North Korea KCTV Testcard

[sexualita900]

어떤 테스트 카드, 내가 더 나은 여자도 봤어!

[MegaWildside]

Face it, North Korea is a living hell on earth

[zhoujianyu1997]

North Korea is in a big trouble now.

[calisse245]

Gee in Canada until late 70's early 80's they had that Indian Chiefs head !!!! Hey thats great TV better than those lousy sluts u see on those channels at night here in Europe, ugly prostitutes with tattoos, real lowlives and exploiting poor suckers... Long live DPRK

[darwincity]

@calisse245 You could say the same thing about US TV. Night Quizzes are the norm in terms of night programming. Oh well, at least some eccentric countries have decided to keep the good ol' testcard!

[jotenko]

@darwincity here in Portugal is the same. TV night quizzes, with hot chicks presenting. At least that.

[Emigdiosback]

@Martbd can't wait till homefront comes out.

[jotenko]

No. Fucking. Way.

[JFredUK]

I'm surprised they have colour, never mind an electonically generated test card. Obviously copied from other test cards from around the world. A bit like everything else they have.

[Schlipperschlopper]

That is old German TV test picture of ARD / ZDF of the 70s GREAT!!!!

[ClaireMarieJonasx]

That is a freaking scary tune. How horrible and depressing.

[tehDalahast]

@ClaireMarieJonasx It's the first ten notes of their "Song of General Kim Il-sung".

[Surebreon]

They play the same tune on their number stations, apparently.

[moerla]

The sound of terror as morning's coming.

[jotenko]

@moerla morning? 5pm you mean! LOL

[Luc1f3rk0]

Where did you received it?

[rtbvhsrip]

They have a nice character generator font... And a custom testcard :) I thought, they'd be using 5x7 dot-matrix fonts like in ex-GDR or even 7-segment style clocks (Germany democratic republic = East germany) ;)

[SanMiguelBeer1890]

to uploader: do you have a video of a test card of south korea just like MBC and KBS?

[SMGJohn]

LOL! It's like traveling back in time when you enter North Korea, O if i was the leader OOO i would make the place even better! And create computers with their own internet!

[SanMiguelBeer1890]

ya. but i want North to be like China

[1prouddemocrat]

@SanMiguelBeer1890 I want North Korea to be like AMERICA!

[AtheismCentral]

@SMGJohn they have there own internet (facepalm)

[SMGJohn]

@AtheismCentral Yes of course they have their own internet... But only for business people and internet cafe with restricted internet. Nothing like YouTube and FacePalm (aka FaceBook)

[AtheismCentral]

@SMGJohn

You came up with that off of the top of your head. Where is your burden of proof? I have one, video evidence exists of North Korean using the internet, people have laptops and PC's, and the internet is not restricted. You are so brainwashed you probally think Kim Jong Il is God there, he is not, he is Chairman of the workers party and has to follow the law like everyone else.

[SMGJohn]

@AtheismCentral What? Your God is Kim Jong fakking Il!? Good for you.

Anwyay, it's restricted you imbecile, internet is not even layed out in half of North Korea. Have you been in North Korea? There is neither wireless. Getting internet is not simple as you think.

You need huge transmitters with wide ranges and huge antenas to take in internet from space satellites. And then again distrubate this because the signal is coded

[leavantgarage]

@AtheismCentral Are you stupid? We'd notice if North Koreans were using the internet without restrictions. The facts of the matter are that they are not. And no, Kim Jong Il IS God there. You don't have to be brainwashed to know that (just watch more clips from KCTV or of Voice of Korea, if you insist all documentaries are propaganda), you just have to not be retarded. Stalinists like you should be disgusted with yourselves for promoting tyranny in the name of a worker's paradise.

[denelson83]

Then again, all of North Korea is still living in the past.

[SanMiguelBeer1890]

ya. but i want North to be like China

[SMGJohn]

Ya maybe but if they are gonna be so closed they can at least create their own equipment like cars PC's and such

[lukasm14]

@SMGJohn Internet is illegal in North Korea anyway

[martbd]

@lukasm14 The thing will happen in the US. 

[plainspoken]

NO WAAAAAAAAAY!

[interest547]

This interval signal sound is available at the international service of KCB (short wave).

[MrUnidyne]

@interest547 The interval signal can also be heard at the start of Voice of Korea shortwave broadcasts.

[interest547]

If possible, visit me. Now collecting.

(Japan, Taiwan, China, Korea ....)

"interest547" is special focused channel for test pattern, program ID, CM and so on.

[mukatuna]

A somewhat modified Philips PM5544 test pattern.

[filiprogue]

we have same thing on first channel at nights in Poland, but without sound.

[tawansweden]

Yes! There is! It's beeeeeeeep!

The "Without Sound" is really 9 years ago.

AND it's not the same! It have the date and it's more beautiful than this.

[fun17092008]

Real

[betomiyazaki]

it sounds like the Voice Of Korea, external shortwave radio service interval

[denelson83]

Of course... The text at the top of the screen simply says "Pyong'yang", the capital.

[BionicCommander89]

The TV starts at 5 PM! Wow... Anyways, why bother starting earlier if all the programming is Communist propaganda...

[huaqing]

Maybe the regime wants everyone to work before 5pm...and only watch programmes after 5pm...lol

[tirana3000]

@ThaiBeyond02

hi

i want to be able to get it too here in Albania

can you tell me how. pls skype: tirana3000

[ThaiBeyond02]

@tirana3000 3541 H 3367 i think.

[RTVPauenca]

year?

[betomiyazaki]

it looks recently , could be from this year

[Satdirectory]

This is the current KCTV testcard. During the day North Korean TV simply displays colour bars with no text or identification. 30 minutes before the broadcast sign-on the test card comes up with North Korean popular music playing. At one minute to the start of the broadcast they play the tune in this clip - yes it is the same as the Voice of Korea interval signal.