$5 the US makes no sense. I bet when you look at industry it's nonsensical. Shorts and shirts factories next to car manufacturers. I bet you can see we do not work we mostly sell.
I was literally outisde 10 minutes ago and thinking how great it is that in my eastern European country Soviet planning allows quiet spaces just 100 meters away from major crossroads and whatnot
well i live in a former yugoslav state and because of how underfunded and in some places non existent public transit is (post 1991), those green spaces are paved for parking spaces or property developers in collusion with city councils turned them into more apartments
I really like how this channel talks about things largely overlooked where North Korea is concerned, and it talks about them in a completely neutral, unbiased tone.
@@daltongallowayThat is a stupid take. If you believe NK is evil there is more than enough material to make that argument. There is nothing wrong with a neutral take on NK urban planning.
@@daltongalloway he's not legitimizing dictatorship he's just analyzing and describing the urban planning. the politics and past atrocities of the regime are completely irrelevant to the subject at hand. Every single country on Earth has done messed up things at one point. We can still discuss their architecture and planning 😂 absolutely no one walked away from this video as a fan of the Kim regime. Get a grip.
@@OutragedPufferfish In a lot of European cities, people don't buy cars because cities are planned so they don't need them. In North Korea, people wouldn't have the resources to do so anyways. I think less cars is generally good, but it should come from good planning & design which doesn't require them not people being too impoverished.
Its really a shame that despite being Korea's oldest and longest surviving city, Pyongyang has lost majority of its ancient buildings to bombing,imagine all the Goguryeo and Gojoseon ancient houses, walls and pavillions being sorounded by a sprawling city like how Kaesong is, the USA and South Korea didn't even hold back on bombing the first and only surviving city which gave birth to the Korean civilization and heralded the first centralized authority in the Peninsula, but war is war so we can't do anyrhing about that.
@@stanleybell3857 "efficient" transport. Huge empty highways cutting up different districts. No walkability whatsoever. Doesn't seem that efficient to me.
@prodbyNOVAER pyongyang seems walkable from what I have seen, lots of footpaths in the photo i have seen. I'm no expert, but just comparing it to a large amount of my country things look to be better in some respects.
Nah, Gojoseon and Goguryeo era houses would have been wiped out before the Korean War, except for a few notable structures. First of all, unlike other ancient cities such as Rome or Athens, most structures were wooden, and not a lot of buildings from either era would be left intact for 3000 years. Secondly, when Goguryeo fell, Pyeongyang and its Taedong River remained a buffer zone between Silla and Balhae. Its even recorded that the first king of Goryeo lamented the poor state of the old Goguryeo castles, which have been abandoned in ruin for at least 2 centuries. It would be cool if they restored old palaces and towns, and I think it is a good thing that some Goguryeo-era structures are still standing today, such as gates like the Taedong Gate, and the Ulmil Pavilion. These are probably rebuilt over those long periods of time though. Korea had many periods of war, after all. Think of it as the Ship of Theseus. This is the case for many cities, including Kaeseong and South Korean ones, where you see Joseon era style architecture in places that are established in ancient periods.
@@yourfriend8052 what do you mean? The DPRK has been a state for decades, and was the more developed Korea for a very long time (until the 90s), ofc those are gonna be things.
Thank you for sharing your insight here. I think this is very interesting yet fitting with the urban development happening all across North Korea with their 20x10 plan and 5 year plan for Pyongyang Development.
Looking at the footage, the main design principle appears to be that nobody owns a car. If this was America or Russia, those wide boulevards would be chock-a-block and all the wide open public spaces would be turned into parking lots.
Well, maybe they realised public transport works and grew up to stop playng with big boys toys, they leave that to the kids. They do have cars by the way, why would you think is the purpose of having childrens traffic parks?
@@RedBird7aside from that i think North Korea did it in purpose, cars produce pollution, and in a book written by KIS as far as i can remember he clearly states that they wanted Pyongyang to look green and like a huge par when they were rebuilding the city after the war, cars obviously go counterintuitive to that, but i suppose a little of them won't be bad, since DPRK still needs to fullfill transportation needs especially on areas where public transport is not readily available. They limit cars as much as possible their.
