As you may well know by now, April 15th this year was the biggest holiday in recent North Korean history, and Koryo Tours and our customers were lucky enough to be on the ground as it all happened. Following the failure of the rocket/satellite launch a few days before the event, the North proceeded to [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Nick and I visited the DPRK with a group of 30 to be in Pyongyang for the celebrations of the birthday of Kim Jong Il on February 16th which has now been given an official name – The Day of the Shining Star (Kwangmyongsong Chol). Kim Il Sung’s birthday on the 15th April has been [...]
Read the rest of this entry »COLOGNE, Germany (AP) -Cologne says its has signed North Korea striker Jong Tae Se from second-division side Bochum.
The Bundesliga club did not disclose how much it paid for the 27-year-old forward or the length of the contract.
Jong, who is called Chong Tese in Germany, will step in for the injured Lukas Podolski who was ruled [...]
In a bit of a meta-post I’d like to list some of the finest NK – related blogs that we here at Koryo Tours think are worth reading by anyone interested in anything DPRK, here they are in no particular order; bookmark them all!
NKEconWatch – run by the very knowledgeable and personable Curtis Melvin this [...]
The North Korea (DPRK) debit card market just got a whole lot more competitive! In addition to the Narae Card (link to previous post) there is now a rival scheme in effect called the Koryo Card (really original name! nothing to do with us!) This system has not yet come online but is being started [...]
Read the rest of this entry »All sorts of news in Dandong…
the Yalu River Bridge; approx 20 min south of the current bridge and main trade route to North Korea is now reaching across the river from both the Chinese and North Korean side
http://www.nkeconwatch.com/2011/06/08/sinuiju-sar-take-5/
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Read the rest of this entry »Simon Cockerell from Koryo Tours comments on the happenings from the last tour:
Our March Madness/Tax Abolition Day Tour to North Korea was the 100th time I have visited the DPRK, sadly there were no military parades in my honour but that didn’t stop the tour from being very memorable and with much to report. We [...]
> The first screening of a European feature film in North Korea – what an end to the year
In 2004 Koryo Tours together with Ealing Studios and the British Embassy screened the film Bend it Like Beckham at the Pyongyang International Film Festival, it was seen by over 12,000 Pyongyang citizens and was the film [...]
Read the rest of this entry »You can now follow Koryo Tours in Twitter! Look up koryotours and be up-to-date on what is happening!
British-run Koryo Tours has a 17 year history of running tours to the DPRK and is universally recognised as being the only experts in the field, trust us to take you in, around, and out of the most [...]
