The Desire To Watch South Korean Soap Operas On TV
They seem to like how exciting everything is. South Korean soap operas have found an audience in Cuba that they didn’t expect.
Korean soap operas have a bigger fan base than more traditional Latin American “telenovelas” from Brazil and Mexico because they mix humor, action, and romance in a low-key way. Michael Voss, a reporter for CCTV America, went all the way to Havana to cover this story.
Cubans Began Using Computers In 2008
During the 1990s, it became illegal to buy many kinds of electrical goods. This happened when the Soviet Union broke up, which caused Cuba to lose a lot of money in the form of subsidies and gasoline supplies.
In Cuba, only foreigners and companies can buy computers, and tape decks were taken away at the airport until 2008 when rules about border control were relaxed. Now Cubans will be able to easily get them, but they will have to pay for them in foreign currency, either CUCs or redeemable pesos, which are 24 times more valuable than the Cuban pesos used to pay state wages.