By Tongil Tours partner Nikolai Johnsen who led, and took part in the program. In 2016, Tongil Tours organised the first ever open language program for Western students in the DPRK (North Korea), in which our founding partner Alek Sigley became the first Australian to ever study at a DPRK university. We successfully arranged another language program this year (2017), in which the author, Nikolai Johnsen, became the first Norwegian to study in the DPRK. We had a diverse and much larger group than last year, with participants from Australia, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Canada, Britain and the USA. Overview: Classes at Kim Hyong Jik University of Education, Pyongyang This year we had 2.5 hours of Korean classes at Kim Hyong Jik University of Education every weekday (in 2018 it will be 3.5 hours a day). We had quite a packed itinerary, going around Pyongyang every day, but we stopped by… [Read More]
Archives for October 2017
Ever thought about travelling to North Korea?- An Australian Tourist in the DPRK
Below is an essay written by a young Australian tourist who came on one of our tours to North Korea in 2016. He wrote this as an assignment for a university journalism course that he took while completing his masters degree in international relations. We thought it was so eloquently written that we just had to share it here. Ever thought about travelling to North Korea? ‘I have made a terrible mistake.’ My acrophobic companion’s face was ashen, his hands clutching the safety bars of the strange, upside down roller coaster in Kaeson Youth Park, Pyongyang. Hanging alongside him, I couldn’t help but agree. Why was I here again? Eight days and nights in a country doesn’t seem like enough to change how you view it, but when you visit a place like North Korea (or, as our guides insisted we call it, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) your… [Read More]
