Sili Bank

Sili Bank is a company based in North Korea. The company provides email services in both China and North Korea by maintaining dedicated servers running Windows Server 2003 in both countries. Established in September 12, 2001,[1] Sili Bank also known as the Korea 626 Shenyang Co. is a financial institution based in Chilbosan/Qibaoshan Hotel (Chinese: 七宝山饭店) in North Korea.

Sili Bank
IndustryIT
FoundedSeptember 12, 2001
Headquarters
North Korea
Area served
North Korea, China
ParentWorkers Party of Korea
Websiteweb.archive.org/web/20141218100818/http://silibank.com/
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese實利銀行
Simplified Chinese实利银行
Literal meaningTrue Profit Bank
Korea 626 Shenyang Co.
Traditional Chinese朝鮮626技術服辦所瀋務陽事處
Simplified Chinese朝鲜626技术务沈所服阳办事处
Japanese name
Kanji実利銀行

Etymology

The name sili (Chinese: 實利) means "true profit" in both Chinese and Korean.

Services

In 2001, it was initially limited to those who want to exchange e-mails with trade companies or government agencies. As of May 10, 2003, the fee for sending an e-mail to North Korea from abroad, was 0.1 euros per kilobyte for up to 40 kilobytes, and 0.02 euros for each additional kilobyte in each e-mail transmission.[2] The minimum charge per e-mail was 1 euro (for an e-mail having a size up to 10 kilobytes). Customers must first pre-register with Sili Bank with prepayment for estimated usage over a three-month period to the webmaster Li Mingchun (Chinese: 李明春). Sili Bank only allows e-mail relay between registered users of the service.[3]

North Korea

Since October 8, 2001, the webmail provider began offering a limited electronic mail relay service to and from North Korea, where Internet access is limited.[4] Along with Chesin.com, star-co.net.kp, Sili Bank appears to be one of the three e-mail gateways to DPRK.


See also
  • Communications in North Korea

References
  1. 북한의 국어 정보화. hangeulmuseum.org (in Korean). Retrieved May 8, 2014.[ ]
  2. "n/a". Archived from the original on November 1, 2006. Retrieved May 8, 2014.
  3. "n/a". Archived from the original on March 15, 2005. Retrieved May 8, 2014.
  4. "La Corée du Nord teste un service e-mail [02/11/2001]". multimedia.dna.fr (in French). Retrieved May 8, 2014.
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