Elementary and middle education in India is exactly the same... due to severe budget cuts public education at that level is terrible and most who can afford it settle for private schooling. It's flipped in higher education, although with BJP neoliberalism the public schools have been raising tuition and having funding cut as well (although they are still massively cheaper than private universities).
I can't speak for China, but in India we have a similar system where those who do well on exams gain admission into top public schools and those who don't have to settle for a private school which isn't as selective but more expensive. As far as I know the private schools are really just backup plans for those who can afford it and aren't very prestigious compared to the public schools.
Although the film had a lot of influence from Koryo Tours watching it is a really good insight into DPRK's socialist culture. Despite it being a romance movie it's super duper conservative compared to Western romance movies, which I found pretty nice.
Uriminzokkiri and DPRK Today were part of that wave. However I tried to go on Yaegihaja a few months before the purge and yaegihaja was down while Uriminzokkiri was still up.
Searching around apparently a user named PropagandaBot@lemmygrad.ml posted a link from Yaegihaja about 2 years ago but it seems that their account is inactive.
Coal miners, heavy industry workers, and women caring for children get 6 hour workdays, the majority of workers get 8 hours for a 48 hour workweek, although this is balanced by increased holidays
It balances out the fact that they don't have Saturdays off (lots of conflicting information, some say it's a full workday, some say it's half, some say it's a day reserved for political education and civil duties".
Price data in DPRK is hard to find. The best I could do was to use sources like NKNews which have a history of inflating prices. Some of the prices have more reliable sources though.
I read DPRK news daily, I know how to access it. I'm just asking about NK News's motives. Also, I'm pretty sure uriminzokkiri got taken down after Kim Jong-Un abandoned the unification policy.
Liberalization was around August I believe so the crisis you linked wasn't a direct result of the liberalization. Its evils took a while to accumulate, but I know family members whose former prosperous factory cities have become ghost towns due to deindustrialization after the License Raj ended.
Of course, the DPRK is a small economy but don't get confused with Western GDP measures. A lot of times, due to the state subsidies and the fact that socialist currencies can't really be exchanged for global/western ones at a fixed rate the GDP rates are severely underestimated. Officially the KPW to USD ratio is 8000:1 but a lot of things you'd get for a dollar in USA you'd get for maybe 500KPW in the DPRK, as well as the added effect of subsidies. When China opened up it immediately had a gigantic growth in GDP figures, not because of actual economic growth (that came later) but because the Renminbi was market tradable and the RMB to USD rate was now more accurate.
But yes I agree that the DPRK having a small economy does have an impact.
Also oops, I suck at percentages. Fixed.
After liberalization destroyed the little industry India had developed during state capitalism we basically had nothing to offer the world except for cheap software engineers.
Elementary and middle education in India is exactly the same... due to severe budget cuts public education at that level is terrible and most who can afford it settle for private schooling. It's flipped in higher education, although with BJP neoliberalism the public schools have been raising tuition and having funding cut as well (although they are still massively cheaper than private universities).