@@fabio4465 Public transport only works in cities and for certain things. How am I going to use a city bus to go pick up a refrigeration compressor at 4 in the morning?
The main takeway for me is making a lot of space for well... space. Especially wide avenues and culture and leisure buildings, in fact should be the focus.
Still, everything seems overwhelming for pedestrians. The roads are too wide, and seem to be made just for cars, or military circulation. I wouldn't say it would be a heaven for contemporary urbanists, but only the mid-century Modernist.
Thank you for explaining and mentioning things that I've always been curious about, but never knew enough about to begin with to do any real research (hope that makes sense) 🙂 Also the Children's Traffic Park looks cute 😄
I've been waiting for this my guy, thank you for delivering 🙏🙏🙏 I find it fascinating that they have so many children's traffic parks. I think that's both amazing and very curious. I mean it makes sense, it teaches children from a young age how to drive safely.
Contact 'Absolute Nomads'....UK tour company based in Mongolia.....Richard and Benjamin both have experience of visiting the DPRK and will be organising tours once country opens up again for tourism 👍
Think of a daycare, extracurricular activities hub, and playground, wrapped up and put on steroids. Primary school students will often flock there to learn instruments and dancing, visit a large library and reading center, or meander around the building and play. Search the Mangyongdae Schoolchildren's Palace if you want to see more.
I like the fact that Hamhung still has a railway line running through center of the city. If once the city would want a metro line, they could repurpose this industrial line for such purposes. Also, as far as I know, only Belarus from exSoviet countries retained a specific category for heavily industrialized towns, namely, 'agrotown' "агрогородок". Other ex-Soviet countries now have strictly three categories - cities, towns 'пгт' and villages. Gorky oblast still also has several 'рп' 'Рабочий посёлок' "workers' town" but this is rather an exception from a general rule.
Where do you get all that footage from? From the DPRK itself? All these clips of clean, shiny streets and buildings - that must be stock footage, right? A simple tourist could never provide that high-quality of video clips.
The state news agency KCNA has a lot of them. You can access them online or try looking at some of the archives from East German and Soviet Union libraries if you're interested
This sort of Socialist planning will be the future of the world. It is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. It is also sustainable and environmentally conscious.
I would argue that it's not actually. A lot of these concepts were applied in the Soviet Union, particularly after WW2 when many historic cities had to be rebuilt from scratch with socialist urban planning in mind e.g., Minsk, or with frontier cities like Magnitogorsk and Novosibirsk which were built from the ground up in remote areas which had limited populations prior to their expansion under the Soviet industrialisation campaigns. The concrete prefab houses sometimes called Khruschevki that were built during the 60s are particularly sore topics for many cities as they create an extremely depressing atmosphere due to how ugly they are and due to their lower value (and therefore rent) compared to newer developments attracting lower class tenants often lead to these areas becoming hotspots of urban crime, drug use, and other social ills.
hwasong street is jaw-droopingly magnificent. I love the distinctive, new style of architecture. I started seeing that style near 2017-2018 and it's so refreshing. Thanks!
You do know that you now have to create a feature-length documentary going into excruciating detail about every single Children's Traffic Park in the country, right? They're clearly the beating heart of the entire nation. We're not going to just forget about them. On a serious note, another extremely interesting and good-faith video! It may not be the direction you want to take this channel, so I understand if it's not going to happen, but as someone who leans anarcho-socialist, I'd be curious to know whether there's room for other socialist ideologies in the DPRK political system (both ones similar to Juche and ones radically different, but still socialist). I think you'd do a good job at giving a fair overview of the situation, not demonizing the government and pointing out why its system has developed the way it has while also giving fair consideration to socialists who don't feel represented in the government (assuming there are any, for any reason). Lots of people (mostly in the West) will take any opportunity they can to criticize the DPRK and wield every issue like a spear, but I think the internet could use more frank but fair analysis of politics in the DPRK as well as other nations that the West usually sees as adversaries.
Western cities could also introduce small neighborhoods with public squares, playgrounds, shops, and leisure facilities. This would be better for mental health and social contacts, which are essential for mental health in turn. This is already on its way in the West. I don't regard city sprawl reduction necessary. Living on a larger area in one-story houses means more nature in everyday life.
