Preface
Overseas travel is very popular in recent years, tourists want to go to various countries to see different customs, Chinese tourists choose the most are often relatively close to a few, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, etc., but North Korea is called the most "mysterious" country in Northeast Asia, tourists who go to play do not return to the map, and do not contact with the country after going.
Is North Korea so fun that it doesn't even have the time to reply to the news, after learning the truth, netizens suddenly realized that there are five strange rules when stepping into the land of North Korea, and if you accidentally touch one, you may "lose your life", so what are the rules?
With a mobile phone Internet
The first thing a tourist should do after choosing a country must be to find a travel agency, some people feel that they can't play well with a group and want to travel by car, and the first rule in North Korea is that individual travel is not accepted.
That is to say, if you want to go to North Korea, you have to follow the travel group, and the tour group can only go to the specified areas and places, no matter which group comes to only that prescribed route, many places in North Korea have forbidden area notices, writing that tourists are not allowed to enter.
But it doesn't mean that when you go to North Korea, you will be strictly controlled in your personal freedom, eating in the cafeteria, walking from your seat to the wall to get paper, this is allowed, and touring around in the designated exhibition area of the museum is also allowed, and it can be seen that the scope of free movement allowed is very small.
But in the process of playing, it is inevitable that you will fall behind, and at this time, a group of people will soon appear next to you, not tour group workers, but the North Korean military, who will think that you are standing alone on the road and wandering around, asking about their country's military situation, and arresting you as a spy.
There was an American guy who experienced this before, and he was sentenced to 15 years in prison just because he went to the first floor of the hotel that was not open, so he said that if he wanted to go to North Korea, he must find a travel agency.
Then when you find a good travel agency, pack your bags and prepare to go to North Korea, there are the following situations at the customs will stop you, the first is wearing strange clothes, in the eyes of Chinese, jeans, short skirts, off-the-shoulder tops are very ordinary daily wear, but in the eyes of North Koreans is strange clothes.
It is not allowed to wear overly colorful clothes when going to North Korea, women must wear tightly wrapped, only their hands and heads are exposed, and men often have to wear darker clothes, after all, North Korean men we see from various documentaries always wear tunics.
Not only that, if you carry a mobile phone with you, you will also be detained at customs, it is strictly forbidden to carry a mobile phone when entering North Korea, and you can only get your mobile phone when you leave after going to North Korea, even if you sneak your mobile phone into the territory, there is no Internet when you go in.
Because of North Korea's "closed country" and comprehensive Internet blockade, many North Korean people do not have smartphones, and they still use the kind of elderly machines that China used in the last century, and North Korea does not have as many Internet cafes as China.
So it's not that you don't want to contact people in China when you travel to North Korea, it's not that North Korea is fun, it's just that the network is not developed there.
So since you don't call the people in the country, you can take pictures of the scenery in North Korea, right? And this is the next strange rule of North Korea, prohibiting filming.
Take a picture of the currency
On the Douyin platform, you can always see ordinary people sharing some daily life, such as children and cats and dogs fighting, two people quarreling on the street, these can be shared, and it has become a boring life to relieve boredom.
If you travel to North Korea and see someone arguing on the street, you want to post it on the Internet and say, "It's fun for them to quarrel." "We see it as sharing the North Koreans' quarrels, but in their eyes it's an insult to the country's image.
I thought it was just a fun, but maybe before you sent out the news, the North Korean army on the street looted your mobile phone, and then a few big men kidnapped you to a small black room and began to interrogate, what were you filming just now? Who are you?
It is not until everything is investigated clearly that it is indeed inadvertently filmed by tourists that they will let you go, and the North Korean side refuses to shoot all the bad content for them, so don't you want to take pictures of exotic scenery for your family to see?
Well, the photo album was deleted by the military personnel on the street, and the customs officer asked to clean up the album again when leaving the country, and even fell asleep on the plane at some times, and the flight attendant will forcibly wake you up to see if there is anything that should not be photographed in the album, which was published on April 13, 2010.
I have to say that North Korea is really "rigorous", and sometimes it is understandable to let people all over the world see their country, isn't it a good thing for more people to come to travel?
At a time when all countries are hoping for more and more tourists, North Korea is limiting the flow of foreign tourists and allowing only as many foreign tourists as they enter each day, which has a definite number and has not changed for so many years.
The last one is that it is forbidden to contact foreign culture in North Korea, to prohibit the use of foreign currency, and only to use what they have stipulated, and foreign culture, such as putting some songs from other countries on the streets of North Korea, or watching entertainment variety shows from other countries, is not approved.
The currency in North Korea can only be used in North Korean currency or yuan or US dollars, this rule is quite friendly to Chinese tourists, because to travel to North Korea, you do not need to exchange the local currency first, you can directly take the yuan, and it is not very applicable to some other countries.
However, more than 80% of the foreign tourists received by North Korea every week are Chinese, and Global Network New Media reported on July 16, 2019 that more and more Chinese tourists are visiting North Korea, so it is understandable to allow the use of RMB in China.
These are the strange rules for traveling to North Korea, although they sound incredible and strict, but we don't comment on the culture of other countries, since the rules exist, we must abide by them.
After all, North Korea only wants to show its best side to the world, and there is nothing too excessive about North Korea except for the bad attitude of non-North Korean aviation workers.
Compared with some Southeast Asian countries, the treatment of Chinese tourists differently, North Korea has not been a little better, Vietnam even a small commodity is clearly priced, the lowest price for its own local people to the Chinese twice the price, and even some places say that Chinese tourists are forbidden to enter.
In addition to Vietnam, Japan, South Korea is also the same in some places, the strong consumption power of Chinese tourists is obvious to the whole world, Chinese tourists go to drive the local consumption power, drive tourism, many countries can't ask for it, these countries actually use this means to refuse, which is why North Korea has many regulations but the reason why tourists are endless.
Primary sources
Phoenix.com, April 13, 2010 - Organize a group to travel to North Korea and remember the ten taboos
Global Network2019-07-16 1——Why do Chinese go to North Korea more?
Shangguan News2024-02-14 ——Foreign media: About 100 Russian tour groups arrived in Pyongyang, North Korea welcomed the first batch of foreign tourists after the epidemic