Where in the world you find adds inside of an family water park? Im from germany and here it's not a common thing. Sometimes you have vending machines or a cafeteria with products from well-known brands but that's it.
Anyone else notice how the women were relegated to three patterns of swimsuits and all the men's were identical. It was almost like they were wearing uniforms instead of leisurewear.
They probably have to return the swimsuits after filming. I watched a documentary of someone who visited, the locals performed a dance for the visitors with coats on and once it was over they had to return the coats.
@@carmenalexis4787still dystopian in feeling though. Especially when you remember that the people are only allowed certain haircuts, making them all look the same as at least 15 other people
It seems like their factories make very limited styles of clothing. I watched another documentary, and noticed almost immediately that several women were wearing the same exact 1960s style sheath dress, and only in 3 colors. There were teenage boys wearing puffer coats, but they were identical and seemed to only come in 3 colors, as well! Also, the authorities making this film seem to have color coded everyone too? Pink for little girls and blue for little boys, and seemingly nothing else. This feels surreal, and is strange and sad...
Decadence is like a snow ball rolling downhill. We think these things are good because we remember the wholesome times as seen in this video. But our luxuries have quickly decayed us to the point that our water parks look trashy while theirs look like you could eat off the floor.
Lost it when we cut to the gym and other non-pool areas and it's still just people in swimsuits working out barefoot. They couldn't at least give their actors a change of clothes? 🤣
If this took place during the 90's, then that would have been around the time of that famine that killed hundreds of thousands to millions of North Koreans. The numbers are hard to gather. They kept the data fuzzy.
@Aaryan Shrestha Trump was out thata way awhile ago . He wasn't there to talk peace with Kim , he was there to tell South Korea that there would be no reunification . Corporate America doesn't want to lose their corporate colony.
Wet and Wild was, America still claim that as the first water park today even though it just combined a bunch of things Australia and Europe had for years. Also the USA is always touting disneyworld internationally.
@@jaybee4288 but literally the 2 world biggest parks (don’t know about water parks) belong to American nations. The Disney to, obviously, USA and Beto Carrero World in Brazil’s South region. There’s some sense in bragging about these as milestones, but can’t say about Wet and Wild since the only thing I literally know about it is it’s name!
The opening of a extremely large water park would be a headline in the UK or an individual American state. It's not that unusual. Better than boring rubbish about politics
@@The_Food_PoliceI’m embarrassed to admit I was almost one of them. I knew I must have missed something, so I scrolled back up and gave it a 2nd read. I’m glad I did because I needed that chuckle today.
Thats a slavic think. Militants are our family and we are our nations militants. We had in a school many events with our military, like machines showcase and participation in military activities just for fun. And many members of our families were involved with military, especially older generations. So its not uncommon for militants to be at some events as a side show.
@@FransceneJK98 And? What's your point? You have any proof it doesn't? Just making a point that if you don't have proof then you're the one making up propaganda in support of your own ideals. People are just people all around the world. It's their own countries that manipulate them into believing people everywhere else are bad.
Like the uniform swimwear, the fact that nobody is allowed to sit or place items on the chairs, the fact that lots of attractions look like they are built for small crowds to enjoy, not actual theampark crowds, or maybe seeing the same people over and over again.
Its all very truman show-like. Clearly acting. Alot of their bathing suits are the same that they wear, some of the people in the workout rooms looked emaciated, i saw bones protruding out of some guy’s back, and the paleness of the skin from truly never seeing the sun enough and being mal-nourished. The leader is too deranged to realize no one else falls for this fake shit
Maybe because everyone there is wearing 2-3 of the same swimsuits and swim caps, also the liminal space vibes the place gives. You could easily turn this into an anolog horror video with minimal editing
Out of context, it looks like a pretty cool waterpark, albeit designed by someone who doesn't quite understand how one functions. It has some real liminal space vibes. But then I noticed there are only about four different bathing suits, everyone is wearing one of two different swim caps, and the dystopia set in. If Huxley had a waterpark in Brave New World, this would be it.
That water is also clearly NOT treated with chlorine, the color is completely off. The plebians in North Korea don't even have access to clean drinking water, which why they all have parasites. That water is probably absolutely disgusting.
This was probably the happiest day in any of those kids entire lives, the best time they will ever have. It is really sad, but at least they can look back on that one day the army came and took them to a waterpark for a day to be filmed for a propaganda video. It reminds me of that one N. Korean defector who said she never knew love could be experienced between two people and not just for Kim Jung Un until she saw Titanic on a smuggled in portable dvd player - they have no idea what they are missing in life.
Omg I came to say the same thing. It’s gotta be the best day in the lives of everyone there. It’s sad. They’re a country of prisoners, occasionally given a treat to help the regime. The pawns played their part.
They are probably the elite party families. Who dont really lack for anything. Like the ones at the "model school kindergarten" in Pyongyang that Russian and Chinese tourists get to see, where they dress up and perform theater in elaborate costumes, do experiential learning about trees and animals in a national history museum type gallery, etc. Then most kids are in the countryside eating onions or seaweed their parents dig up. But honestly as long as not harmed or starving, kids are fine as long as they feel parents care for them and get along with peers/have friendship. A 5yo don't know any better and can be happy with basic needs and good relationships. It's knowing that it only gets worse that's heartbreaking, it's the older kids and adults I feel sorry for.
Reminds me of the propaganda films of the Third Reich and how happy the inmates in their concentration camps were.....before they were marched to their death and after the cameras were gone.
2:11 I like how the narrator emphasised “for people” in case we got confused and we thought it was for- oh I don’t know, the elite top 1% of soulless servants to the state
Really interesting that in the sports area segment, all participants were young, in very good shape and good at it, like professionals, not like an average water park visitor
Marcus A.H. Yes it’s Tuesday again, I’m so happy, unfortunately two of my friends starved to death yesterday. Oh well, at least the bird will cheer me up
This is the kind of comment that will get some gutter type comments in the future…. I’ll spare y’all a joke or two in this regard. Not my thing to crack jokes like this. Just point out the obvious…
Because they have no popular culture at all. A part from the select few, they don’t listen to any music except their own they make. There’s also no commercial brands anywhere
It was never meant to be open during the season. It was built only for propaganda and nothing else. They had Chinese contractors build it and North Koreans don't know how to maintain it. The few times it was they brought in Chinese.
@@rodzandzas Doni recites quotes from Hitler Hitler: JEWS AND MIGRANTS ARE POISONING ARYAN BLOOD Doni: MIGRANTS ARE "POISONING THE BLOOD OF OUR COUNTRY"
Love how they only got one costume change. Here is your swimwear. Wear it all day, for all activities even when water or action is not required. Also barely any children, just adult actors. Zero teenagers. How do they not understand how rediculous this looks to all of us? And the foreigners walking through so awkwardly. So silly how their country tours include 'the waterpark' or 'the shopping centre' haha like seriously, it's the Truman show.
@@no_one2197 I take it this is your first time hearing about North Korea? Apparently the park got shut down and now its in disrepair. They're essentially actors putting on a show for the tourists and those watching this thinking it's real. Also think of the ludicrous nature of using a single water park as a selling point for your country. It doesn't add up on top of the already well known fact fact that a majority of its citizens live in poverty. 😅
Well of course! The west is evil with all their horrible capitalist ideals, so they would *never* adopt any western luxuries, pastimes, or products into their society 😳 Everything must be created by the great leader
They already credited Kim Jong Il for wanting to open the park as his legacy, so until Kim reveals to us he invented time travel, we will not know the truth.
That water park was probably open for exactly one day - to film that video. And then everyone was sent back to their one bedroom apartments and work camp.
You people literally just be making assumptions based on no evidence. Also there’s no way in hell they would use people from work camps in these videos.