Absolutely love these videos. You should make more looking at different regions. Let's say, California, the Philippines, Cordoba, Spain. The possibilities are endless!
13:56 truely what we are missing (genuienly as there isnt much graspable concepts of driving regulations untill only months before a driving test , tho not sure if idd trade all of our stuff for just the traffic park , wouldve been fun tho)
this is a very well done and education video but I had one question watching this. What are your sources and or how you know this and so much about the hermit kingdom?
I live in East Europe, and recently went to one such "micro district"... Gotta say it's pretty impressive, even tho it's like the poorest place in the region. But even then, it felt very cosy... with a sense of community. Almost too "collectivist" for my taste. It felt like an university campus with no sense of freedom or privacy. If you have great neighbours - great. If you're surrounded by dodgy people... kinda sucks. Nevertheless - super cosy, friendly, family oriented. Cute. EDIT: Definitely better than some ghettos in NYC. I mean it's a lot better than "developed" "rich" places in a lot of first world country. Even American suburbs seem more dangerous than these "micro districts". They almost feel surreal (for reference, Dubai rich neighbourhoods, or that Turkish village with copy paste European castles). So for a country with not a lot of money, with no independent / developed cultural "soul" like Paris - this is definitely the way to go! The focus on utility i.e. getting the max benefit from minimum financial investment is very clearly visible. In short - it works. FAR better than letting homelessness run rampant, as is the case in a lot of "rich" places (looking at America.... gosh what the actual f*ck).
It's good it looks like there's plenty of space between the streets and the really tall buildings for pedestrians, but I don't like the really wide streets... It reminds me of the dominant "stroads" here in the US (my home country) and I really dislike the city planning and euclidian zoning here... But maybe transit is more consistent in the DPRK? I'd hope so
North Korea has not only many Children Traffic Parks but also in the Philippines and Indonesia such as in Manila as Manila Children Traffic Park or MMDA Children Road Safety Park and in Bandung as Ade Irma Nasution Traffic Garden 😊😊
this is the 4th video on North Korea i saw in 10 minutes on you tube and yet i am repeatedly told it is the Hermit state where people are not allowed to film.
Wonderful. Thanks so much for the knowledge. What are the children’s traffic parks? May the DPRK continue to Flourish and Stay Forever Strong 🇰🇵 🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵
We can truly live like this too. The urban sprawl in the west is outrageous and the development that occurs is purely for profit rather than bettering the lives of the people. The development that focuses on people staying and interacting within their own communities rather than staying inside is so beautiful too, as capitalism breeds this feeling of isolation from the people.
This is great to learn the DPRK style of city planning
As an urban planning student I really like small little insights in other countries practices ^^
$5 the US makes no sense. I bet when you look at industry it's nonsensical. Shorts and shirts factories next to car manufacturers. I bet you can see we do not work we mostly sell.
@@ayuh8911what?
I was literally outisde 10 minutes ago and thinking how great it is that in my eastern European country Soviet planning allows quiet spaces just 100 meters away from major crossroads and whatnot
Microdistricting
Say more
well i live in a former yugoslav state and because of how underfunded and in some places non existent public transit is (post 1991), those green spaces are paved for parking spaces or property developers in collusion with city councils turned them into more apartments
now if you could just get those human rights
@@dannyboy-vtc5741They still did it and had their own spin on its logic.
The second phase of Hwasong District construction is going to be completed very soon.
cities skylines players: write that down!!
It really do be like that 😅😅😅
More like workers and resources: soviet republic players
@@JW-bx8ss what?
@itacom2199 it's another game for city planning but it's more realistic and had a stronger resource management element, plus a socialist style
@@JW-bx8ss Is it on steam?
I really like how this channel talks about things largely overlooked where North Korea is concerned, and it talks about them in a completely neutral, unbiased tone.
Yeah we love it when people legitimize dictatorships 🥴
@@daltongallowayThat is a stupid take. If you believe NK is evil there is more than enough material to make that argument. There is nothing wrong with a neutral take on NK urban planning.
