields television standard, do someone can tell me the exact TV standard that they choose???

[@RichterBelmont02]

PAL or SECAM.

[@angelfoto4795]

And looks like a NEC NC-30 at 2:19

[@medjerab5]

00:57 He looks like kostas xountas [Κώστασ Χουντασ] (a Greek news anchor) . What is his name ? (the north Korean news anchor)

[@稗田高千穗]

His name is Chon, Hyongkyu(1934-2006). He was former KCTV anchor, who famous for announcing the death of Kim Il Sung.

[@Bobbydonothing]

Kim just looks like 50 yo chinese woman

[@revolutionarykoreanmusic8557]

The song in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4C6ZJ9qlqyfrqs

[@cengizhanyilmaz61]

1080 p?

[@Vladius32itf]

Cengizhan YILMAZ this is an old film.

[@Vladius32itf]

OskBox LIVE Kim Chong Il hadn't lived to starting of HDTV broadcast.

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

@@Vladius32itf At home he was probably watching all the foreign HDTV broadcasts he could ever want. It's know that Kim Jong Il watched Russian and South Korean TV and also liked to surf South Korean websites. Russia and South Korea have been broadcasting in HD since forever and the Kim family could easily import a modern HDTV to watch it on. The TV would probably be Japanese (Sony or Panasonic) or South Korean (Samsung or LG) - meanwhile the regular North Korean plebs would have Chinese knockoff crap.

[@balistixmapping197]

Good facility tho

[@johannapfelburg6286]

Lemme guess who gave them all that... The Chinese?

[@MrProfesorek15]

the chinese gave DPRK the TV equipment in 2012.

[@MattSuguisAsFondAsEverrr]

that's right lmao

[@hanbyol19]

Wonderful video quality! Kim Jong Il was truly a gifted man, he commanded every art and field of society and culture.

[@user-ry9tc5iu2c]

1980년대 조선중앙tv 모습

[@northmexic]

🇲🇽Viva la República popular democrática de corea 🇰🇵조선민주주의인민공화국 만세

[@pezzi3277]

😱

[@RealKynan]

Does anyone know what the song at 2:50 is?

[@revolutionarykoreanmusic8557]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpWliYitepl1pa8 Here it is.

[@galgoman1026]

cual es el temita de fondo q se escucha? es un temazo

[@brianshields985]

Do they show The Brady Bunch?

[@StepDownFSAAndRojava]

💀

[@RavenholmZombie]

My old high school's media production program had better cameras than this. Granted my high school's cameras were camcorders, but still. They had better video and audio quality than this. Hell, they're still probably better than the KCNA's A/V equipment today.

[@izumisagiri]

NK has better equipmen now. They broadcast in HD via satellite

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

@@izumisagiri It was all upgraded under Kim Jong Un because he apparently didn't like the old film format you see here and wanted something a bit more modern and Westernised. Some of the early footage of Kim Jong Un in 2011 and 2012 looks like it was filmed in the 80s because the cinematography was so dated. China have donated a lot of quite decent broadcasting equipment and it's all slowly becoming more modern.

[@svenbenglen7599]

this video was shot on film

[@IlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlI]

Most of the material shown is from the 60s-80s

[@Foebane72]

I want to hear ENGLISH, not GIBBERISH!

[@hanbyol19]

Then go listening the CNN, English is not the only language in the world you filthy racist.

[@seabreezeoceandreams]

This is a Korean documentary, of course they're going to speak Korean 😒

[@user-ry9tc5iu2c]

당시 조선중앙tv 여자아나운서 아니 여자방송원들은 하나같이 뚱뚱하고 아줌마같았음.

[@dthe6662]

그건 저고리때문에 그랬을거임

[@user-ry9tc5iu2c]

아닙니다. 한복안입고 양장착용했을때에도 그랬어요.