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<span style=" font-family:'Arial'; font-size: 12pt;">Dear colleagues,<br>
as Koreanists you might be interested in my rather extensive (16pp) review of the North Korean tablet computer Samjiyon SA-70. What fascinates me is not so much the hardware and all the technical magic like speech-to-text, but rather the contents and the utility as a tool for research on Korea. To give you an idea, on my tablet (they might all differ a bit) there are a total of 488 preinstalled books and reference works including a nearly complete set of schoolbooks, the inevitable collected works of the leaders etc. All in Korean of course, which implies that the tablet was made for the domestic market. <br>
Read the review here: </span><a style=" font-family:'arial'; font-size: 12pt;" href="http://38north.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/SamjiyonProductReview_RFrank102213-2.pdf">http://38north.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/SamjiyonProductReview_RFrank102213-2.pdf</a><br>
<span style=" font-family:'Arial'; font-size: 12pt;">My best wishes,<br>
Rudiger<br>
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<span style=" font-size: 8pt; color: #c0c0c0;"><i>-- <br>
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Rudiger Frank<br>
Head of Department<br>
Professor of East Asian Economy and Society<br>
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Acting President, Asian Politics and History Association<br>
Vice President, Association for Korean Studies in Europe<br>
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University of Vienna<br>
Department of East Asian Studies<br>
Spitalgasse 2 Hof 2.3<br>
1090 Vienna<br>
- Austria -<br>
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phone: +43-1-4277 43871<br>
fax: +43-1-4277 43849<br>
web: </i></span></span><a style=" font-family:'arial';" href="http://wirtschaft.ostasien.univie.ac.at">http://wirtschaft.ostasien.univie.ac.at</a><br>
<span style=" font-family:'arial'; color: #c0c0c0;"><i>email: </i></span><a style=" font-family:'arial';" href="mailto:ruediger.frank@univie.ac.at">ruediger.frank@univie.ac.at</a></body></html>