@@daltongalloway he's not legitimizing dictatorship he's just analyzing and describing the urban planning. the politics and past atrocities of the regime are completely irrelevant to the subject at hand. Every single country on Earth has done messed up things at one point. We can still discuss their architecture and planning 😂 absolutely no one walked away from this video as a fan of the Kim regime. Get a grip.
@@daltongalloway So are people who calls usa the greatest country on earth
No such thing as an unbiased tone on this subject. 1:35 he's alreadly shown bias at least twice
I love the traffic parks, what a wonderful idea if you think about it.
Unfortunately most people are too poor to buy cars ):
@@golemofiron7250 Why "unfortunately"?
@@OutragedPufferfish In a lot of European cities, people don't buy cars because cities are planned so they don't need them. In North Korea, people wouldn't have the resources to do so anyways.
I think less cars is generally good, but it should come from good planning & design which doesn't require them not people being too impoverished.
@monkemode8128 Okay sweetie.
@@OutragedPufferfish 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 COME TO GEORGIA LETS SEE WHAT HAPPENS ATL BAGGAGE CLAIM 6 NOV 15TH 4:30 PM
Thank you for covering interesting and more niche topics!
Been a viewer since the railroad video, glad to see you're still making new ones
Its really a shame that despite being Korea's oldest and longest surviving city, Pyongyang has lost majority of its ancient buildings to bombing,imagine all the Goguryeo and Gojoseon ancient houses, walls and pavillions being sorounded by a sprawling city like how Kaesong is, the USA and South Korea didn't even hold back on bombing the first and only surviving city which gave birth to the Korean civilization and heralded the first centralized authority in the Peninsula, but war is war so we can't do anyrhing about that.
It is a shame. However, it did let people rebuild the city into what it is today, allowing for transport to be efficient, etc.
@@stanleybell3857 "efficient" transport. Huge empty highways cutting up different districts. No walkability whatsoever. Doesn't seem that efficient to me.
@prodbyNOVAER pyongyang seems walkable from what I have seen, lots of footpaths in the photo i have seen. I'm no expert, but just comparing it to a large amount of my country things look to be better in some respects.
Nah, Gojoseon and Goguryeo era houses would have been wiped out before the Korean War, except for a few notable structures.
First of all, unlike other ancient cities such as Rome or Athens, most structures were wooden, and not a lot of buildings from either era would be left intact for 3000 years.
Secondly, when Goguryeo fell, Pyeongyang and its Taedong River remained a buffer zone between Silla and Balhae. Its even recorded that the first king of Goryeo lamented the poor state of the old Goguryeo castles, which have been abandoned in ruin for at least 2 centuries.
It would be cool if they restored old palaces and towns, and I think it is a good thing that some Goguryeo-era structures are still standing today, such as gates like the Taedong Gate, and the Ulmil Pavilion. These are probably rebuilt over those long periods of time though. Korea had many periods of war, after all. Think of it as the Ship of Theseus.
This is the case for many cities, including Kaeseong and South Korean ones, where you see Joseon era style architecture in places that are established in ancient periods.
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YES!
Detailed communist city planning explanations are so hard to find!
Nice pfp
DPRK isn’t communist. Not even Stalinist lol.
Marxism is not Juche or Stalinism or Trotskyism
I actually genuinely agree with you @@EmmaWithoutOrgans
@@longiusaescius2537girls und panzer?
@@EmmaWithoutOrgans you're artistic
Can’t wait to see how great cities are made
On jaka Parker channel real life in North korea everyday
Would be great if you could make a video on the DPRK’s national park system and the country’s environmental bureaus
Are those even a thing?
@@yourfriend8052 it’s a country and it has parks. Why is it unreasonable that it has some form of park administration?
@@yourfriend8052 what do you mean? The DPRK has been a state for decades, and was the more developed Korea for a very long time (until the 90s), ofc those are gonna be things.
thank you for this Idee
We need some children’s traffic parks here in the US! Our drivers are terrible!
Alabama has great drivers.
maybe dont name them childrens traffic parks though, like litterally anything else lmao
Your urban design is terrible. Bad drivers are just the symptom
I love the look of the Songhwa Street Main Tower, it's like straight out of Halo
you guys are the best, thank you for clearing the fog around the dprk
What sources have you used for this video? Im really interested
Great and fascinating information, thank you!
