A group of North Koreans has joined an entrepreneurship program in Malaysia, a Singapore-based organization said, marking a rare exchange for the socialist country.

Choson Exchange, an organization that provides various workshops to North Koreans, on Friday said the group recently attended courses on Malaysia's efforts to improve entrepreneurship and startups, adding that the attendees had "tons of questions."

"The Koreans showed lots of interest in how MDEC acted as a one-stop shop for tech investments in the early days and how they established this process," Choson Exchange said. MDEC is the acronym for the Multimedia Development Corp., a state-run organization in Malaysia that manages the development of the tech industry.

The group also visited a water park in Malaysia, and learned about property development and fostering a tourist attraction. (Yonhap)