Sep 2, 2026 · 12 min · 7 segments
Do you wanna hear about a weird gaming console? North Korea made its own version of the Nintendo Wii, and in this classic episode, Tegan tells Rae all about it. 👀 WHO ARE WE? Weird Tech is a Weird…
Tegan JonesHost
Rae JohnstonHost
All of that to say, this is how I came across the North Korean Wii clone, which is called the Morinbong, which is after a famous hill in Pyongyang, which is the capital of North Korea.
I don't believe at the time of the Wii, the whole thing with North Korean tech, it's obviously always quite behind.
But it was really part of this sort of effort to broaden the effort of their kind of homegrown technology, even though it's not quite homegrown, but we'll get to that.
So that ended up being used for a whole bunch of applications that weren't even gaming.
And if you go into any of the QT range of hotels, they use Kinect to, to detect how many people are in the lift and will play a song that is based on the number of people.
So it might be like three's a crowd or a song about two people getting together or one is the loneliest number.
All of that to say, this is how I came across the North Korean Wii clone, which is called the Morinbong, which is after a famous hill in Pyongyang, which is the capital of North Korea.
I don't believe at the time of the Wii, the whole thing with North Korean tech, it's obviously always quite behind.
But it was really part of this sort of effort to broaden the effort of their kind of homegrown technology, even though it's not quite homegrown, but we'll get to that.
So that ended up being used for a whole bunch of applications that weren't even gaming.
And if you go into any of the QT range of hotels, they use Kinect to, to detect how many people are in the lift and will play a song that is based on the number of people.
So it might be like three's a crowd or a song about two people getting together or one is the loneliest number.
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