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The
Korea Computer Center
(
KCC
) is the
North Korean
government
information technology
research center. It was founded on 24 October 1990.
[1]
KCC, which administered the
.kp
country code
top-level domain
until 2011, employs more than 1,000 people.
[2]
KCC operates eight development and production centers, as well as eleven regional information centers. It runs the
KCC Information Technology College
and its Information Technology Institute. The KCC has branch offices in
China
,
Germany
,
Syria
and the
United Arab Emirates
. It has an interest in
Linux
research and started the development of the
Red Star OS
distribution localised for North Korea.
[1]
KCC is a part of the political establishment and not entirely an IT company
per se
. Its technological state and general modernity are seen as lagging well behind the rest of the world, even with the general
zeitgeist
in
North Korea
. For example, the
.kp
ccTLD
was registered in 2007, but KCC did not manage to get a working registry for three years, despite the support of a European company. KCC has still not implemented a working
ccTLD
infrastructure, something the
North Korean government
has had as a goal for several years.
While KCC mainly works on projects within North Korea, it has since 2001 served clients in
Europe
,
China
,
South Korea
,
Japan
, and the
Middle East
.
[3]
[4]
It operates
Naenara
, North Korea's official web portal.
Nosotek
is another North Korean IT venture company that develops computer games; two of them were published by
News Corporation
.
[5]
Another such company is the
Pyongyang Information Center
.
[6]
In early 2015, the KCC was reorganized, with all functions not related to the development of Red Star OS being transferred to other entities.
[7]
Products
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- "Sam heug"
search engine
[1]
- "
Naenara
" web browser
[1]
- "Chosun Jang-Gi", a computer game
[1]
- Kwangmyong
, North Korea's closed national intranet
[1]
- "
Korean Dishes
" (Chos?n ryori), a food-related website
[1]
- "Hana", a Korean language
input method editor
[1]
- "Koryo", English-Korean/Korean-English translation software using an
electronic pen
[1]
- "Nunbora", a Korean language voice recognition software
[1]
- "Pulgunbyol" (
Red Star OS
), a Linux distribution
[1]
- "Cyber Friend", a video conference system
[1]
- "Cyber Star", an electronic education system
[1]
- "SilverStar Paduk", a
Go
computer game
[1]
- "HMS Player", a media player
[1]
- Samjiyon
tablet
[8]
[9]
See also
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References
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External links
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