Taking a glimpse inside NORTH KOREA 🇰🇵 (surreal experience)
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2024
- North Korea is one of the most closed countries on Earth for travel. After 3 years of complete isolation following the pandemic, it is still closed to this day. So, intrigued and hoping to get a glimpse of this fascinating nation, we travelled north from Seoul to the DMZ, the highly contentious border between North and South Korea, to learn more about life in both Korea's and how the two sides fell in to conflict in the first place and how it affects the daily lives of millions of Koreans on both sides to this day. We even managed to take a peek across the border, in to North Korea towards Pyongyang, over the town of Kaesong.
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Some of the video gotten wrong name of the sea near Korea peninsula... it is historically 'East sea' correct and (Sea of Japan secondly) . Japan has invested much to change this name as the way they want globally... and lots of things bought it and showed it now wrong as Sea of Japan... which is totally wrong historically... hope you see it right, know it, and correct your subtitles ...name...your video has been great btw
Very interesting. My Grandad fought there so I went in Sept 2022 for a look around and saw all the things you did. I actually saw a NK farmer through a telescope and learned about the daft flag pole stuff, had my passport checked by military, had a rough wanker down the tunnel (you are right, proper effort getting down there). Good video.
What I appreciate most about your videos is you show things like it really is and Julia your emotions are an open book. I could feel your heartache at looking across into North Korea. Thanks for keeping it real and for showing the truth.
Thank you for posting this, so well done.
As a military dependent I was born in Japan. As a 26 yr military veteran I spent 6 military years in Korea and 1 yr as a civilian in Korea. I went to all these places and more. South Korea is a beautiful place with VERY NICE PEOPLE! I still have friends there. My family and I have great memories of South Korea and really miss it.❤❤❤❤
For many of us in America, the Korean War was just the backdrop to the TV show MASH, which was in constant reruns as a kid. My great uncle served during the Korean War and fell in love with the country and spoke of it fondly. I’ve also been fortunate to work with a number of Koreans. A beautiful culture and people. I think you wonderfully captured the beauty and friendliness of a people who must live constantly on guard with eyes fixed north. The contrast between the DMZ and Donghae was so interesting to see. It was also interesting to see how touristy some parts of the DMZ are. Would not have guessed that.
Thank you for your grandfather's service.
We won't forget them.
Nice vid.Thanks for posting. 😊
I love your perspective on the conflict between the Koreas. It resonates with me so much. ❤
I met a lovely lady from Siberia in mum’s home city and thought of you. I told her about your channel. Beautiful people.x you are.
Nice coverage. So true about the front line.
I am so glad I discovered your videos recently. This one was especially intelligent and interesting - great introduction to the history of the past 80 years Matt and so sad that 3m died so unnecessarily in the war. Looking forward to your next episode!
WOW amazing video !!!! Is your sister a permanent part of your group now ? It's so nice to have her company Julia ☺️
Such an interesting video guys ❤❤ Thank you xx
Hii
Again an amazing video. Your presentation and insight are wonderful. As someone else stated how little we do not know. Thank you for sharing and taking us with you on your travels. ❤
Fascinating. Also appreciate the calming understated music
Wonderful video!! Really interesting to watch.
We hope to go there someday. We enjoyed your video
Just want to say, I really really am grateful for all you guys uploads and all your hard work. They are very very appreciated. Keep loving each other and thanks you again for all the great work that you are both doing. Hope you keep on going with it. But only do it if its working for you both. Anyhow, just want to say thanks.
P.S thanks for being real and honest people. That goes a long way, nowadays. All the best.
Thank you, guys, for that fascinating video! Thanks for showing us what you could of the DMZ area. So interesting but sad. Julia, you are too cute! I’m with you on how that all makes one so sad. My family had relatives behind the Iron Curtain of East Germany so I understand the sadness. I’ve often thought about how life would be so much simpler because it is all within our control. I, too, love the wilder coastal areas. Keep the fun coming!
fascinating, thank you
Glad we could share it ❤️
Hii
Freedom is not free. Freedom requires eternal perseverance opposing the actions of those who would take it from you and subjugate you.
Thank you very much for a very informative video, you have really broadened my mind about North and South Korea. Thank you so much.🏴🇬🇧💐
Thanks for another informative vlog of Korea. You guys Rock!! 💜💜🇰🇷
Beautifully done video! Thank you! ❤
Another amazing video from the three of you. It`s strange how the more you learn, the more you find out how little you know. Korea an amazing place...Thank you Xx
Thank you so much John! Really appreciate it 🙌🏼❤️
I am from india
i enjoyed here to the end … 👌 … i was here around ten years ago … epic spot ..