What got me the most was the rock climbing and bowling with no shoes. Along with the "this is a water park for children", with no children playing on it, in fact there were barely any children in the whole video. Then the dives had to hurt because they were more like belly flips over a proper dive. Followed by building all of that in 9 months must have taken some very serious corner cutting to pull off, of very serious worker abuse.
The funniest part for me was also the "this is a water park for CHILDREN" and then you just see pressure washer force jets of water shooting across the entire thing😂 children would drown if they went in there
Why is everything a propaganda just because it's North Korea? Can't it be just their commercial? People outside North Korea have to realize foreign culture is just gradually being introduced into this country. OF COURSE amusement areas and fast food from Western culture and even cuisine from Asian countries are foreign to them! It's also dehumanizing to treat them that they don't have brains just because they have never experienced most of the current pop culture and current events we have the privilege to use and see. Worse of all, we act as if our own governments don't do propaganda and disinformation on us, with thousands of news and journalists literally lying to us about anything. The current events in Palestine right now is a really glaring example.
This reminds me of the scene in Triangle of Sadness when the rich lady insisted all the ships staff must enjoy swimming too and makes everyone stop what they're doing and line up to jump off the ship into the water "for fun"
“The park has decayed and fallen into disrepair since it's initial use as a propaganda tool. As of 2023, none of the attractions are capable of holding water, and all of the filtration machinery has broken down due to a lack of maintenance. At last report the facility is closed with no plans to reopen.” -Wikipedia
This is the first time in my life that I’ve ever seen somebody bowling, barefoot. And I would imagine it’s probably not really comfortable to run on a treadmill without shoes on. I think I’ve done it before and I regretted it the next day. It’s so odd that they would not have had issues for them for those activities.
I honestly don't think they know how those things are normally done. They've never seen some of this stuff in person! Sometimes even the officials! Then, other people were saying the propagandists filming this probably just handed out one set of clothes for everyone participating, which they will take back once filming is done. The amount of work put into this is stsggering, and scary...
That woman at about 4:27 who grabs the boy to make sure he’s following the others in the pool made me so sad. You can see.m genuine fear she has for the boy. Like she is so afraid if he doesn’t behave perfectly he’ll be hurt. So sad
This feels so otherworldly and something about seeing them being happy for perhaps the one of the only times in their life is so heartwarming yet disturbing I mean how it’s portrayed here makes it looks like some kind of paradise in a perfect utopian world with its generic look and feel of the parks and attractions as well as the people
These are the families of folks who live in Pyongyang, which is the capital of North Korea. Rest assured they’re a privileged caste and likely are having a good time. Just because it’s a totalitarian state doesn’t mean people aren’t people.
@@Jordan-eh3fv Exactly. Some people will see one of their belief invalidated and then immediately proceed into thinking that "this is an exception, I'm still right".
Did you not read the FUCKING title of this video? PROPAGANDA FILM FOR A WATER PARK. Propaganda as in, you'll look like you're having fun or your father will be sent to hard labor for life.
She would go through a lot of crap if she actually said that. Wikipedia: "Criminal sanctions are sometimes levied against homosexuality or non-conforming gender expression deemed to be, "against the socialist lifestyle." While punishment was rare, it has been reported by The Korea Times that North Korea has executed gay couples under this law."
It angers me and makes me beyond sad that this day was probably the ONLY day these people will ever experience fun of any sort. This park is all for show, we all know this is.
11:51 This one is from somebody from the "New Socialist Party of Japan", they wrote "This water park is a great achievement of socialism; capitalism could not accomplish this." WTF??? There are water parks in Japan...
Fun fact: the waterpark bearing the name "Alpamare" is actually named after the Alpamare in Pfäffikon, canton of Schwyz, the biggest waterpark in Switzerland (source: Daily NK). Although Kim Jong-un attended school in Bern, it is entirely possible that he visited the Alpamare as part of a school trip from where he took the name home.
Lmao not this being North Korea's "pride and joy". I also love how the narrator points out what was for kids and the amount of time they reiterated how happy the people were
Okay but seriously though, can someone please explain to me like what the point is of North Korea and other overly governed countries. Like I don’t understand it. I don’t get why NK is always trying to “appeal” to the rest of the world that they’re “so great” like… we already know you guys are shit and completely behind technologically compared to like 90% of the world. And with all the money they wasted trying to act like their people enjoy their lives they probably could have used that money towards actually making things for the people. Like a real water park or amusement park or something. I don’t understand how a leader such as the Kim’s can totally see how shitty their own leadership is and how many people suffer and die and go “yeah this is fine” like from a moral standpoint I just can’t comprehend it. Can someone explain what they’re trying to accomplish?
Crazy to think about but my grandmother once in her lifetime had a vacation in North Korea when USSR was still present. She said she and other Soviet tourists weren't allowed to go anywhere without a guide or a soldier, they weren't allowed to film or record anything. The food was pretty decent. The elevator in hotel she stayed at never worked. She asked a Korean worker, who knew Russian well, why elevator was never working. He answered: "We are lacking in electricity, so we turn on the elevator when a check team arrives, and turn it off when a check team leaves". This whole sentence about a single elevator said me everything about North Korea. They put on a facade about "ideal communist country" while they lack in literally everything and their people don't trust anyone cause they're always afraid of being punished.
Under Stalin, yes. But from the 50s onward, the authorities only really cared if you spoke out against the regime, and even then just locked you in a psychiatric hospital. 60s-70s USSR was mostly a slightly nicer version of current day Russia, with better benefits and less sweatsuits.
This is more like "state-mandated fun" where citizens should visit at least once a week but not too often. Just enough to let the leaders know you're very grateful to enjoy such a great resource and so happy they provided it but polite enough to share such a fun resource with everyone else because they deserve to have as much fun as you had.
Why is everything a propaganda just because it's North Korea? Can't it be just their commercial? People outside North Korea have to realize foreign culture is just gradually being introduced into this country. OF COURSE amusement areas and fast food from Western culture and even cuisine from Asian countries are foreign to them! It's also dehumanizing to treat them that they don't have brains just because they have never experienced most of the current pop culture and current events we have the privilege to use and see. Worse of all, we act as if our own governments don't do propaganda and disinformation on us, with thousands of news and journalists literally lying to us about anything. The current events in Palestine right now is a really glaring example.
I've been to North Korea twice and can say at this water park you aren't allowed to go on anything and everything is carefully planned. The two times I've been there the same dance was being done in each of the pools to show how much fun they are having. I remember this one woman in a pool looking at me and she had a look on her face that was screaming "please help me".
So do you pay to go in but not allowed on anything? Is it just the government workers getting recorded? I noticed all the men are wearing the same black trunks almost like a uniform
I've been to the DPRK thrice and ALL of the people in the country are actors and they only eat twice per year and only grass and when they die they get forced to respawn so kim jong-un can kill them again.
This makes me so sad... Also, it's surreal to me--the water park my mom would take me and my sister to as kids has that same frog slide, but green and yellow. They also had those spray ring arches. And that place has been open since the early 1980s; I wonder how long it took them to source the stuff for this place. Somehow everything looks so dated, like it's glazed almost--old attractions kept propped up long past their normal life span. Sadder still, I cannot help but sincerely wonder who this is for. I am grateful for the English narration, but if this is supposed to be a tourism video for, say, rich Chinese tourists, then WHY is it in English? There is no way most North Korean people will ever get to set foot in that place, is there? :(
It's in English because this isn't for its citizens. They want other countries to think that they are all good and fine and having tons of fun. A few reports say that this isn't even open any longer and I believe it.
I bet this was never intended for use. It was built just for the propaganda video, a Potemkin waterpark, so to speak. The leaders of NK care far more about their image than the lives of their people.
