When I got on the Pyongyang subway...Russian YouTuber North Korea's travel experience story revealed 'the topic'

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A Russian travel YouTuber is drawing attention by revealing his daily life in downtown Pyongyang after visiting North Korea.

Victor, a travel YouTuber with 220,000 subscribers, shared his travel experiences in North Korea by posting a video titled "Pyongyang Subway (2024), North Korea" on his YouTube channel on the 26th.

Victor said earlier that he had traveled to North Korea for four nights and five days last month. The video showed the inside of the subway and the history taken in Pyongyang.

Victor said he visited Mansudae Fountain Park, the Victory Memorial of the War on the Liberation of the Fatherland, the Juche Tower, the Pyongyang Subway, the Mangyeongdae Boys' Palace, and the Pyongyang Circus.

Tourists are known to be able to visit and shoot only some permitted places.

According to the video, Victor and his party experienced the Pyongyang subway from Buheung Station to Yeonggwang Station and Bojang Station. The Revival Station was a relatively simple interior, but Yeonggwang Station was decorated with high vaulted ceilings, colorful lights, and Kim Il-sung portraits.

The video also shows the area around the Arc de Triomphe where the Arc de Triomphe was built and downtown Pyongyang. The Pyongyang road was wide and organized, but there were not many vehicles, and citizens were seen jaywalking by pulling back cars.

The video also showed local students wearing school uniforms passing by in groups. One of them, wearing a black hooded zip-up hat, wore a bag with a large logo of Under Armour, an American sports brand. North Korea is also banning wearing jeans, saying they are a symbol of U.S. imperialism.

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Victor said the five-day tour cost from Vladivostok, Russia, totaled $1,378 (about 1.91 million won), including flights, accommodation and meals.

Domestic netizens who saw the video said, "It's the same as the Moscow subway in Russia," and "The world has improved." "I watch Pyongyang on my cell phone in the corner of my room," "It looks like Korea in the 1980s and 1990s," and "Why in North Korea? He must be a high-ranking child."

Reporter Park Sun-young of Digital News Team