Posted in May 4, 2012 ¬ 8:02 amh.Hannah
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 [...]
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Posted in January 31, 2012 ¬ 8:52 amh.Koryo Tours
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 [...]
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Posted in December 14, 2011 ¬ 8:39 amh.Koryo Tours
North Korea Novels
While the TV and movie world have been going gaga of late over adaptations of crime novels ranging from the Inspector Wallander books, Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, the various Holmes revivals and so on those of us with an eye on the North Korea novel scene can still hope for a film or [...]
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Posted in February 24, 2011 ¬ 6:10 amh.Simo
> 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 [...]
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Cultural Exchange, DPRK news, Football, Friendship, International organisations, PeopleBend it Like Beckham, DPRK, Football, Koryo Tours, Middlesbrough, Pyongyang International Film Festival
Posted in February 23, 2011 ¬ 4:36 amh.Simo
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 [...]
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