Yes!! I just posted a comment asking the same question: who is it made for? Very strange and seems they’re trying to convince the rest of the world how fun it is in N Korea.
Considering that most of the information about North Korea comes from South Korea and the bloc that first staged a bombing raid equal to the largest in World War II, it is not surprising that you will not even have the knowledge that nothing good can happen in North Korea. Do you know about those who returned to it after fleeing? Do you know about the laws? Have you seen the inhabitants of North Korea yourself? No. Usually, all you know is a runaway fugitive who cries about the fact that her parents were executed in the camp, who, when checked, left with her family, but makes money from tearful books and interviews. Do you know how many channels from Koreans were blocked on RUclips and other platforms*? channels that had videos and photographs of work in the garden, at home, etc. - ordinary everyday ones?
The actual name of the song is "Funiculi Funicula" The song is originally a commercial jingle for a Funicular Railway that would ferry people up and down the slope of Mount Vesuvius. But a typical North Korean wouldn't know that and assume It's North Korean.
This is so funny and sad at the same time. Like imagine America making one of these for every water park we have and then just releasing it to the world being like “omg look! We made another one!”
looks like a great water park though, and looking at the surprised reaction of most truly west-brainwashed commenters, it's well founded to boast about it by the Koreans.
I’ve never seen an international commercial for the water park I grew up near. A billion and one ads in my city my entire life, but not international. And the one near me had an attached amusement park and was a lot bigger. I’m sure Disney and Universal get international ads, but they’re much bigger deals. Also, another water park opened up near me and I didn’t even know it existed until it killed a kid. *That* got a lot of attention.
@Shar Pee I dunno. I suppose a NK defector might be able to answer that. I'm guessing people can choose to go there, but it's just strictly open during certain time periods?
@@AntimonyxAngel It's me, shar pes on his alternate google account. I came back to this video because, despite it being shitty, really shitty propaganda it's oddly entertaining. I guess the Monsoon water park is only to be used by the 'tomatoes' aka high ranked NK citizens like party officials/military personnel. Or, the park is built to be used for socialist propaganda and abandoned.
2:11 Ah yes, an indoor wading pool. For people! I remember the last time I went to a waterpark they did indeed have a wading pool but access was strictly limited to heads of fresh cauliflower and old shoelaces. I'll tell you what, I never made that mistake again! Now I only visit waterparks with wading pools for people! Thanks, North Korea!
You can tell something is a bit off because everyone works out at the gym barefoot and in swim wear like they don’t know proper gym safety and hygiene. Of course there normally is no reason to workout as most are trying to conserve energy from little calories.
one time I saw a film about nazism and the "ads" of the labor camps were actually like this they were like saying "yes, have fun for friends and family"
Everyone knows that the entire population is in an open prison yet nobody is making a move to save them and soon the regime will have access to nuclear weapons which will make it almost impossible, we should be thankful and grateful that no one of us was born there it's just sad and unfair for 40 millions of people
They've had nuclear weapons for several years now. Nobody will make moves. DPRK is backed by Russia and China, both of whom have nukes as well. It would be foolish to do anything when both sides can render the planet uninhabitable with the push of a button.
To the people saying the amusement park was only used the one time and then probably never again: Young Pioneer Tours offers half day visits to the park on their Summer Pyongyang group tour visits, and they do longer visits by negotiation.
Bruh, their country is basically a giant abandoned landscape. They are like a colony of ants surrounded by the grass of a giant field and no other things.
There seem to be a couple of eerie and weird things going on in and around this park: Google images show the park desolate and devoid of water, but that could be because the images were taken during cold-weather-season. Right beside it is the Pyongyang university of performing arts, filled with dump trucks and nothing else (no cars, bicycles, mopeds, etc.) On the other side of the park is an orphanage and a nursing home. Eerie! And the streets seem mostly empty as well… very active and sophisticated culture…
It’s closed permanently due to it falling into disrepair. I imagine that’s what ten years with lack of maintenance done does to a building that was poorly made to begin with. (So many safety hazards it’s insane)
I honestly thought that after 60+ years of being divided, I would have a harder time reading their laanguage. Really surprised as a S.Korean to understand this
@@Elge06 One example is in the North they would say: "억양이 다르고 몇몇 단어들은 형태가 다른" But in the South the same phrase would be 억양이 다 억고 몇몇 단어들요 형태가 다른" Totally different way to say well cooked dog festival.
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The great thing about North Korean videos is you can never tell if they were filmed yesterday, in 2006, or 1988 lol
I could easily see this being a video made a few days ago
This video was from 2017 or 2018
that's not true.
281 people who laked your comment are fake accounts
@@happywalek9816 I don't think so, I laked his comment and I am a human
it is odd to see a water park with no brands, shops or any other commercial stuff. It’s almost like a stock photo water park.
thats kinda what communism strived to be
That is why North Korea is paradise on earth. At least that is the official government line...
no business in communism thats why
Where in the world you find adds inside of an family water park? Im from germany and here it's not a common thing. Sometimes you have vending machines or a cafeteria with products from well-known brands but that's it.
@@rantovicannato9046 Well, Germany doesn't have out of control companies making their laws. Germany doesn't even interrupt TV show with commercials.
Anyone else notice how the women were relegated to three patterns of swimsuits and all the men's were identical. It was almost like they were wearing uniforms instead of leisurewear.
They probably have to return the swimsuits after filming. I watched a documentary of someone who visited, the locals performed a dance for the visitors with coats on and once it was over they had to return the coats.
@@carmenalexis4787still dystopian in feeling though. Especially when you remember that the people are only allowed certain haircuts, making them all look the same as at least 15 other people
I noticed that. I thought I was crazy.
It seems like their factories make very limited styles of clothing. I watched another documentary, and noticed almost immediately that several women were wearing the same exact 1960s style sheath dress, and only in 3 colors. There were teenage boys wearing puffer coats, but they were identical and seemed to only come in 3 colors, as well!
Also, the authorities making this film seem to have color coded everyone too? Pink for little girls and blue for little boys, and seemingly nothing else.
This feels surreal, and is strange and sad...
Plus they all look the same
"you can slide on a rubber boat, or set your body afloat" And absolute masterpiece of poetry
Bars 🔥🔥🔥
that shit slap 🔥
barsss!!
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As a person who has worked in a water park, this one is too clean. It’s so eerie
Its brand new tho of course its clean still
Yeah, it must have been nice the one day that it was open.
Decadence is like a snow ball rolling downhill. We think these things are good because we remember the wholesome times as seen in this video. But our luxuries have quickly decayed us to the point that our water parks look trashy while theirs look like you could eat off the floor.
@@abominationdesolation8322 eating is a luxury in north korea
@@TerminalConstipationwell done.
You know the reactions are genuine because it’s the only time in their life they’ve experienced a water park.
Yeah which is honestly sad, i have a hard time watching this video
This video is heartbreaking once you stop laughing at the cringe propaganda. I really feel for the people of NK. 💔
Right! Makes me sad and angry
no, it's a priviligied minority of north korea.
rich people in north korea (yes they exist) even have access to a mall with products from the west.
@@gorfousenpai4860And how is North Korea getting these products?
Lost it when we cut to the gym and other non-pool areas and it's still just people in swimsuits working out barefoot. They couldn't at least give their actors a change of clothes? 🤣
and bowling barefoot
@@emdubl with swimming hats still on. 2 bowling lanes for 10,000 visitors per day.
@@emdublplaying basketball barefoot in their swimsuits.
6:41 And wtf is this,,some dude drinking some beer with a swim cap on
And sitting round a table with swimming caps on
North Korea feels like watching the Truman Show.
This this! 😂
Worse, the type that will let you hungry or get sent to mining camp
I thought the exact same thing, soo weird.
