The Taipei Times24d
The traveling DJ who is his own ‘curator’
In the karaoke room of Pyongyang’s Koryo Hotel, he plugged in his DJ controller and played songs by Maroon 5, Chuck Berry and the Village People for about a hundred foreigners and North Koreans.
First British tourists allowed back into North Korea tell BBC what they saw
But tourism to North Korea is contentious, especially as travellers have been allowed back before aid workers and most Western diplomats, including the UK's. Critics, including Joanna Hosaniak from ...
Travel Weekly Asia13d
Tourists banned in North Korea again
Just mere weeks after welcoming its first Western tour group, tour operators say North Korea is closed off now.
BBC24d
First British tourists allowed back into North Korea tell BBC what they saw
His hotel room was old-fashioned and filthy ... There were just a couple of moments when I thought, this is bizarre." For Greg from Koryo Tours, these interactions bring a deeper purpose to ...
Mint20d
North Korea is open. Who’s going?
At his hotel, Pierre Biot, 30 ... Grabbing a karaoke-machine mic at a North Korean bar, Benjamin Weston, who led the Koryo Tours group in Rason, couldn’t choose any Western songs.
North Korea opens to tourists after five years as visitors are made to buy Kim a bouquet
A young man is one of the first tourists to enter North Korea after the country closed its borders to travellers more than five years ago and he has shared with the Mirror his experience ...
Business Insider24d
I was one of the first Western tourists to visit North Korea in 5 years. I was surprised we were allowed to see signs of poverty.
Entering North Korea There have been a few false starts in the past, but two weeks ago, Koryo Tours set up a WhatsApp ... cheap for Westerners, and the hotel was actually really good.
New York Post21d
North Korea just allowed tourists to visit for the first time in 5 years — and what they saw was shocking
“North Koreans get the chance to engage with foreigners. This allows them to come up with new ideas, which, in a country this closed, is so important,” said Greg Vaczi from Koryo Tours.