This is outstandingly informative 👏 🇰🇵⭐️
Thank you for sharing your insight here. I think this is very interesting yet fitting with the urban development happening all across North Korea with their 20x10 plan and 5 year plan for Pyongyang Development.
Always great videos from you! Manse!
Looking at the footage, the main design principle appears to be that nobody owns a car. If this was America or Russia, those wide boulevards would be chock-a-block and all the wide open public spaces would be turned into parking lots.
Yah because of sanction and a small population that is similer to Finland population
Well, maybe they realised public transport works and grew up to stop playng with big boys toys, they leave that to the kids.
They do have cars by the way, why would you think is the purpose of having childrens traffic parks?
@@RedBird7aside from that i think North Korea did it in purpose, cars produce pollution, and in a book written by KIS as far as i can remember he clearly states that they wanted Pyongyang to look green and like a huge par when they were rebuilding the city after the war, cars obviously go counterintuitive to that, but i suppose a little of them won't be bad, since DPRK still needs to fullfill transportation needs especially on areas where public transport is not readily available. They limit cars as much as possible their.
@@fabio4465 Public transport only works in cities and for certain things. How am I going to use a city bus to go pick up a refrigeration compressor at 4 in the morning?
@@RT-qd8yl As someone from Stockholm/Sweden we just use home delivery here.
Would you some day make a podcast or something telling the story of how this channel came to be? I'd love to hear your stories
Thinking of a Q&A at 50K subscribers
@@DPRKExplained Counting on it!
you can never tell if a video of north korea was taken in 1988, 2002, or 2024
Skill issues
It's almost like they've been under severe sanctions for decades
Or 1960
Untrue
Bc NK is timeless
The main takeway for me is making a lot of space for well... space. Especially wide avenues and culture and leisure buildings, in fact should be the focus.
You guys do great work here, keep it up!
Urbanist heaven, most individual do not own cars, relies on public transit, mid or low-raise and mixed used building.
Still, everything seems overwhelming for pedestrians. The roads are too wide, and seem to be made just for cars, or military circulation. I wouldn't say it would be a heaven for contemporary urbanists, but only the mid-century Modernist.
DPRK: builds entire new neighborhoods in 3 years.
Any major city in the USA: pothole will be fixed in 5 years maybe.
Also
USA minimum wage: 12$
DPRK minimum wage: 2.8$
cry more.
Thank you for explaining and mentioning things that I've always been curious about, but never knew enough about to begin with to do any real research (hope that makes sense) 🙂
Also the Children's Traffic Park looks cute 😄
I've been waiting for this my guy, thank you for delivering 🙏🙏🙏
I find it fascinating that they have so many children's traffic parks. I think that's both amazing and very curious. I mean it makes sense, it teaches children from a young age how to drive safely.
Wow that was such a good video thank you!!
fantastic video, learned a lot from this city
this is such a beautiful channel, a way of humanizing Korea in a way not many if any at all think about - very much enjoy
I'm curious how local commerce fits into these city structures. Is it all mixed use or are there centralized areas too?
Extremely very interesting
this is the side of NK that you would not think about
i unironically would love to visit the DPRK one day, i love me a good walkable city
Do it
It's hard to visit. Id like to as well
Contact 'Absolute Nomads'....UK tour company based in Mongolia.....Richard and Benjamin both have experience of visiting the DPRK and will be organising tours once country opens up again for tourism 👍
Great video! What's a children's palace though?
Think of a daycare, extracurricular activities hub, and playground, wrapped up and put on steroids. Primary school students will often flock there to learn instruments and dancing, visit a large library and reading center, or meander around the building and play. Search the Mangyongdae Schoolchildren's Palace if you want to see more.
@@parkerdavis7859 thank you!
For a country with so few cars there's a very strong fixation on traffic safety.
Very informative video, thank you a lot!
Amazing content, the music is so good ❤
I would love to know were you get the videos/information you use from, it is very interesting!
This feels like perfect utopian land planning turned reality. This country feels like a dream.
Urban planning is really key to buidling great cities.
