New PC gaming cafe photographed in North Korea — rare pictures of ‘Pyongyang PC bang’ gaming above the 38th parallel

Images purportedly showing a newly opened public PC gaming space in North Korea have been shared on social media. Technology enthusiast Iniysa shared photographs of a “North Korean PC bang” on X. A ‘PC bang’ translates as basically a ‘PC room’ and the term comes from South Korea, where it is widely used to refer to an ‘internet café’ or ‘electronic café’ where gaming is the main activity. There are thousands of PC bangs in South Korea, and they form a major part of the youth…