The real life of North Korea: as seen from the car window in the DPRK

After a trip to North Korea, photographer Eric Luffforth shares his impressions of how weirdly intertwined sensations from the “official Korea” when traveling around the country with a guide who doesn’t even make a sanitary stop under the pretext of “road hazards”, and from the real one real life of people in the outback. There, the government does not control every step, inhale and exhale, so you can see huge empty tracks along which ordinary Korean boys ride bicycles.

Luffforg captured his journey along the North Korean highway, showing us a "cut" of life and local customs, which are usually inaccessible to foreigners.

These concrete blocks are here in case of an American invasion. To block the passage.

In order not to break the law, before entering Pyongyang, you need to wash off the dirt from the bus. And they do it with a small rag.

Surely many have heard that Koreans dried corn on the roads. They really do it.

In general, the track here is a nice, quiet place where you can not be afraid for children running out onto the road or enjoy riding a bicycle.

Or even walk geese.

It's funny, but the only ad allowed to show is a car ad.

Quite often, while traveling along the highway, there are various propaganda posters.

Watch the video: The North Korea I wasnt meant to see (March 2024).

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