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greetings from 🇮🇩 Indonesia
Great job covering a complex and existential issue in a travel vlog format. I've lived in South Korea as an English instructor, and also have had the chance to personally visit North Korea. Well done!
Really great video, so interesting and well filmed. We didn't know about the tunnels between the two and find it so unbelievably sad that this situation exists. Incidentally, the same thing happened to me with the seagulls in Brighton, I got completely mugged. Many thanks as always and keep safe guys 🤗🤗🤗❤️❤️❤️
🌼💛Thank You for making these amazing videos for us! Oh the places you bring us along! So Exciting!
Fascinating video, thanks
what a great video thank you
So very interesting guys. Thank you
I’ve watched a few of your videos now and have subscribed because you are a delightful couple and I’m enjoying your travels.
Love the video❤
I was in SK this spring. The DMZ was surreal. So many questions.
Really interesting to see your visit to the DMZ. I have never been to South Korea, but visited North Korea in November 2018. The DMZ and Kaesong was the first day trip. Our guide interestingly said she found visiting the DMZ from the north side much more relaxed than from Seoul. Kaesong is a beautiful city that feels like the heart beat of the Korean nation. I found the thought of 70+ years of total division heart wrenching. There is so little motor traffic outside of Pyongyang, and when the Covid lockdown came and I had an essential journey through my work, I immediately thought of usual service in the DPRK!
What an amazing episode. Thank you for sharing your journey and inspiring us to travel more.
Great vlog! I've been to Seoul and I had no idea it was so close to the border! Would you recommend going in winter?
@5:25 When dicussing the third tunnel you filmed a sign with the words '통일로'. '통일' means reunification and '로' is road. Just though I'd let you guys know. Great video.
I always learn something from your videos. 👍 Though I've seen the Michael Palin's documentary.
That’s so cool. It was like that at market in Crete Greece. I wanted three of something - they said - kilos- no just three items - and they gave it to me . The little things in life are so sweet….
It's such an amazing video
I like the way you explain Korea history !!!
I can’t even start to imagine what those people in the north and the south feel, who have family that are separated for all those years. It must be so hurtful not to be able to even communicate.
Thank you for the video in Korea.❤P❤E❤A❤C❤E❤
Thank you for this video
Can you give me the name of the tour you used to go u to I the DMZ?
спасибо Мэтту,что он так хорошо освоился с русским языком)
WoW "AWSOME" post and great to see it on video 10/10 from me.....cheers ~baden~
North and South Korea are divided at the 38th parallel. Not the 68th.
Where you both from? Great vid
I'm lucky to have done 2 trips to the border now - I went on your trip in July 22 and the 2nd tunnel last month (March 24). Yours is the better trip as you're actually in the DMZ and closer to North Korea itself. Great vlog - many thanks! 🌸 🇰🇵🇰🇷
I tried not to laugh at sunglasses Julia as serious talk, but 😆 as always love your channel. Jo
Thank you for a beautiful video. Harriet and I have been to South Korea and the DMZ . It was a surreal experience for us too. The Fish Market in Donghae-si are amazing. Did you eat any of the
shellfish. Russian Tourists are allowed to visit Pyongyang under certain rules. Which you visit if you could ? All the best guys ❤❤ Sending you Hugs🫂 and Kisses💋 from Harriet, Jim
and Yuki
Another great informative video! Вы молодцы ребята! С удовольствием смотрю ваши видики из Лос-Анджелес CША. Matt’s Russian is unbelievable by the way!
😊 nice
Thanks! ❤️🙌🏼
Intresting to know about this place
You are breve and beautiful people.z. Please be safe. Your American friends love and care about you.
Thank you so much for the history. I was 5 when the war ended and they didn't teach about it in school. I learned about it from MASH, lol. I really like Donghae and it's neighboring town, they seem so laid back and comfortable. Such beautiful scenery to enjoy then you just scratch your head and wonder why they can't solve their differences. I guess that's war and if anything I'd like to see it all turn to peace.❤
I sense a real sadness that you cannot visit North Korea 🇰🇵. I can imagine how frustrating that must be when you literally want to see the entire globe. We live in hope that one day we can trek the globe without these obstacles.
