SiliBank
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SiliBank (Chinese: 實利銀行, Shili Yinhang; Korean: 실리은행, Silli Ŭnhaeng) is a financial institution based in Shenyang, Liaoning, China, closely related to the North Korea.
The name "sili" (實利)means "true profit" in both Chinese and Korean.
In 2001 the bank began offering a limited electronic mail relay service to and from North Korea, where Internet access is limited. Along with Chesin.com, SiliBank appears to be one of only two e-mail gateways to DPRK.
SiliBank maintains dedicated servers in Pyongyang and Shenyang, between which e-mail transmissions are exchanged once every 10 minutes (when the service commenced, this was hourly).
As of May 10, 2003, the fee for sending an e-mail to North Korea from abroad, was 10 Eurocents per kilobyte for up to 40 kilobytes, and 0.2 Eurocents for each additional kilobyte in each e-mail transmission.[citation needed] The minimum charge per e-mail was 1 Euro. Customers must first pre-register with SiliBank with prepayment for estimated usage over a three-month period. SiliBank only allows e-mail relay between registered users of the service.
[edit] External links
- SiliBank official site (in English, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Japanese)
- Website offers email links to N. Korea (The New York Times,November 1, 2001)
- North Korea opens door to e-mail (IT World, November 6, 2001)
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