North Korean middle schoolers flock to buy MP7 and MP8 learning devices as status symbols

North Korean middle schoolers flock to buy MP7 and MP8 learning devices as status symbols

Electronic study aids priced at $97–$138 become student “necessities” in Hamhung as parents see them as cheaper alternatives to private tutors costing up to $41 monthly per subject. A source in South Hamgyong province told Daily NK recently that many graduating middle school students set to enter high school “have electronic learning devices,” and that marketplaces “are doing a brisk trade in not only MP7s and MP8s, but also SD cards for learni…