I’m just here to say thanks for teaching me about children’s traffic parks
please make a video about the children's traffic parks!!
I like the fact that Hamhung still has a railway line running through center of the city. If once the city would want a metro line, they could repurpose this industrial line for such purposes.
Also, as far as I know, only Belarus from exSoviet countries retained a specific category for heavily industrialized towns, namely, 'agrotown' "агрогородок". Other ex-Soviet countries now have strictly three categories - cities, towns 'пгт' and villages.
Gorky oblast still also has several 'рп' 'Рабочий посёлок' "workers' town" but this is rather an exception from a general rule.
Where do you get all that footage from? From the DPRK itself? All these clips of clean, shiny streets and buildings - that must be stock footage, right? A simple tourist could never provide that high-quality of video clips.
The state news agency KCNA has a lot of them. You can access them online or try looking at some of the archives from East German and Soviet Union libraries if you're interested
This is a helpful explanation of the subject matter!
this should be the gold standard after which citys are conceptulized! tho with other architectural styles than these flat slabs please ^^
Very nice!
Evan Roy. This video was awesome and very informative.
This sort of Socialist planning will be the future of the world. It is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. It is also sustainable and environmentally conscious.
I would argue that it's not actually. A lot of these concepts were applied in the Soviet Union, particularly after WW2 when many historic cities had to be rebuilt from scratch with socialist urban planning in mind e.g., Minsk, or with frontier cities like Magnitogorsk and Novosibirsk which were built from the ground up in remote areas which had limited populations prior to their expansion under the Soviet industrialisation campaigns. The concrete prefab houses sometimes called Khruschevki that were built during the 60s are particularly sore topics for many cities as they create an extremely depressing atmosphere due to how ugly they are and due to their lower value (and therefore rent) compared to newer developments attracting lower class tenants often lead to these areas becoming hotspots of urban crime, drug use, and other social ills.
Who else plays Soviet Republic: Workers and Resources? Because I'm going to apply these concepts.
hwasong street is jaw-droopingly magnificent. I love the distinctive, new style of architecture. I started seeing that style near 2017-2018 and it's so refreshing. Thanks!
This is much better than City Beautiful's video on Pyongyang
Really interesting video. My only criticism is that the special buildings being shown on the map were so small, they were really hard to see
You do know that you now have to create a feature-length documentary going into excruciating detail about every single Children's Traffic Park in the country, right? They're clearly the beating heart of the entire nation. We're not going to just forget about them.
On a serious note, another extremely interesting and good-faith video! It may not be the direction you want to take this channel, so I understand if it's not going to happen, but as someone who leans anarcho-socialist, I'd be curious to know whether there's room for other socialist ideologies in the DPRK political system (both ones similar to Juche and ones radically different, but still socialist). I think you'd do a good job at giving a fair overview of the situation, not demonizing the government and pointing out why its system has developed the way it has while also giving fair consideration to socialists who don't feel represented in the government (assuming there are any, for any reason). Lots of people (mostly in the West) will take any opportunity they can to criticize the DPRK and wield every issue like a spear, but I think the internet could use more frank but fair analysis of politics in the DPRK as well as other nations that the West usually sees as adversaries.
Anarcho, anchovies, other socialist ideology 😭🤣
anarcho westerners
If those whacko democratic socialist and revisionists had a chance they'd be done for.
Amazing insight
Man, I wanna visit the children's traffic park
It will be nice if you did a cities of South Korea
this is about Korea, not South Korea
At seeing at the future 19:11 ! Because order is progres! Either India can pick a little bit of those receipt??? WONDERFUL !
What did u mean by India can pick up a little of those receipt?
Western cities could also introduce small neighborhoods with public squares, playgrounds, shops, and leisure facilities. This would be better for mental health and social contacts, which are essential for mental health in turn. This is already on its way in the West.
I don't regard city sprawl reduction necessary. Living on a larger area in one-story houses means more nature in everyday life.
In North Korea where 13% of the land is arable and the rest is mountainous terrain, they have to worry about this.
*Inserts the song "We built this city". I love this.
we built this city!
we built this city on social-is-uhhhmm
Say what you want about socialist ideals, they do plan cities well compared with the american suburban mess
Absolutely love these videos. You should make more looking at different regions. Let's say, California, the Philippines, Cordoba, Spain. The possibilities are endless!