We are watch by western cameras in the whole citys and streets and schools.
YES
I feel like I'm watching a '90s infomercial for a Walt Disney wannabe water park.
If this took place during the 90's, then that would have been around the time of that famine that killed hundreds of thousands to millions of North Koreans. The numbers are hard to gather. They kept the data fuzzy.
@@okaminess USA/UN bombing of Korea killed close to 3 million Korean civilians and now South Korea is a corporate colony of the USA
@Aaryan Shrestha Trump was out thata way awhile ago . He wasn't there to talk peace with Kim , he was there to tell South Korea that there would be no reunification . Corporate America doesn't want to lose their corporate colony.
ice water South Korea is still better than north korea 😂😂
@Aaryan Shrestha yes, many more prostitutes and military coups over in occupied Korea.
You know it's bad in your country when the opening of a water park is considered a National Headline.
True, but it was under Kim Jung uns order soooooo if it’s ignored death to all?
Wet and Wild was, America still claim that as the first water park today even though it just combined a bunch of things Australia and Europe had for years. Also the USA is always touting disneyworld internationally.
@@jaybee4288those are commercials not news
@@jaybee4288 but literally the 2 world biggest parks (don’t know about water parks) belong to American nations. The Disney to, obviously, USA and Beto Carrero World in Brazil’s South region. There’s some sense in bragging about these as milestones, but can’t say about Wet and Wild since the only thing I literally know about it is it’s name!
The opening of a extremely large water park would be a headline in the UK or an individual American state. It's not that unusual. Better than boring rubbish about politics
I met a man who had escaped from North Korea. I asked him what it was like to live under such a repressive regime.
He answered- "I couldn't complain."
I'm pretty sure this comment went way over people's heads
Lol good one.
8/10....good job sir
@@The_Food_PoliceI’m embarrassed to admit I was almost one of them. I knew I must have missed something, so I scrolled back up and gave it a 2nd read. I’m glad I did because I needed that chuckle today.
I see what you did there.
If I hear the term "indoor wading pool" again my head will explode.
BAAHHAHHAHAHH
As opposed to the outdoor ones. Puddles. Every time they used that phrase, I expected to see a family of flamingoes.
I know right 💀💀💀
“You can slide on a rubber boat, or set your whole body afloat.”
Some reason this line just sends me. It’s just so oddly put together.
english isn’t her first language that’s why
It's like they Google translated Korean into English.
Same thoughts...
It’s like a cryptic message saying that you could never leave North Korea
It sends you? I think you also have problems with English.
Love how the military was there to celebrate the opening of a water park for families 😂😂
Thats a slavic think. Militants are our family and we are our nations militants. We had in a school many events with our military, like machines showcase and participation in military activities just for fun. And many members of our families were involved with military, especially older generations. So its not uncommon for militants to be at some events as a side show.
10:36 did you hear that over 10,000 people come to this water park EVERY DAY??? 😂😂😂😂
@@FransceneJK98 And? What's your point? You have any proof it doesn't? Just making a point that if you don't have proof then you're the one making up propaganda in support of your own ideals.
People are just people all around the world. It's their own countries that manipulate them into believing people everywhere else are bad.
They kinda just go everywhere
They do things like that in America too, especially in small towns where many have enlisted
Have fun or else!
Labour camp.
no
10:42 PIZZA TIME????
BANG!!!
Tyrunt Memes lmao
This feels so uncanny somehow. Like, I can't put my finger on it but it seems almost dystopian? Like those liminal spaces but they're real. Surreal...
Like the uniform swimwear, the fact that nobody is allowed to sit or place items on the chairs, the fact that lots of attractions look like they are built for small crowds to enjoy, not actual theampark crowds, or maybe seeing the same people over and over again.
Its all very truman show-like. Clearly acting. Alot of their bathing suits are the same that they wear, some of the people in the workout rooms looked emaciated, i saw bones protruding out of some guy’s back, and the paleness of the skin from truly never seeing the sun enough and being mal-nourished. The leader is too deranged to realize no one else falls for this fake shit
Maybe because everyone there is wearing 2-3 of the same swimsuits and swim caps, also the liminal space vibes the place gives. You could easily turn this into an anolog horror video with minimal editing
Like what? The backrooms? lol
Worst than dystopian
Out of context, it looks like a pretty cool waterpark, albeit designed by someone who doesn't quite understand how one functions. It has some real liminal space vibes. But then I noticed there are only about four different bathing suits, everyone is wearing one of two different swim caps, and the dystopia set in. If Huxley had a waterpark in Brave New World, this would be it.
Spot on.
I thought liminal space backrooms when it shows the empty parts, there is a pool level similar
Rental clothing is very common practice. You could find something similar in south Korea.
They only have certain haircuts they can choose from of course they would only have certain approved bathing suits.
That water is also clearly NOT treated with chlorine, the color is completely off. The plebians in North Korea don't even have access to clean drinking water, which why they all have parasites. That water is probably absolutely disgusting.
I am sure that these select few people will tell their grandchildren about the one time they enjoyed Korea’s first water park. Heartbreaking!
It was the world's first water park. Great leader said so. Thank!
I know, I hate water parks. There are always too many people.
@@papabird4425 right? even those thank you letters were weird.
This honestly must have been the best day in their entire lives, it was probably only the rich hired for it though
Pretty sure those in the ruling class have a good life. Or at least a normal-ish life?
Everybody gangsta till you splash a government official on the poolside
That moment when
That's 10 years hard labour for you
"Gulag it is"
HMMMMMMMMM 10 YEARS DUNGEON
Borsalino Kizaru Nah that government official is probably there with his family and don’t mind getting some water in his face.
This was probably the happiest day in any of those kids entire lives, the best time they will ever have. It is really sad, but at least they can look back on that one day the army came and took them to a waterpark for a day to be filmed for a propaganda video.
It reminds me of that one N. Korean defector who said she never knew love could be experienced between two people and not just for Kim Jung Un until she saw Titanic on a smuggled in portable dvd player - they have no idea what they are missing in life.
Omg I came to say the same thing. It’s gotta be the best day in the lives of everyone there. It’s sad. They’re a country of prisoners, occasionally given a treat to help the regime. The pawns played their part.
that last part is heart-breaking
Of course they will tell that for the american propaganda. Think for yourself, how would you know if they're not lying.
You believe any western propaganda don’t you
They are probably the elite party families. Who dont really lack for anything. Like the ones at the "model school kindergarten" in Pyongyang that Russian and Chinese tourists get to see, where they dress up and perform theater in elaborate costumes, do experiential learning about trees and animals in a national history museum type gallery, etc. Then most kids are in the countryside eating onions or seaweed their parents dig up.
But honestly as long as not harmed or starving, kids are fine as long as they feel parents care for them and get along with peers/have friendship. A 5yo don't know any better and can be happy with basic needs and good relationships. It's knowing that it only gets worse that's heartbreaking, it's the older kids and adults I feel sorry for.
That was legit probably the most fun any of them have had in their lives
They are probobley paid
@@rodrigoignaciolunacruz3545 more like forced
They were probably panicking to look like they're having enough fun on camera so they dont get killed.
Reminds me of the propaganda films of the Third Reich and how happy the inmates in their concentration camps were.....before they were marched to their death and after the cameras were gone.
@Bob Naikava stfu shill
2:11 I like how the narrator emphasised “for people” in case we got confused and we thought it was for- oh I don’t know, the elite top 1% of soulless servants to the state
Just like Bane said “the people”
I’m curious what “atomized individuals” are.
You mean to tell me the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is not, in fact, democratic??
@@mutestingray gasp
@Vasian Vasianich wow. You got us there...but it is LGBTQ+ now you North Korean.