Thanks for this content 🙂
You’re visiting some interesting places, the wall of china a few weeks ago now the Korean border with it’s history, good to see it now instead of in history documentaries ✌️❤️🇬🇧
I am a dad of a 7 year old boy that was kidnapped to South Korea.
Korea is a partner country of "Hague convention" that is supposed to promptly return children that were illegally taken across the border.
FBI was trying to book a flight to Korea to rescue the child. However, Korean government stopped them saying this is a civil matter and because it is not criminal in Korea, the dad should go through civil court. (Especially because Korea is a signatory state of Hague convention)
I did. Korea took 2 years to make a final decision that this boy has to PROMPTLY return to the US. But they didn't prepare an enforcement mechanism. I got a total of 10 court orders just in Korea(including the Korean Supreme court order). And my son Bryan's 3 week trip became a 5 year separation from me.
I talked to multiple Korean officials and although they admit the problem, nobody is taking responsibility.
They ask the child who doesn't even remember dad "Do you wanna stay here, or do you wanna go to Dad?" And if he says he wants to stay, they go home.
They say it's too late. "He doesn't remember you, so what do you want us to do?"
Korea calls this respecting the child.
On the other hand US court orders clearly states that the mother has serious concerns of mental issues and she is a threat to the child. The patenting evaluator said this is a form of child abuse.
Korea ignores this problem. They just say we can't do anything.
I love Korea and I wanted to trust that they can respect the law, but I am at a point that I have to take this into my own hands and raise public awareness. Last time I protested at Pike Place Market, and this time I went to Korean Consulate in Seattle.
[Watch Video](ua-cam.com/video/4wXAvR_J6RI/v-deo.htmlsi=gY5cZd-HM1ycaGdg)
I would appreciate it if you can spread the words, and tell people.
If we can't bring Bryan back, no children will be safe from being abducted to South Korea.
Thank you.
Amazing to think I can experience this area in the comfort of my home in USA.Thank you 😊.
I hope too travel there this year !! How much money you need to have to bee there?
You cannot understand the partition of the Korean Peninsula, the Korean War, and subsequent events without a thorough understanding and consideration of the brutal murderous occupation of Korea by the Japanese early in the 20th century and up through their defeat in WW2. It was the equally brutal actions of the American-backed government of Syngman Rhee which precipitated the invasion from the North. Your video is well-intentioned, but superficial and naïve. The people of the Korean peninsula deserve better consideration by the global Internet.
OMG.
the place you visit first in donghae is hansum beach.
The beach is not famous tnat much, and that is my gotoplace when i feel like crying .
the second place you went by barrier fence is gobulgae beach.
I love tese places
because its not bustling and small pretty cozy ones
Its amazing how you know these good places
I hope you make a lot of lovely memory in korea
lol Matt saying Pipets is so funny
Reminds me of Berlin, New Years Eve 1989. Standing on top of the wall that night at Brandenburg Gate. The unknown of what was beyond. Then the surreal moment around 1am people were breaching it (each way, and man we helped a lot of people up from the East side onto/over the wall). But before we left that night, we also hopped down into the East. The guards etc on patrol had all just cleared off. 'This is unexpected and nuts: How far do we dare going?'. Not so far, maybe a 30mins wander about, a few icy-cold hundred metres in/around, with eyes peeled. Wintery desolation. I watched M+Js fascinating vid here and it reminded me of that. And I thought, how might it be if one moment they had an hour when they could just wonder into the North and back, and how shocking might it be...
So there you are , wondering where you guys were the other day as I haven't seen you around for a while
Priceless video for us Korean veterans. Have followed you through Russia and wonderful Mongolia. Look forward to more videos.
the 2nd most powerful person in North Korea is the Supreme Leader's sister Kim Yo Jong who is his most trusted adviser.
FYI...both Yo Jong and Jung Un went to boarding school under assumed names in Switzerland in the late 1990s
I'm always tickled by the American food additions that happened to Korean food from the what the soldiers ate. Processed American Cheese food cracks me up in Ramyeon. I would love to go visit. Thanks for the video (as always)
You're right Julia.., power and greed cause all of this misery in the world.. 'When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.'
I also went during febrero because for a very long time I’ve been obsessed with history, specifically the war between These 2 now nations, it is quite impressive how decisions can affect so much people’s lives, I lived in Japan before and now living in China, I have the opportunity easily going to North Korea which I will, to continue learning about world history, I watched North Korean ridding their bikes, and it breaks my heart they don’t have any idea of what is happening in the outside world.
