From South to North Koreaโ€ฆ Will They Let Me In? (Again) ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ต

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I signed up for the Pyongyang International Marathon to be part of the first group of "athletes" allowed into North Korea after the borders slammed shut five years ago.

For the past six years, Iโ€™ve dedicated myself to learning Koreaโ€™s historyโ€”both North and Southโ€”which has earned me several awards and the title of Honorary Citizen of Seoul. But my curiosity doesnโ€™t stop at the DMZ. I wanted to go beyond the border, to meet North Koreans face-to-face, speak with them in Korean (as best I could), and see the people behind the regime.

This was actually my second visit to North Koreaโ€”my last trip was in December 2018, just months before the borders closed. But this time, it felt different. With my backgroundโ€”living in South Korea, married to a South Korean, and having made videos with North Korean defectorsโ€”I honestly wasnโ€™t sure if they'd even let me in. And if they did, how would they react to me?

This is the first episode of that journey: how I traveled from South Korea to Pyongyang, got my visa, and flew with the infamous 1-star-rated Air Koryo.

Enjoy the adventure.

์ œ๊ฐ€ ํ‰์–‘๊ตญ์ œ๋งˆ๋ผํ†ค์„ ์‹ ์ฒญํ•œ ์ด์œ ๋Š”, ๊ตญ๊ฒฝ์ด ๋‹ซํžŒ ์ง€ 5๋…„ ๋งŒ์— ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋ถํ•œ ์ž…๊ตญ์ด ํ—ˆ์šฉ๋œ โ€˜์„ ์ˆ˜โ€™ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์— ํฌํ•จ๋˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‚จ๊ณผ ๋ถ, ํ•œ๋ฐ˜๋„์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ง€๋‚œ 6๋…„๊ฐ„ ๊พธ์ค€ํžˆ ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ•ด ์™”๊ณ , ๊ทธ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ ๋•๋ถ„์— ๋ช‡๋ช‡ ์ƒ์„ ์ˆ˜์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์„œ์šธ์‹œ ๋ช…์˜ˆ์‹œ๋ฏผ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์นญํ˜ธ๋„ ๋ฐ›๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ €์˜ ํ˜ธ๊ธฐ์‹ฌ์€ DMZ์—์„œ ๋ฉˆ์ถ”์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตญ๊ฒฝ ๋„ˆ๋จธ ๋ถํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ์ง์ ‘ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๊ณ , ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋กœ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๋ฉฐ, ์ฒด์ œ ๋’ค์— ์žˆ๋Š” โ€˜์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“คโ€™์„ ์ง์ ‘ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋ฒˆ์ด ๋ถํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ์€ ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒ˜์Œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ์€ 2018๋…„ 12์›”, ๊ตญ๊ฒฝ์ด ๋‹ซํžˆ๊ธฐ ์ง์ „์ด์—ˆ์ฃ . ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋ฒˆ์—๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋‹ฌ๋ž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
ํ•œ๊ตญ์— ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ์ž๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํƒˆ๋ถ๋ฏผ๋“ค๊ณผ๋„ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์˜จ ์ €์˜ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ž…๊ตญ ์ž์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งŒ์•ฝ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ„๋‹ค ํ•ด๋„, ๋ถํ•œ ์ธก์ด ์ €๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ผ์ง€ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ์ฃ .

์ด ์˜์ƒ์€ ๊ทธ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์—ฌ์ •์˜ ์‹œ์ž‘์„ ๋‹ด์€ ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์—ํ”ผ์†Œ๋“œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ํ‰์–‘์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์—ฌ์ •, ๋น„์ž๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์•…๋ช… ๋†’์€ ๋ณ„์  1์ ์งœ๋ฆฌ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•ญ๊ณต ํƒ‘์Šน๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€.

์ด์ œ, ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ทธ ๋ชจํ—˜์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ด๋ณผ๊นŒ์š”?

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๐Ÿ“Œ ์ž๋ง‰ ์žˆ์–ด์š”! (KorยทEng subs availableโ€”turn them on!)
Correction: The Air Koryo plane isnโ€™t Soviet; itโ€™s a Tu-204 and not as old as I thought.
์ˆ˜์ •: ๊ณ ๋ คํ•ญ๊ณต ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ๋Š” ์†Œ๋ จ์ œ(๊ตฌ์†Œ๋ จ์ œ)๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ํˆฌํด๋ ˆํ”„ Tu-204 ๊ธฐ์ข…์ด๊ณ , ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์˜ค๋ž˜๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

iGoBart
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ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ์ด๋ฉด ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šธ์ˆ˜๋ฐ–์— ์—†์ฃ ... 1์„ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ๋œ, ๋ถˆ๊ณผ ๋ช‡ ์„ธ๋Œ€์ „์— ํ•œ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์˜€๋˜ ๊ณณ์„
์ œ 3์ž๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด์„œ ๋ฐ–์— ๋ณผ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š”๊ฒŒ ์•„์‰ฝ๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค

KiDNEY
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์•„๋‹ˆ ๋ฌด์‚ฌํžˆ ๊ฐ„ ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์‹ ๊ธฐํ•œ๋ฐ ๊ฝค ์ง์ ‘์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜์˜ค๋Š”๋ฐ๋„ ์•ˆ ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฌด์‚ฌํžˆ ์ฐ์–ด์˜จ๊ฒŒ ๋” ์‹ ๊ธฐํ•˜๋„ค์š” ใ„ทใ„ทใ„ท ๋‚จ๋“ค์€ ์ฐ๋‹ค ๊ฑธ๋ ค์„œ ์ง€์› ๋‹ค๋Š”๋ฐ ์‚ด์•„์žˆ๋Š”๊ฑด ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์€ ์•ˆ ๊ฑธ๋ ธ๋‹ค๋Š”๊ฑฐ๋‹ˆ ํ›„๋œ๋œ

๊ณต์ž‘์†Œ
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I've been watching a lot of these Pyongyang Marathon videos and your one easily seems to be the best. You know about Korean culture on an intimate level and can speak some of the language! I really hope I can go to Pyongyang next year for the marathon.

kyeongmin
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์•„๋‚ด๋ถ„๊ป˜์„œ ๊ฑฑ์ •ํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ํ‘œ์ • ๋ณด๋ฉด์„œ..ํ˜น์—ฌ๋‚˜ ๋ฌด์‚ฌํžˆ ๋ชป ๋Œ์•„์˜ค์ง€ ์•Š์„๊นŒํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑฑ์ •์ด ๋ณด์—ฌ์„œ ๊ฐ™์ด ๋–จ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ์ƒํ•˜์…จ์–ด์š”๐Ÿ˜Š

lego
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Welcome back! Abesolutely wild you went over.

this_waterbottle
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์น˜ํŠธํ‚ค๊ฐ€ ์™”์–ด์š”!! ใ…Žใ…Ž ์•„๋ผ๊ณ  ์•„๋ผ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ด์ œ ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๋‹ค์ŒํŽธ๋„ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์˜ฌ๋ ค์ฃผ์‹ค๊ฑฐ์ฃ ? ใ…Žใ…Ž

leviathanjin
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Great to see a video shot by someone who at least understands Korean culture in general and willing to explore the differences in North Korea. This is much more beneficial and entertaining to us who are genuinely interested in Korean culture and willing to understand North Korea more deeply. Really despise those YouTubers going there just to shoot a travelogue for views and sensationalism.

hilarywong
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์ •๋ง ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ ์ž…์žฅ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋‚˜๋„ ์‹ ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ท€ํ•œ ์˜์ƒ์ด๋„ค์š”
๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋‚˜๋ˆ ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!!

jjqjj
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์™€ ์ด๊ฑด ๊ท€ํ•˜๋„ค์š” ใ„ทใ„ท ๊ฐ„ํ˜น ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์ด ๋ถํ•œ๊ฐ€์„œ ์ฐ์€์˜์ƒ ๋ณด๊ณคํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ํ•œ๊ตญ์— ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด๊ฐ€์„œ ์ฐ์€๊ฑฐ๋ผ ๋‚จ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์˜๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”๊ฑฐ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

real_red
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์™€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ํฌ๊ท€ํ•œ ์˜์ƒ์ด๋„ค์š” ..! ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์˜์ƒ์œผ๋กœ๋ผ๋„ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ์‹ ๊ธฐํ•ด์š” ใ…‹ใ…‹ใ…‹ ์งฑ!

์ด์„ฑ๋นˆ-ki
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์œค์„์—ด ํƒ„ํ•ต์„ ์‹ ๋ฌธ์— ๋„ฃ์€๊ฑด ์ง„์งœ ๋ฉ์ฒญํ•œ ๋“ฏ ๋‚จํ•œ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์ž๊ธฐ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์„ ๋งˆ์Œ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋Œ์–ด ๋‚ด๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ํฌ์ธํŠธ๋กœ ์ž‘์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ใ…‹ใ…‹ใ…‹ใ…‹

๋ฆฌ์ค€-ds
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์˜ค๋งˆ์ด๊ฐ“, ์˜ˆ์ „์— ๋˜ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜์‹ค ์ง€ ์˜ฌ๋ ธ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ง„์งœ ์ด๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋„ค์š”!!

seankimde
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์™€!! ๋‹คํ๋ฉ˜ํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•˜์–ด์š”^^ ์ •๋ง ์ž˜๋ดค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ด์š”!! ๋ถํ•œ๋„ ์กฐ๊ธˆ์”ฉ ์กฐ๊ธˆ์”ฉ ๋ญ”๊ฐ€ ์—ด์–ด๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋А๋‚Œ์ด ๋“œ๋„ค์š”..^^

nathankim
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๋‹จ์ˆœ ํŠน์ •๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ์ฐฌ์–‘ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ •๋ณด์ „๋‹ฌ์— ํฌ์ปค์Šค๋ฅผ ํ•œ๊ฒŒ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ข‹๋‹ค

mepachean-uf
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Only watched the intro and already got chills! Cant wait for this series!

mikast
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