Korea Taepung International Investment Group (Daepung Investment Group) – North Korean Economy Watch

Pictured above (Google Earth): April 2010 satellite imagery of the Kumgang tourist resort The Kumgang resort was receiving 400,000 visitors per year until in July 2008 it became the scene of a te...

https://www.nkeconwatch.com/2014/07/14/kumgang-status-update/

According to Yonhap: North Korea dissolved a well-known state-run company in charge of attracting foreign investment due to its unsatisfactory performance, South Korea’s Unification Ministry sa...

https://www.nkeconwatch.com/2013/02/01/taepung-international-investment-group-allegedly-dissolved/

Institute for Far Eastern Studies (IFES) 2012-7-27 The Beijing branch of the Joint Venture and Investment Committee of North Korea (JVIC), called the Choson Investment Office, announced on July 1...

https://www.nkeconwatch.com/2012/07/30/north-korea-presents-favorable-conditions-to-foreign-investors/

Institute for Far Eastern Studies (IFES) 2012-2-29 North Korea is likely to make an official announcement of its new economic development plan in April to commemorate the centennial anniversary o...

https://www.nkeconwatch.com/2012/03/01/north-korea-to-announce-new-economic-development-plan-and-organizational-restructuring/

According to Choson Exchange: As we mentioned recently, Ri Chol, the broker of the Orascom deal, has moved on from JVIC. Where he has gone is not yet certain, but the choice for his replacement i...

https://www.nkeconwatch.com/2012/02/13/choson-exchange-with-a-jvic-update/

Institute for Far Eastern Studies (IFES) 2011-10-13 North Korea’s Daepung International Investment Group, Ltd (Daepung Group) has announced its “Main Target Areas for Economic Development,”...

https://www.nkeconwatch.com/2011/10/14/daepung-international-investment-group-established-in-north-korea-goals-for-economic-development-from-2010-to-2020-set/

Pictured above, the DPRK’s local cola logo. Image source here. UPDATE 1: Stephan Haggard believes this is a non-story. ORIGINAL POST (2011-10-5): According to Forbes: Global capital is an inhe...

https://www.nkeconwatch.com/2011/10/05/dprk-courting-coca-coal/

According to Yonhap: North Korea unveiled Sunday its business plans to redevelop a troubled mountain resort in the isolated country, after seizing South Korean properties in the complex once cons...

https://www.nkeconwatch.com/2011/08/28/taepung-investment-group-outlines-new-kumgang-business-plan/

Geoffrey See and Andray Abrahamian (both representatives of Choson Exchange) wrote an article in the Harvard International Review which asserts that economic successes are becoming more import...

https://www.nkeconwatch.com/2011/08/28/economic-performance-and-legitimacy-in-the-dprk/

AEI Working Paper Nicholas Eberstadt Download PDF here his past January, for the first time in over two decades, Pyongyang has formally unveiled a new multi-year economic plan: a 10-year “strat...

https://www.nkeconwatch.com/2011/05/09/two-recent-papers-on-the-dprk/