Netflix have been named as winners of a bidding war that saw them win the rights to show the hit Korean show, Kim’ll Fix It.
The show started life when Kim would travel around North Korea on official business. Typically he would arrive at a factory or collective farm and advise how to best increase productivity. This led to North Koreans writing to Kim and asking him to come and fix all manner of things.
In one memorable episode a worker had written to Kim to tell him that the productivity of the tractor factory he worked at had gone down. Kim turned up and fixed the factory by having its management shot and replaced by the man who had written in.
Another memorable episode shows a young boy whose wish was to see a rocket launch. Cameras show the boy being taken to a rocket launch site and him excitedly witnessing the launch. The boy is then despatched with a bullet in the back of the head as the launch site is top secret.
In a different episode to mark revolution day Kim is seen reuniting a woman with her family. The woman relates how her family disappeared one night before being drive to meet them with Kim. The family are then gassed in the gulag where the meeting takes place.
A spokesman for the North Korean Government said, “Kim has fixed all manner of things in the show. From faulty plumbing in a school that was the fault of imperialist saboteurs to Apollo 13. Viewers will find there is no end to the variety of things Kim fixes.”
People who appear on the show get given a medal as a momento of their time. The medal is placed around their necks by Kim who then makes them explode.
