Ep. 28 Inside the North Korean Countryside; Korea's 5 (6) Famed Mountains
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- Опубликовано: 19 июл 2023
- In this 2-part episode, I delve into the North Korean countryside to give an overview on what the North Korean countryside has to offer. This first episode is all about mountains; North Korea's most famous mountain ranges. Indeed, of the 6 famous mountains on the Korean Peninsula - 5 of them lie in the northern half. So, there's a lot to cover!
A lot of this information was taken from Koryo Tours' North Korea Travel Guides section, a comprehensive online travel guide into North Korea.
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Links from the show;
Aim High in Creation Watch & Competition - koryostudio.com/films/aim-hig... / koryostudio.com/blog/Aim-High...
Paektusan - koryogroup.com/travel-guide/m...
Chilbosan - koryogroup.com/travel-guide/m...
Kuwolsan - koryogroup.com/travel-guide/m...
Myohyangsan - koryogroup.com/travel-guide/m...
Kumgangsan - koryogroup.com/travel-guide/m...
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Not sure how to add a comment to my Spotify review of the podcast / if that's even possible. Just wanted to say I gave 5 stars and recommend the podcast to anyone interested in North Korea or even just different places and cultures. I am still on the fence as to whether I would consider going there or not, at least as things stand now, but I really don't get people who automatically dislike this podcast or accuse you of things. You have explained why you can't go into detail on some topics and what the focus of the podcast is. I appreciate being able to learn more about North Korean people and places. So thanks, I always look forward to the podcast! :)
Aww thank you so much! It means a lot! On Spotify as far as I'm aware you can't leave a comment, but on Apple podcasts you can! I understand the people that leave the bad reviews, I suppose they must have just come across the podcast and not really understand the idea behind it. I might have to do a more elaborate introduction or something like that! Thank you once again :D
Zoe, Glad to see you posting videos again on DPRK. They are always interesting!
thank you!!!
As questions:
In the DPRK countryside, are there opportunities to actually focus on either fauna or fauna - as contrasted with geological features, landscapes or water features ? For example, are there opportunities to go to an area in which one could go fruitfully birdwatching for a week ? Or observe and focus on an area with a Eurasian otter group for a week ? Or go to an actively worked paleontology site ?
In the DPRK countryside, are there opportunities to engage in skilled artisanal or agricultural activities - such as beekeeping or grape wine orchard tasks associated with winemaking ? Or participate in an archeological dig ?
1. Yes - if it's there and avabilable as an area to visit as a tourist and that's your interest, we can help organise such a specialist tour but these are very very expensive. For academics there on a trip of course they have more access too. But there are limitations depending on the area it is in etc.
2. There used to be rice planting offered as part of the trip but the Koreans found it more of a hindrance than a help so... there is certainly potential for more tourist things like at the vineyard though, will certainly keep that one in mind!
@@ZoeDiscovers thank you. It does seem disappointing that birdwatching and similar activities are so expensive in the DPRK.
@@charlesk1089 Yes, the reason for this is the lack of numbers, unfortunately. Conducting specialist tours like this isn't difficult - but without at least 10 or so people who can make the same date and who are interested then these tours have to be very expensive unfortunately...
Heyyyy I Love your content, but gotta ask. Could you maybe talk about romance, dating and marriage in DPRK? I'm really curious
Ahh love this topic! OK sure, consider it added to the list!
@@ZoeDiscovers Oh!! Nice. Thank you for noticiing and I'm really glad you like this topic, because I thought no one else did it. I mean there are answers but, either not satisfying enough, or what I like to call "Another North Korea true facts 100%". Which more or less tells nothing, or just spreads stereotypes, which is ok, but feels very wrong in the reality. I have done a lot of research, on the DPRK overall and got into some helpful things, and useless crap. I'm soooo curious about this country, it's just magical how, one place on the entire earth can be so interesting.
PS: I hope I don't have to say, I don't care about politics and media image, because yeah, not trustworthy, or something I heard thousand times.
Oh and also I would Love to visit North Korea someday
I am highly interested in the mountains I see such beauty in them and to visit Great Leader Comrade Kim Il-Sung Village. Do forigners ever get the ability to see the military parades? I seen one that Respected Leader Kim Jong-Un had with such lights, paratroopers, and jets doing acrobatics it was so cool. I'm highly interested in your travels and wish you and ALL KOREANS good health and happiness and peace.
Yes foreigners can see military parades if you are able to catch it - the information for them comes out very last minute and foreigners are not permitted in the main Kim Il Sung Square area.
This is kind of off-topic but I was watching one of your Pyongyang hotel videos earlier and it reminded me of multiple ‘disturbing’ stories heard from people (mostly Asians) who visited those hotels before. Several security guards on each floor, so many mirrors in the room. Somebody said they lost their camera from the room. Others said they were talking in the room with the windows open and they saw them all shut when they came back from lunch, or they had coffee delivered to their room minutes after casually talking about coffee in the room. These events may suggest that the hotels are under surveillance and private conversations are intercepted. What’s your position on this? Do you think this is rather political and never the case with people from the West? I am Japanese so I don’t happen to step into North Korea, but I still find these stories quite unnerving.
Yes I think it's predispositioned paranoia we get from visiting the DPRK. The "security guards" on the hotel floor you're talking about are hotel staff; there to assist you if you need anything. Much like you might find in various more up-market hotels in other countries. The window open in the room is a potential security risk - all the PY windows in the hotels now are generally closed shut; this is due to previous suicides. If the guests managed to open their window and a hotel staff walked in, then they probably decided it's best to close them. Or, it could have been the cleaner throughout the day who goes in and then closes it - someting anyone would have done imo. The coffee, just a nice room service?
It's easy to explain all these things in the North Korea context - yes, they're spying on your every move... But let me ask you this. If they're secretly spying on you and listening to your conversation, you think they'd give that away by bringing you some coffee the minute you start asking for it?
Besides, trust me. The North Koreans have much bigger things on their minds to be spying on western tourists. We are really not that important. I have never once found a hotel bug in my room and I've stayed for probably over 100 nights there.
Are you tonnage talk about the recent US military PV2 defecting to North korea
Yes I mention it
@@ZoeDiscovers would you visit transnistria?
@@zironthegamer i'd love to
I'm intrigued with your journey, and reluctant to be too participatory, for hypersensitivity sake #CarryOn
Fair enough..!