Kaesong Industrial Region | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-03

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00:03:06 1 Kaesong Industrial Park
00:03:40 1.1 Initial phase
00:04:16 1.2 The planned final phase
00:04:58 1.3 Organization
00:06:09 1.4 Firms Operating within the Park
00:07:29 1.5 Obstacles
00:07:53 1.6 Wage and rent agreements
00:08:50 1.7 Taxes and revenue
00:10:11 1.7.1 Green Doctors
00:10:45 1.8 iCheonan/i incident
00:11:18 1.9 2013 closure and reopening
00:14:34 1.10 2016 closure
00:19:14 1.11 2018 opening of Inter Korean Liaison Office
00:19:40 1.12 Restoration of Water Supply
00:20:06 2 Transport
00:20:21 2.1 Rail
00:21:02 2.2 Road
00:21:47 2.3 Air
00:22:23 3 2018 Agreement to Restore Region
00:23:19 4 See also



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The Kaesong Industrial Region (KIR) or Kaesong Industrial Zone (KIZ) is a special administrative industrial region of North Korea (DPRK). It was formed in 2002 from part of the Kaesong Directly-Governed City. On 10 February 2016, it was temporarily closed by the South Korean government and all staff recalled by the Park Geun-hye administration, although the incumbent President of South Korea, Moon Jae-in, has signalled his desire to "reopen and expand" the region.Its most notable feature is the Kaesong industrial park, operated as a collaborative economic development with South Korea (ROK). The park is located ten kilometres (six miles) north of the Korean Demilitarized Zone, an hour's drive from Seoul, with direct road and rail access to South Korea. The park allows South Korean companies to employ cheap labour that is educated, skilled, and fluent in Korean, whilst providing North Korea with an important source of foreign currency.As of  April 2013, 123 South Korean companies were employing approximately 53,000 DPRK workers and 800 ROK staff. Their wages, totalling $90 million each year, had been paid directly to the North Korean government.At times of tension between North and South Korea, southern access to the Industrial Park has been restricted. On 3 April 2013, during the 2013 Korean crisis, North Korea blocked access to the region to all South Korean citizens. On 8 April 2013, the North Korean government removed all 53,000 North Korean workers from the Kaesong industrial park, which effectively shut down all activities. On 15 August 2013, both countries agreed that the industrial park should be reopened.On 10 February 2016, the South Korean Ministry of Unification announced that the industrial park would be "temporarily" closed down and all staff recalled, partly in protest over continued North Korean provocations, including a satellite launch and a claimed hydrogen bomb test in January 2016. The next day, the North announced it was expelling all South Korean workers and said it will freeze all South Korean assets and equipment at the jointly run factory park. All 280 South Korean workers present at Kaesong left hours after the announcement by the North. In 2018, plans were made to restore the region