Wow. The 40 people that had permission to be there must have loved it.
Were they permitted to go or ordered under pain of death to be there and enjoy it? That's a moot point.
Really interesting that in the sports area segment, all participants were young, in very good shape and good at it, like professionals, not like an average water park visitor
Yeah, the ones in the US are all built like Kim Jong-un😄
It’s hard to get fat when your country has a food shortage
“They had electricity to run the water for almost four hours that day, son; I’ll never forget it”
That speak volume about North Korea. Lol.
They actually had water???
One day USA will pay for what it is doing.
I'd like to know who went without power and water while Dear Leader was filming this. 😂
😂
My personal favorite propaganda video was 1 where it showed a homeless camp during winter and said all Americans eat birds and snow.
Jesse Torres I mean idk about you but that’s literally all me and my friends do. Can’t wait until Tuesday so I get to eat birds again
Ah, the desired tuesday bird. Thank you honored government for such pleasure!
Marcus A.H. Yes it’s Tuesday again, I’m so happy, unfortunately two of my friends starved to death yesterday. Oh well, at least the bird will cheer me up
I LITERALLY JUST WATCHED THAT ONE IT'S HYSTERICAL. By the way you can only eat birds on Tuesday and the only coffee is North Korean coffee
I almost died of starvation, damn bird almost got away, sad thing is my brother wasn't lucky
“Trampolines for muscular development.” Ah, so that’s what trampolines are for.
I've been doing it all wrong!
😂😭😭
*Sad wannabe Superman noises*
It was a spring platform before somebody's loose mom hopped on one .
This is the kind of comment that will get some gutter type comments in the future….
I’ll spare y’all a joke or two in this regard. Not my thing to crack jokes like this. Just point out the obvious…
why do all the North Korean state-propaganda films have a soundtrack that was made in a 1970s employee training video?
I was surprised to hear tunes that are also popular throughout the world: ‘Funiculì, Funiculà’ and “Tico-Tico no Fubá”
They make me think of a knocked-off 'Hooked on Classics'
Because they have no popular culture at all. A part from the select few, they don’t listen to any music except their own they make. There’s also no commercial brands anywhere
Do you expect from Isolated prison country? Lol.. Of course they got 90s soundtracks because that's all they had
Because they're perpetually stuck in the 1950s, the era in which their country began :(
FYI: The park opened in 2013 and has remained closed 90% of the time due to poor maintenance issues and lack of budget to run it.
It was never meant to be open during the season. It was built only for propaganda and nothing else. They had Chinese contractors build it and North Koreans don't know how to maintain it. The few times it was they brought in Chinese.
@@johncase1353 So sad to see how many young people in the U.S. (liberals) still believe in Socialism....
@@rodzandz I'm thinking the DNC sponsored this infomercial.
@@rodzandzas Doni recites quotes from Hitler
Hitler: JEWS AND MIGRANTS ARE POISONING ARYAN BLOOD
Doni: MIGRANTS ARE "POISONING THE BLOOD OF OUR COUNTRY"
@@rodzandzHitler: I WILL GET RID OF THE "COMMUNIST" "VERMIN"
Doni: I WILL GET RID OF THE "COMMUNIST" "VERMIN
The adults are frantically having so much fun, as if their lives depend on it.
Despite it being a propaganda film, it’s probably the first real fun. Any of those adults have had it in their lives
as a life guard there are so many safety hazards it low key triggers me
Especially the structures on some of the waterslides.
lol
Like in north Korea is a much bigger hazard than any at this water park!
@@nathandude1828 it’s fine. Not like many people are gonna use it anyway
3:29 dude almost flys off the side of the slide
Some of the slides look truly dangerous.
@@joemaliga16 yeah they probably don’t have good safety regulations in North Korea
Love how they only got one costume change. Here is your swimwear. Wear it all day, for all activities even when water or action is not required. Also barely any children, just adult actors. Zero teenagers. How do they not understand how rediculous this looks to all of us? And the foreigners walking through so awkwardly. So silly how their country tours include 'the waterpark' or 'the shopping centre' haha like seriously, it's the Truman show.
The visitors look so out of place and uncomfortable. It’s like they are watching a show on display.
Do you truly believe all these people are actors? Bro wtf
@@no_one2197yes they are
@@no_one2197 I take it this is your first time hearing about North Korea? Apparently the park got shut down and now its in disrepair. They're essentially actors putting on a show for the tourists and those watching this thinking it's real. Also think of the ludicrous nature of using a single water park as a selling point for your country. It doesn't add up on top of the already well known fact fact that a majority of its citizens live in poverty. 😅
They can't risk any kids breaking character
They forgot to mention that water parks are Kim Jong Un's invention.
Well of course! The west is evil with all their horrible capitalist ideals, so they would *never* adopt any western luxuries, pastimes, or products into their society 😳 Everything must be created by the great leader
They already credited Kim Jong Il for wanting to open the park as his legacy, so until Kim reveals to us he invented time travel, we will not know the truth.
I am surprised that a NK water park isn't adorned with missiles, tanks, bunkers or barbed wire.
In 1467
Yes everything.. apart from the gym though
Fun fact: the water park was shut for maintenance once, and Kim Jong Un's approval dropped 10 points to only 135%.
How is that fun.
@@Kgio-2112 how did you take that obvious lie seriously?
k Gio It was actually pretty funny.
@@teamistro5270 funny? Like a clown? He said " fun fact" fun? Funny? Huh?
k Gio Then you said it was a failed attempt at comedy.
That water park was probably open for exactly one day - to film that video. And then everyone was sent back to their one bedroom apartments and work camp.
You people literally just be making assumptions based on no evidence. Also there’s no way in hell they would use people from work camps in these videos.
@@alexnauru7692 Kim Jong Un is that you?
@@strangeanimations588 no
@@alexnauru7692 seems like it 😂
@@strangeanimations588 Sure buddy 🙄
What got me the most was the rock climbing and bowling with no shoes. Along with the "this is a water park for children", with no children playing on it, in fact there were barely any children in the whole video. Then the dives had to hurt because they were more like belly flips over a proper dive. Followed by building all of that in 9 months must have taken some very serious corner cutting to pull off, of very serious worker abuse.
I heard of worker abuse in China as well.
All the "workers states" are guilty of extraordinary worker abuse.
@@filippocorti6760 Sadly we have worker abuse in the USA as well. Usually its called low wages.
The funniest part for me was also the "this is a water park for CHILDREN" and then you just see pressure washer force jets of water shooting across the entire thing😂 children would drown if they went in there
@@wolfgangjr74 I expanded on this comment a little but I think they deleted it. I don't know why.
This video is so creepy, and the government has no idea that this just freaks people in other countries out.
I agree
ya
Fr
i felt like crying the entire video
Why is everything a propaganda just because it's North Korea? Can't it be just their commercial?
People outside North Korea have to realize foreign culture is just gradually being introduced into this country.
OF COURSE amusement areas and fast food from Western culture and even cuisine from Asian countries are foreign to them!
It's also dehumanizing to treat them that they don't have brains just because they have never experienced most of the current pop culture and current events we have the privilege to use and see.
Worse of all, we act as if our own governments don't do propaganda and disinformation on us, with thousands of news and journalists literally lying to us about anything. The current events in Palestine right now is a really glaring example.
“Now go wallclimbing and pretend to have fun”
“But sir do i need shoes for that”
“Do you want to be re-educated?”
I'm more of a fan of swimsuit bowling. Although barefoot weightlifting couldn't be a problem could it? 🤣
ur dialouge makes no sense. as soon as he said, "but sir..." he and his whole family would immediately be brutally murdered
@@rachaelnichter5525 You think he would have survived "But" ?
