Update: 2016 Pyongyang Film Festival will be held on September 16 to 23, 2016. We’re taking official film submissions. Contact us at [email protected] if you want to enter your short or feature film.
Sadly, “The Interview” may be the only [...]
By Elliott Davies | Filed under: Uncategorized | January 16, 2015
Update: 2016 Pyongyang Film Festival will be held on September 16 to 23, 2016. We’re taking official film submissions. Contact us at [email protected] if you want to enter your short or feature film.
Sadly, “The Interview” may be the only [...]
By Elliott Davies | Filed under: Uncategorized | January 10, 2015
A couple of years ago, we visited the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, a university privately founded by foreign educators in the outskirts of Pyongyang. We organized an official university recognized trip for Columbia SIPA to the DPRK and [...]
By Elliott Davies | Filed under: Uncategorized | January 2, 2015
1. PYONGYANG MARATHON 2015
Last year 2014 was the first time EVER that the Pyongyang Marathon, a bronze-level IAAF race, opened its doors to foreign amateur runners. Foreign professional runners were able to register, through an obscure government to [...]
By Elliott Davies | Filed under: Uncategorized | January 1, 2015
Nampo 남포시 is a port city on the western coast of North Korea located in the South Pyongan Province, 50 minutes away from Pyongyang. Here are its tourist attractions:
Nampo beach
Stefan Krasowski, one of our tourists, snapped some cool [...]
By Elliott Davies | Filed under: Uncategorized | December 20, 2014
Any trip to North Korea warrants a visit to the War Museum, officially known as the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum located in the heart of Pyongyang, North Korea’s capital city.
The museum was originally built in August [...]
By Elliott Davies | Filed under: Uncategorized | November 8, 2014
This week, our DPRK Traveler Spotlight is on Thomas Shubbuck, an American teacher from Las Vegas currently living in Shanghai. He traveled with us to North Korea on one of our Shanghai – Pyongyang Direct Tours. See what he has [...]
By Elliott Davies | Filed under: Uncategorized | November 8, 2014
UPDATE – 20 November 2014
In response to many inquiries we are receiving regarding Mr. Matthew Miller’s release, we are directing our readers to Mr. Miller’s exclusive interviews with The Guardian and [...]
By Elliott Davies | Filed under: Uncategorized | November 7, 2014
What You Need to Know about the April 11, 2021 Pyongyang Marathon
WHO CAN RUN:
Almost anyone can run in the amateur marathon alongside professional runners.
It’s not possible to register for the race on your own. You will need [...]
By Elliott Davies | Filed under: Uncategorized | October 27, 2014
UPDATE: February 24, 2015:
Unfortunately, we’ve received a confirmation from our DPRK partners that the 2015 Arirang Mass Games are cancelled. It doesn’t look like a revised version will take place this year either. On the bright side, we’re [...]
By Elliott Davies | Filed under: Uncategorized | October 23, 2014
UPDATED March 2, 2015
The Ebola travel ban has been lifted and we can resume tours to North Korea. Our first tour this year will be our 5-Day Standard tour at the end of March. We’re taking bookings [...]
By Elliott Davies | Filed under: Uncategorized | October 18, 2014
I was given a rare treat. It was not an expensive piece of jewelry, or a free ticket to Hawaii. It was better than that. I took a 3-hour ride through all 16 of the stations in the Pyongyang Metro, [...]
By Elliott Davies | Filed under: Uncategorized | September 26, 2014
INTRODUCING THE NOUL TABLET: DPRK’S ALTERNATIVE TO THE IPAD MINI
Disclaimer: We did not spend loads of time with this product, so this review is meant to be introductory. We would also like to mention that this is not [...]