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 »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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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Mangyongdae Prize Cup football tournament in Pyongyang is taking place between March 29 and April 29 this year, after pressure from Koryo Tours the DPRK authorities have agreed to allow access to this tournament to foreign tourists for the first time. Basically this is DPRK’s domestic league played over the course of one month and [...]
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No tax on the March tour! – Our March Madness tour this year is closing fast but we still have time and space to add more people to this economically priced but amazing trip. The full details are online at:
http://www.koryogroup.com/travel_Itinerary_2011_3.php
and we’re accepting applications until the end of this month. The chance to be [...]
Grand Magic Festival in May Day Stadium
This is an all new event that is taking place for the first time this year between April 18th and May 9th in the massive May Day Stadium in Pyongyang. The exact nature of the event is thus-far unclear so we cannot confirm or deny that any actual [...]
We’d like to take this opportunity to wish you all a happy Christmas and New Year; we hope 2011 brings all you wish for. Just in case what you’re wishing for is a trip to North Korea this message may come in handy; if you’re planning your break already then why not consider this trip? [...]
Read the rest of this entry »The Game of Their Lives
VeryMuchSo Production and Koryo Tours in conjuction with Passion Pictures and BBC4. Dan Gordon (Director/Producer) Nicholas Bonner (Associate Producer)
‘The greatest sports story never told’
-Ron Gluckman, Asian Wall Street Journal, Jan 2002
In 2003, ‘The Game of Their Lives’ won the Royal Television Society award for best sports documentary, received a nomination [...]