This reminds me of the scene in Triangle of Sadness when the rich lady insisted all the ships staff must enjoy swimming too and makes everyone stop what they're doing and line up to jump off the ship into the water "for fun"
I've never tried bowling barefoot before. We're probably doing it wrong.
Fr like especially with swimsuit dripping wet on the bowling lanes. That will probably help one's form.
its because there are no ads.
If I ever do, someone better get a xylophone out and play the flint stones sound.
“The park has decayed and fallen into disrepair since it's initial use as a propaganda tool. As of 2023, none of the attractions are capable of holding water, and all of the filtration machinery has broken down due to a lack of maintenance. At last report the facility is closed with no plans to reopen.”
-Wikipedia
Someone removed this from Wikipedia because it was added without citing any source.
@@cube2fox yeah this means anyone could have made that up
I saw that myself.@@cube2fox
@@r2gh44where would u get proof? The North Korean government isn’t going to report on its disrepair like they did when it opened.
You have b3en banned from visiting North Korea until you apologize to the Dear Leader Kim Jong Un
Whenever I’m having a bad day NK videos always cheer me up. I remember my life could be so so so much more destitute
God bless you! I feel the same
@@gordonfreeman3072nice to see you here gordon freeman
It’s sad but I also watch North Korea stuff when I’m TRULY depressed. It’s awful.
LMAO
I think they frequently have meth to cheer themselves up.
This is the first time in my life that I’ve ever seen somebody bowling, barefoot. And I would imagine it’s probably not really comfortable to run on a treadmill without shoes on. I think I’ve done it before and I regretted it the next day. It’s so odd that they would not have had issues for them for those activities.
I guarantee you those treadmills were only used once, probably for less than 5 mins.
the guy sitting barefoot on the floor in the weight room absolutely going to town on the rower caused me physical pain
@@PaulFisher did you notice the cross trainers weren’t even on?
if they had issues,they cannot complain for it is dangerous to complain
I honestly don't think they know how those things are normally done. They've never seen some of this stuff in person! Sometimes even the officials!
Then, other people were saying the propagandists filming this probably just handed out one set of clothes for everyone participating, which they will take back once filming is done.
The amount of work put into this is stsggering, and scary...
Straight up reminds me of watching the anime that you really didn't care for but your show was on next on a Saturday morning in 98
Hahahahaha this is too real
it feels like youre looking at a liminal space no matter where you pause the video, even when theres people in the frame
Anybody see that soldier @ 10:10 ? He's trying to get quickly out of camera shot.
bruh yes😀
Good catch!
J Cropps because when the recording stops soldiers need to be ready to go to their positions and point their guns at the people thats NK in a nutshell
Топић bro i am not russian
Топић its a Bulgarian name
Who can't stop watching North Korean propaganda?
Lol
North Koreans
@@TheNGVirusYT I nearly fkn died when I saw this comment.
Yes, kim joung un will safe all of as hes the father of are nation !
@@TheNGVirusYT LMAOO
That woman at about 4:27 who grabs the boy to make sure he’s following the others in the pool made me so sad. You can see.m genuine fear she has for the boy. Like she is so afraid if he doesn’t behave perfectly he’ll be hurt. So sad
I noticed that, too.
Yeah, she grabbed him in an very urgent way
KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK vai nos avisando mana, qualquer coisa so dar um chama
@@nozmigoxt5638 lmao wtf
Não posso com esses comemorar kkkkk@@nozmigoxt5638
This feels so otherworldly and something about seeing them being happy for perhaps the one of the only times in their life is so heartwarming yet disturbing
I mean how it’s portrayed here makes it looks like some kind of paradise in a perfect utopian world with its generic look and feel of the parks and attractions as well as the people
These are the families of folks who live in Pyongyang, which is the capital of North Korea. Rest assured they’re a privileged caste and likely are having a good time. Just because it’s a totalitarian state doesn’t mean people aren’t people.
@@Jordan-eh3fv Exactly. Some people will see one of their belief invalidated and then immediately proceed into thinking that "this is an exception, I'm still right".
It was all fun until farmer Joon Pyok Rhee left a turd in the wave machine pool
@@Jordan-eh3fvThey’re people, just oppressed people.
Did you not read the FUCKING title of this video?
PROPAGANDA FILM FOR A WATER PARK.
Propaganda as in, you'll look like you're having fun or your father will be sent to hard labor for life.
3:06 “I’m gay”
Lol
xDDDD
She would go through a lot of crap if she actually said that. Wikipedia: "Criminal sanctions are sometimes levied against homosexuality or non-conforming gender expression deemed to be, "against the socialist lifestyle." While punishment was rare, it has been reported by The Korea Times that North Korea has executed gay couples under this law."
She just eats the pussy for sustenance.
HAHAHAHAHA
This is so 80’s that it’s tearing my soul apart.
Edit: Their Korean sounds so different from Korean in South Korea
ANXI8TY it’s a whole different dialect. they barely understand each other. they understand only a little.
@@isaaa1122 wtf? as a south korean, I don't have any difficulty understanding north korean words. it's very similar, so far
ANXI8TY heavy accent
You mean their accent?
Except it was made in like 2013 lmao
The music is very intensely “happy” lol. I want to know what it’s called
One of the songs is called please, let the snow fall.
It’s so odd to see people in a water park and then immediately using gym equipment in their swimwear 😅
It's feels so uncomfortable and so unnecessary, like just wear shirt at least.. Lol
It angers me and makes me beyond sad that this day was probably the ONLY day these people will ever experience fun of any sort. This park is all for show, we all know this is.
Sadly it probably isn't even that fun, they know that if they mess up they can be in deep trouble...
Hopefully they are not dead nor in prison by now..
11:51 This one is from somebody from the "New Socialist Party of Japan", they wrote "This water park is a great achievement of socialism; capitalism could not accomplish this." WTF??? There are water parks in Japan...
It is FAKE
There are water parks in South Korean too
Its propaganda
But capitalism couldn't achieve such a *wonderful* water park. That last french review is pretty weird too
They’re clearly forged..
Fun fact: the waterpark bearing the name "Alpamare" is actually named after the Alpamare in Pfäffikon, canton of Schwyz, the biggest waterpark in Switzerland (source: Daily NK). Although Kim Jong-un attended school in Bern, it is entirely possible that he visited the Alpamare as part of a school trip from where he took the name home.
the entire water park and not a single life guard, probably because no one is allowed to use it
Is it true that they aren't allowed to use it?
@@youaremom3775 probably only elites
Only water park where the 'lifeguards' are equipped with AK-47s.
Only the supreme leaders
Lifeguards go incognito . Much like the secret police.
Lmao not this being North Korea's "pride and joy". I also love how the narrator points out what was for kids and the amount of time they reiterated how happy the people were
Half the time the kids weren't even there.
And the kid and the end of the introduction looked malnourished.
She had a gun to her head
Okay but seriously though, can someone please explain to me like what the point is of North Korea and other overly governed countries. Like I don’t understand it. I don’t get why NK is always trying to “appeal” to the rest of the world that they’re “so great” like… we already know you guys are shit and completely behind technologically compared to like 90% of the world. And with all the money they wasted trying to act like their people enjoy their lives they probably could have used that money towards actually making things for the people. Like a real water park or amusement park or something. I don’t understand how a leader such as the Kim’s can totally see how shitty their own leadership is and how many people suffer and die and go “yeah this is fine” like from a moral standpoint I just can’t comprehend it. Can someone explain what they’re trying to accomplish?
@se7ense7ens37 Power and wealth makes people do wild shit.
