Certainly it is costly if a large corporation has to hire a staff person to fill out government paperwork, but it is debilitating if the driving creative force of the business has to spend substantial time fighting through forms and regulations.
But having said that, if this gas line project proceeds as planned, then we would have to provide or compensate North Korea with a substantial amount of money or other forms of compensation.
The increases are especially strong for the substantial percentage of workers that were still documenting a house on site using paper forms and digital camera, and then entering data and uploading images into INSPI afterward via their laptops.