From the Fertile Crescent that is Silicon Valley, to the vibrant middle powers of London and Tel Aviv, to the emerging unknowns of Lagos and Nairobi, there are startup scenes in hundreds of cities across the globe. One place you’d never expect to find a startup scene, however, is North Korea, but with the blessing of the country’s almighty government, a group of a dozen or so North Koreans are working to change that. The group has been travelling across Southeast Asia with the intention of learning how startup life works, and how they can bring that knowledge back to North Korea in order to create a startup scene of their own within the country.