Crazy to think about but my grandmother once in her lifetime had a vacation in North Korea when USSR was still present. She said she and other Soviet tourists weren't allowed to go anywhere without a guide or a soldier, they weren't allowed to film or record anything. The food was pretty decent. The elevator in hotel she stayed at never worked. She asked a Korean worker, who knew Russian well, why elevator was never working. He answered: "We are lacking in electricity, so we turn on the elevator when a check team arrives, and turn it off when a check team leaves".
This whole sentence about a single elevator said me everything about North Korea. They put on a facade about "ideal communist country" while they lack in literally everything and their people don't trust anyone cause they're always afraid of being punished.
Is your babushka from a former Soviet republic?
What you tell us here, fits well with reports from other people who have been there more recently.
Yeah, being the most sanctioned country in the world will have some effect on your energy production I suppose.
Under Stalin, yes. But from the 50s onward, the authorities only really cared if you spoke out against the regime, and even then just locked you in a psychiatric hospital. 60s-70s USSR was mostly a slightly nicer version of current day Russia, with better benefits and less sweatsuits.
@@dirremoireSounds like a good reason to try and not be sanctioned, huh?
This video is surreal. It feels like it was made by aliens or something.
Psychopaths...
@@ironclad7768 They have propaganda movies and we have TV ads, what's the difference?
Imagine being abducted by aliens and they put you in human zoo enclosure and this is it for the rest of your life.
It’s literally just an ad for a water park man
But worse it was made by human beings
1:22 look, black north koreans
Ricardo Herrera 🤣🤣
OMG LOL xD
Now I have even more questions
probably a diplomat
No such thing as a Black North Korean. I guarantee you that will be the last Black person in that park lol. Probably a diplomat or politician
This is more like "state-mandated fun" where citizens should visit at least once a week but not too often. Just enough to let the leaders know you're very grateful to enjoy such a great resource and so happy they provided it but polite enough to share such a fun resource with everyone else because they deserve to have as much fun as you had.
that's your western propaganda talking
@@01hZAs opposed to what? Shitty life propaganda?
Why is everything a propaganda just because it's North Korea? Can't it be just their commercial?
People outside North Korea have to realize foreign culture is just gradually being introduced into this country.
OF COURSE amusement areas and fast food from Western culture and even cuisine from Asian countries are foreign to them!
It's also dehumanizing to treat them that they don't have brains just because they have never experienced most of the current pop culture and current events we have the privilege to use and see.
Worse of all, we act as if our own governments don't do propaganda and disinformation on us, with thousands of news and journalists literally lying to us about anything. The current events in Palestine right now is a really glaring example.
“I have to go to a water park once a week! Terrible news!!”
So glad to live in a free country where I can have Walmart-mandated fun instead!
BOWLING, CLIMBING ROCKS, WORKING OUT & PLAYING BASKETBALL.... IN THEIR SWIM GEAR?!?
Yeah, Nothing Wrong With That. 🤣
Yeah it's weird that it's a gym and water park
And hair salon and spa lol
HIStory854 😂😂😂
And beer
I was weirded-out by them all being barefoot using the gym equipment 😨
This was five years ago. All these people are starving now.
I've been to North Korea twice and can say at this water park you aren't allowed to go on anything and everything is carefully planned. The two times I've been there the same dance was being done in each of the pools to show how much fun they are having. I remember this one woman in a pool looking at me and she had a look on her face that was screaming "please help me".
So do you pay to go in but not allowed on anything? Is it just the government workers getting recorded? I noticed all the men are wearing the same black trunks almost like a uniform
It’s a miracle you survived both times. Kudos.
If forced synchronized submerged dancing isn’t a good time, what is?
I've been to the DPRK thrice and ALL of the people in the country are actors and they only eat twice per year and only grass and when they die they get forced to respawn so kim jong-un can kill them again.
You've been there two times? Are you a Party member?
Fun fact: shoes aren’t allowed ANYWHERE in this park.
Good thing they don’t have any.
Oh... the blisters...
Shoes are too American
Neither are the common citizens allowed in this park.
Kim Jong Un hasn't invented shoes yet
Gosh, I feel terrible about how I pre judged North Korea. I was so wrong. It’s really a wonderful place. It should be a Wheel of Fortune prize.
Its very real. The water looks real, Kim is Real. All hail kim jong un @@Junkrr_0
😆😆😆 I'm dying here 🤣🤣🤣
Appreciate the irony
@@randompersonxy1033its sarcasm not irony
What if he some leader from north korea trying to convince us that north korea is doing good? 😭
Just think, outside the city there are people literally starving and struggling to survive 24/7
This makes me so sad...
Also, it's surreal to me--the water park my mom would take me and my sister to as kids has that same frog slide, but green and yellow. They also had those spray ring arches. And that place has been open since the early 1980s; I wonder how long it took them to source the stuff for this place. Somehow everything looks so dated, like it's glazed almost--old attractions kept propped up long past their normal life span.
Sadder still, I cannot help but sincerely wonder who this is for. I am grateful for the English narration, but if this is supposed to be a tourism video for, say, rich Chinese tourists, then WHY is it in English? There is no way most North Korean people will ever get to set foot in that place, is there? :(
It's in English because this isn't for its citizens. They want other countries to think that they are all good and fine and having tons of fun. A few reports say that this isn't even open any longer and I believe it.
I bet this was never intended for use. It was built just for the propaganda video, a Potemkin waterpark, so to speak. The leaders of NK care far more about their image than the lives of their people.
Yes!! I just posted a comment asking the same question: who is it made for? Very strange and seems they’re trying to convince the rest of the world how fun it is in N Korea.
Considering that most of the information about North Korea comes from South Korea and the bloc that first staged a bombing raid equal to the largest in World War II, it is not surprising that you will not even have the knowledge that nothing good can happen in North Korea. Do you know about those who returned to it after fleeing? Do you know about the laws? Have you seen the inhabitants of North Korea yourself? No. Usually, all you know is a runaway fugitive who cries about the fact that her parents were executed in the camp, who, when checked, left with her family, but makes money from tearful books and interviews. Do you know how many channels from Koreans were blocked on RUclips and other platforms*? channels that had videos and photographs of work in the garden, at home, etc. - ordinary everyday ones?
Oh look a tankie that fell for the propaganda lol @@morrsul9089
The barefoot rockclimbing, bowling, and basketball is insane
The threadmill 💀
Well, probably better barefoot than in military-issue boots. I'm guessing running shoes were not on that year's budget.
Wonderful experience isn't it? 😊
They spend more money trying to fake a good quality of life than actually supplying a good quality of life
Socialism in a nutshell.
Everything Woke Turns to Shit.
@@vemarj2802 Everything you said in that statement is contradictory
Yeah that's how this kind of propaganda works
Welcome to America
North korea’s main exports are meme’s. 😂
Why is the theme music from the pizza delivery quest from Spider-Man 2 on here??? Lmao
10:50
The actual name of the song is "Funiculi Funicula"
The song is originally a commercial jingle for a Funicular Railway that would ferry people up and down the slope of Mount Vesuvius.
But a typical North Korean wouldn't know that and assume It's North Korean.
00:54 Ok little boy, smile and wave at the camera or these soldiers behind me will execute everyone in the pool.
Blue-Eyes White Swagg'n it’s pronounced “Water tank” CD
Bro that kid and the one behind are so skinny, like they barely eat or some shit, look like sticks that’d break if the wind blew at them wrong.
I don't know how to describe the feeling I'm getting from watching this but it's sorta like a creepy nostalgic feeling if that makes sense.
Google liminal spaces.
That’s why
I grew up in a Libyan water park in the 70’s. I know exactly what you mean. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
It's giving me eerie 90s Butlins ads while I eat breakfast before school.
retro future
that sounds like the same feeling im getting from looking at your profile picture
You know you live in the greatest country in the world, when your government prevents you from leaving your country.
maybe they arent leaving because life's good and they have no reason to
Because if they did allow it no one would live there anymore lol
@@wispisangno this is far from true.
me, a russian: 😶
please help i want to escape but it's nearly impossible at this point haha...
