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SiliBank Wikipedia

SiliBank (Chinese: Shili Yinhang; Korean: Sil-ri Eun-haeng) is a financial institution based in Shenyang, Liaoning, People's Republic of China|China, closely related to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

The name "sili" (Pinyin|Hanyu Pinyin: shili Revised Romanization of Korean|SK Romanization: sil-ri) means "true profit" in both Chinese language|Chinese and Korean language|Korean.

In 2001 the bank began offering a limited electronic mail relay service to and from North Korea where Internet access with outside is limited. Along with Chesin.com, SiliBank appears to be one of only two e-mail gates 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).

The fee for sending an e-mail to North Korea from abroad (as of May 10,2003) costs 10 Eurocent|Eurocents per kilobyte for up to 40 kilobytes, and 0.2 Eurocents for each additional kilobyte in each e-mail transmission. The minimum charge per e-mail is 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 this service.

Last Modified:   2005-11-04