Korean Job Discussion Forums

[matthews_world]

[crazylemongirl]

there's a site somewhere that details an americna who teaches in seoul that went up there... I'll see if I can find it.

[heydelores]

The American Red Cross doesn't let you donate blood if you've spent significant time in countries where mad cow disease has been found (mostly Europe) or in certain parts of West Africa where HIV Group O is found. You also have to wait between one and three years after being in a country where malaria is present before you can give blood.

[buster brown]

I've been there with an NGO before, but we didn't do much of the touristy stuff. Here are a couple of websites with more info.
Koryo Tours - Has info about tours of North Korea, travel dates, links to DPRK news and travelogues: http://www.koryogroup.com/
Scott Fischer's "Journey Into Kimland" blog (Is this the one you were thinking about CLG?): http://1stopkorea.com/index.htm?nk-trip1.htm~mainframe

As the Lonely Planet guide so eloquently puts it, "Visiting [North Korea] will instantly make you the most interesting person you know". Go, then come back and blog about it!

[matthews_world]

Here's a link that's been posted on here before including Pyongyang photos from a Russian gentleman married to a North Korean I believe. A little generic yet fascinating.

http://www.enlight.ru:8005/camera/dprk/

Another site:

http://www.travel-images.com/korean.html


There's a North American set up that runs Pyongyang tours but clueless about their info. They'll help you do all the paperwork, etc.

[Hotpants]

North Korean immigration is fickle about letting Americans in. Personally, I considered the Koryo tour group as mentioned above, but decided in the end, that I wasn't going to pay 2 million won for the visa cost which much all in effect end up in the pockets of Kim Jong Il. I didn't want to fund him over the needy people. Also, any such tour is HEAVILY restricted. Evenings are limited to drinking in the basement bar of your hotel, for example.

An easy alternative is to go on the Mount Kumgang tour from South Korea. A 3 day tour costs from 400,000.

[just because]

[nene]