13:56 truely what we are missing (genuienly as there isnt much graspable concepts of driving regulations untill only months before a driving test , tho not sure if idd trade all of our stuff for just the traffic park , wouldve been fun tho)
this is how i design my cities in Cities: Skylines ^^
One question so the materials to built building r good
Finally we got North Korean aesthetic
Can You Do A Video Of The KPA (Korean People's Army ), And The KPRA ( Korean People's Revelutionary Army )
I hope DPRK Explained goes on The Deprogram at some point.
I'm glad there's intersection between the channels, agreed.
the ultimate collab
Please make a video about North Korean painting 🙏
Its crazy how efficient a city/country has to be when it isn't plundering through GDP.
Would love a video on the education/child welfare system in NK
13:55 The fact that A lot of them were built at the same time indicates that car ownership was expected to grow
this is so beautiful
Dprk buildings are so damn cute! This video is amazing
I'd love to play cities skylines with these cities! This was a great video!
I love this video and it makes me so excited to visit the DPRK when tourism resumes!
Wow quite a beautiful and organize city, A lot space make me jealous.
this is a very well done and education video but I had one question watching this. What are your sources and or how you know this and so much about the hermit kingdom?
Interest in the country and good research
Excellent video
Cool video!
Puongyang is absolutely beautiful city
I live in East Europe, and recently went to one such "micro district"... Gotta say it's pretty impressive, even tho it's like the poorest place in the region. But even then, it felt very cosy... with a sense of community. Almost too "collectivist" for my taste. It felt like an university campus with no sense of freedom or privacy. If you have great neighbours - great. If you're surrounded by dodgy people... kinda sucks. Nevertheless - super cosy, friendly, family oriented. Cute.
EDIT: Definitely better than some ghettos in NYC. I mean it's a lot better than "developed" "rich" places in a lot of first world country. Even American suburbs seem more dangerous than these "micro districts". They almost feel surreal (for reference, Dubai rich neighbourhoods, or that Turkish village with copy paste European castles). So for a country with not a lot of money, with no independent / developed cultural "soul" like Paris - this is definitely the way to go! The focus on utility i.e. getting the max benefit from minimum financial investment is very clearly visible. In short - it works. FAR better than letting homelessness run rampant, as is the case in a lot of "rich" places (looking at America.... gosh what the actual f*ck).
It's good it looks like there's plenty of space between the streets and the really tall buildings for pedestrians, but I don't like the really wide streets... It reminds me of the dominant "stroads" here in the US (my home country) and I really dislike the city planning and euclidian zoning here... But maybe transit is more consistent in the DPRK? I'd hope so
Amazing channel!! Thank you!
Hope to visit North Korea one day!
North Korea has not only many Children Traffic Parks but also in the Philippines and Indonesia such as in Manila as Manila Children Traffic Park or MMDA Children Road Safety Park and in Bandung as Ade Irma Nasution Traffic Garden 😊😊
this is the 4th video on North Korea i saw in 10 minutes on you tube and yet i am repeatedly told it is the Hermit state where people are not allowed to film.
Wow... This really... Isn't very bad at all
Great video; feels surreal actually learning about the country instead of just hearing how evil/stupid/poor they are. Thank you!
Wonderful. Thanks so much for the knowledge. What are the children’s traffic parks?
May the DPRK continue to Flourish and Stay Forever Strong 🇰🇵 🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵
We can truly live like this too. The urban sprawl in the west is outrageous and the development that occurs is purely for profit rather than bettering the lives of the people. The development that focuses on people staying and interacting within their own communities rather than staying inside is so beautiful too, as capitalism breeds this feeling of isolation from the people.
i love the music in the background
commenting for the algorhythm
Cities Skylines planning time!!!
I have ideas for city planning!!!
Requesting a video about North Korean animation
North Korean architecture > South Korean concrete squares.
I wonder what South Korea would be doing with all these cities?
I’ve heard of Kaesong
Kaesong is so fortunate to have been freed from Western imperialists during the Fatherland Liberation War.