Thanks to you both for bringing this to us. Thanks for your perspectives also. Yes, it is sad. It reminds me of Pakistan and Bangladesh. It's so important that we see this, even if it is through your eyes and not directly through our own. You are doing us all a great service. 🙏🙏🙏
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Great show!
Enlightening and informative
Great video guys! How sad. I didn’t know all the details of the north and South Korea. Still silently at war. Soon once the older generation are no more all ties will be lost. 😟. I don’t think you’re naive Julia!! I’m right there with you!! Xx
This is nostalgic and emotional coming from a filipino American 🇺🇸 I was stationed there back in the day and I’m not Korean I feel their pain and sadness
Q: Is Irish and English people same? Same applies here between, South and north Korea. Okay? Okay. ☆〜（ゝ。∂）
You asking if England and Ireland are similar is tantamount to a westerner asking you if Korea and Japan are the same. Ireland’s history like Korea’s, being located close to the larger more powerful countries, Japan and England, with conquest and subjugation being their motivations, are the differences.
@@xxxxxx-tq4mw I was asking about the cultural things not power to MattandJulia to let them know it.
2:24
there's no "sea of japan"
only "east sea"
한국 소개하면서 일본해가 쓰인지도를 소개하다니 ㄷㄷ
We love US and A
Can you guys do a travel video about Estonia?
If you haven't already visited Busan, please do so. I spent a few years there and fell in love with it! I especially recommend Gwangalli Beach.
Thank you so much for the recommendation! ❤️🙌🏼
North Korea is very interesting. Actually, DMZ is along the 38th parallel. Stay safe, guys.
25:15 did you eat without sauce? (red chil pepper paste) I this this sauce is the key of a bowl of raw fish rice food. next time i hope you cna try to use the sauce even a little
Недавно в новостях было. Северная Корея принимает туристов из России на горнолыжном курорте. Планируют запустить пассажирские поезда. Курортик прямо скажем не хилый 😀
Thanks you so much for this new remarkable video from North Korea to shows these amazing places in 2024❤❤❤❤
A nation divided, Families torn apart.Tragedy.
Matt and Julia, you are such an amazing couple. Thank you so much for this video about that forbidden area. I am an American (don't hold that against me, I'm not a Trump supporter), and I have been raised to dislike the North Koreans. I don't dislike them, I don't care for their leader, but the people of North Korea need their freedom. I feel bad for them, as many have been separated from family members in South Korea for decades older than me.
The thing that I notice is the lack of rubbish seen on the streets of Korea. The Korean people have respect of their neighbourhoods.
Julia, you made the right decision not going down into the tunnel. I went down and it felt so claustrophobic. Luckily we had to wear hard hats because I smacked my head on the ceiling a few times... but I wasn't the only one 😅
I love crab so much would have pleaded for buying it fresh from steamer and promptly sat down and dug in even without melted butter. When it comes to crab, I am an ugly american. Thanks for the tour my father was stationed in Korea the year before I was born. Never heard about it when was old enough to understand but think it affected him deeply
Pray
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Hello everybody thanks for your vidéo! One day will you travelto DPRK, North korea?
Spies. Told you. :)
A question for Julia - are you tempted to use your Russian passport to visit North Korea over the Russia/North Korea border?
Hey Peter. It isn’t that easy, on any passport you need to go on a tour and besides it is still officially closed because of the pandemic x
@@MattandJulia Saw a group of Russian tourists visiting North Korea recently.
In late February, yes. They will be the first group inside the country since 2020. But so far, that’s all, no further details on a reopening yet 🙂
0:23 never heard that bird before in real life 🦜
अछा लगा
a very interesting vlog, North Korea is such a bad , worrying , place, like everybody else, i wish it could be sorted out and become peaceful
Absolutely BRILLIANT, what more can I say, love ya loads, hope to meet you one day in Ukraine 🇺🇦 or London ❤❤-♥️ one for sis 😉👍
Korea was divided instead of Japan after end of WW-II Japanese Pacific war 1945.
USSR Soviet union into Korea. and..
U.S army come into Korea at the same time in 1945
for taking geometric possession of the East Asia ideological boundary.
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they're not saying that the fish is from Russia... It says the fish is domestic on the sign above the fish. I think he asked you guys if you guys were from Russia since there's direct ships from Russia to Donghae