north korea | vice
My boyfriend and I are really into documentaries, it’s our go-to genre on Netflix. We’ve also gotten really into some of the Vice documentaries, especially “The Vice Guide to Travel” series. It’s a mini series, which follows Vice employees travelling to dangerous, often weird and offbeat location across the globe. A few weeks ago we watched the the episode “Inside North Korea” (unfortunately not on Netflix. You Tube link below). Not knowing much about North Korea I found this particular episode very educational and simply bizarre, learning about such an isolated and “staged” country. I’ve now made my way through most of Vice’s travel episodes and highly recommend them.
Learning about North Korea from the guys at Vice made me think of a photo series I had seen in the past by photographer David De Vleeschauwer who was granted a short trip into the highly guarded North Korea. I remember being very drawn into his photos, inspired by the cohesive colour schemes, awesome composition and amazed at the emptiness and lack of habitants in the city.
Below are a few of my favourite shots from this series. If you want to learn more about what it’s like to visit North Korea view the Vice episode here or read more about David De Vleeschauwer’s trip here.
I love documentaries about North Korea, they are so interesting. National Geographic have a really good one on Netflix that I quite enjoyed.
Awesome, I’ll have to check out some of the National Geographic ones.
I watched both documentaries and they were so good. I’m so glad this post popped up on my feed last night. It’s insane how pretty the Vice documentary was but the reality of 23 million people being held captive from the rest of the world is crazy. I’m totally engaging in learning way too much about North Korea now. I feel like we rarely discuss it outside of the occasionally joke or news article but the history behind the people and how the nation has developed is fascinating.
It’s true. There is so many things on this planet that are so interesting/awesome/fascinating/wrong/distrurbing and I feel like most people don’t even know about it. I’m all for further building my knowledge!
This is very interesting! I’m watching the videos now :)
I grew up South Korea and moved to U.S after high school, I remember I went to DMZ for felid trip, It was so close to see the “staged” town when weather was clear and nice. Most South Koreans, including me, have really strange feeling toward to North Korea, same people same language, and same thousands of history but 65 years of extreme separation drove each country so far away. It’s certainly fascinating to watch the video from a perspective of other people.