Koryo Tours is proud to present for the second year running our totally unique and revolutionary tour to the Magadan region of Russia; the far North east and a place almost never visited by tourists – abandoned towns and an amazingly well preserved ghost city visited for the first time by tourists in 2011, camping [...]

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 [...]

Dear All,
We have just been informed that we can accept more applications for the tours that we are running over April 15th, the 100th anniversary of the birth of North Korean eternal president Kim Il Sung(our partners define this period as being between April 7 -20). We have been given the deadline of February 28th [...]

My name is Cornelia, I am the newest staff member with Koryo Tours. Together with Amanda and Jasmine I am in charge of our independent tours. Today I want to tell you about a group tour though, the Winter Tour 2011, our last group tour of the year and my first trip ever to DPRK.
We [...]

SUNAN AIRPORT
..bad news: you walk from the plane
…good news: two luggage belts
Tourists disembarking Air Koryo and expecting the aeroplane passenger bus to whisk them the 100 metres to customs at the old airport are in for a shock…the plane now parks closer to the terminal buildings and passengers walk to the new ‘temporary’ customs building [...]

Koryo Tours is proud to be able to announce that we have now posted dates, prices, and itineraries for our tours in the first half of 2012 on our website and they are all available for booking! Read also more about the latest news and interesting updates!
:: 1. Travel in 2012
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On April 16th Koryo Tours had the honour of taking the first group of tourists ever to attend a domestic football match in North Korea, something we have been trying to do for years finally coming to fruition! The match in question was part of the Mangyongdae Prize Cup tournament that takes place every April [...]

Jasmine Khou’s notes from the March Madness Tour in 2010
On the March Madness Tour at the DMZ, Demilitarized Zone, something quite interesting happened. When the groups all were in the Panmun Pavilion viewing the line that represents the border and the last frontier of the Cold War, we saw that there was some sort of [...]

Koryo Tours, the planet’s leading North Korea travel specialists invite you to get a glimpse of another culture without ever leaving Shanghai. This month, Koryo is showing their award-winning documentary, The Game of Their Lives, which chronicles  the 1966 World Cup’s “greatest sports story never told”, when the underdog North Korean football team defeated the [...]

May Day in North Korea is a public holiday and one of the few days where you where you can take on the locals at a tug-of-war or just wander unaccompanied through the crowds for a few hours, the best chance to mingle with mysterious Pyongyangers! In addition to the usual holiday events the Koreans [...]