link: https://imgur.com/a/BybJ7DQ

[reposting for our new lib friends]

The album includes pictures from Hamhung, Chongjin, Sinuiju, Nampo, Wonsan, Kaesong, Sariwon, Pyongsong, Haeju, and Anju.

There are some descriptions along the way (mostly just city names + general info)

I also included rural photos, and some showing various housing/development projects

kim-peace

edit: i put together the album sometime last year. most pictures are pre-pandemic and sourced from various travel blogs and instagram accounts

  • Sasuke [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    i wish i had put some information/statistics about how awful the firebombing of korea was in the original album.

    sariwon, for instance, was almost completely reduced to rubble (the US air force estimated the destruction to be at 95%). and yet all wikipedia has to say about the city is that its folk costume street—a popular tour spot, built to showcase old korean traditions and customs—is an "inaccurate romanticized recreation" of an "ideal picture of ancient Korea."

    there's no mention of the bombing; not attempt to explain why a street built to preserve old traditions, customs and architectural styles might be important for the city. if it can't be explained as some devious, state-sponsored brainwashing plot, then it's not worth mentioning