@@virsa17 feel bad for you hope you get out of there someday man.
Wow! Look mom! No 👟!!!! 6:00 Kim Yong Un said enough is enough! I got all y’all bathing suits 🩱 and swim caps - I’m not getting y’all sneakers 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is so funny and sad at the same time. Like imagine America making one of these for every water park we have and then just releasing it to the world being like “omg look! We made another one!”
To be fair, that is what people do when they make a water park
@@josephc.9520
To be fair, there are water parks all over the world and nobody else is boasting about them as the pride of their nation.
@@reggie18b Yes I agree, never said anything of the sort
looks like a great water park though, and looking at the surprised reaction of most truly west-brainwashed commenters, it's well founded to boast about it by the Koreans.
I’ve never seen an international commercial for the water park I grew up near. A billion and one ads in my city my entire life, but not international. And the one near me had an attached amusement park and was a lot bigger. I’m sure Disney and Universal get international ads, but they’re much bigger deals. Also, another water park opened up near me and I didn’t even know it existed until it killed a kid. *That* got a lot of attention.
The way the narrator says for people at 2:10 is like she cant believe it herself.
It was made for people! WOw PEOPLE!? But how can that be?
*mind blown*
ASMR for Socialist Milenemiuns!
@Shar Pee I dunno. I suppose a NK defector might be able to answer that. I'm guessing people can choose to go there, but it's just strictly open during certain time periods?
@@AntimonyxAngel It's me, shar pes on his alternate google account. I came back to this video because, despite it being shitty, really shitty propaganda it's oddly entertaining.
I guess the Monsoon water park is only to be used by the 'tomatoes' aka high ranked NK citizens like party officials/military personnel. Or, the park is built to be used for socialist propaganda and abandoned.
@@AntimonyxAngel If you look at all these places from these videos, they are all abandoned.
2:11 Ah yes, an indoor wading pool. For people!
I remember the last time I went to a waterpark they did indeed have a wading pool but access was strictly limited to heads of fresh cauliflower and old shoelaces. I'll tell you what, I never made that mistake again! Now I only visit waterparks with wading pools for people!
Thanks, North Korea!
lmao
Shoelaces! 😂
Thanks for sharing your woes!
God damn shoelaces taking our wading pools!!
Pee-pol need indoor wading pools too. 😂
This sent me 😂😂😂
You can tell something is a bit off because everyone works out at the gym barefoot and in swim wear like they don’t know proper gym safety and hygiene. Of course there normally is no reason to workout as most are trying to conserve energy from little calories.
Okay everyone, wrap it up. Move these prisoners back to the labor camps!
sad but funny
I shouldn't be laughing
damn that's dark😂
one time I saw a film about nazism and the "ads" of the labor camps were actually like this they were like saying "yes, have fun for friends and family"
Bwahahaa.
Im going to hell
"wanted to build an indoor wading pool, for people"
which turned out to be a better idea than the original idea of building it for horses and caribou.
Why are they doing EVERYTHING in bathing suits 😬
Anna lmaoo 😂😂
Propaganda
They said get the hell out the pool and film this part! NOW! Lol
Costume change was not in the budget
@@denisl2760 😅😅
Everyone knows that the entire population is in an open prison yet nobody is making a move to save them and soon the regime will have access to nuclear weapons which will make it almost impossible, we should be thankful and grateful that no one of us was born there it's just sad and unfair for 40 millions of people
They've had nuclear weapons for several years now. Nobody will make moves. DPRK is backed by Russia and China, both of whom have nukes as well. It would be foolish to do anything when both sides can render the planet uninhabitable with the push of a button.
I left a bad review of this place on Yelp and ended up leaving a fantastic review of the Kim Il Sung Memorial Re-education Camp a few years later
Underrated comment
The only funny comment here. Good job
Oh, that is a great comment!!!!!! 10,000 upvotes if I could
now leave one for Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York
Impressive for 1973
6:53 they forgot to show the posters of what hairstyles they are allowed to get
Lol
That's not even a joke though. They have a selection of permitted haircuts.
@@jimbojackson4045 wrong
GUYS IT LOOKS LIKE WORLDS FIRST WATER PARK AD 😭😭😭
And this was in 2019 😂 when it's feels like it's should 15 years old video or more
The one who filmed surely had a gun
This was filmed by the North Korean gov itself. SMH.
With one bullet
NOW IN THE SLIDE OR...
A. Borno
its a joke smh
North Korea might be a shit hole but at least it has guns and waterparks and no Greta Thunberg or Muslims invading.
“Or set your whole body afloat” you can do that by criticizing the North Korean government in any way whatsoever
it rhymed
This video is like one of those uncanny AI generated adverts.
To the people saying the amusement park was only used the one time and then probably never again: Young Pioneer Tours offers half day visits to the park on their Summer Pyongyang group tour visits, and they do longer visits by negotiation.
Yeah they turn everything back on to create the illusion that it's still in operation. It's closed 90 percent of the time because they cant afford it
“In his life the glorious leader dreamed of building an indoor wading pool, for the people”
I’m glad to see realistic and healthy goals being set.
An indoor wading pool…..
For me to POOP ON!!!! 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
@@BenjaminGessel thank you for your thrilling and insightful commentary Benjamin lmao
@@Captain_Yogurt 😁😁😁
He had his priorities straight for sure. Nevermind food, housing, or healthcare. Indoor wading pool is what the people need!!
@@Captain_Yogurt pls this exchange is sending me
You know whats really funny? On Google maps this park is abandoned
Edit: don't go into replies, they are a war zone
Fr?? Lmaoo💀
That's because it is.
Bruh, their country is basically a giant abandoned landscape. They are like a colony of ants surrounded by the grass of a giant field and no other things.
@Dino Gamer come say it to my face.... F'n slacker
@Dino Gamer
...and still are not.
Disclaimer these are trained actors on arrival looky looky yes no touchy touchy
Supreme leader.. Lmao
Bet you can see into a work camp from the top of the slide.
There seem to be a couple of eerie and weird things going on in and around this park:
Google images show the park desolate and devoid of water, but that could be because the images were taken during cold-weather-season. Right beside it is the Pyongyang university of performing arts, filled with dump trucks and nothing else (no cars, bicycles, mopeds, etc.)
On the other side of the park is an orphanage and a nursing home. Eerie! And the streets seem mostly empty as well… very active and sophisticated culture…
It’s closed permanently due to it falling into disrepair. I imagine that’s what ten years with lack of maintenance done does to a building that was poorly made to begin with. (So many safety hazards it’s insane)
Most of the population don't have cars. Only the wealthy and privileged from what I heard
I took a look. The places look abandoned and sad.. and both weren't open for very long.
I honestly thought that after 60+ years of being divided, I would have a harder time reading their laanguage. Really surprised as a S.Korean to understand this
How different does it sound?
@@UndercoverDog같은 문장이라도 억양이 다르고 몇몇 단어들은 형태가 다른것도 있어요
근데 단어가 달라도 어차피 한국어라 뜻을 유추하기에 어렵지 않아요
@@Elge06 One example is in the North they would say: "억양이 다르고 몇몇 단어들은 형태가 다른" But in the South the same phrase would be 억양이 다 억고 몇몇 단어들요 형태가 다른" Totally different way to say well cooked dog festival.
@Gigi-xr3qs idiot
I like how she always said "tank" instead of "pool"
Yeah, i guess the same lady does the propaganda for the army
That's why Marxists are called tankies.
Freudian slip, much?
Beautiful park, unfortunately only a small percent of the population can go - the rest of them are dying of hunger