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A soldier on duty outside the May Day Stadium.
Arirang is held in May Day Stadium in Pyongyang for almost two months each year in September and October. The stadium holds 150,000 people, but due to the nature of the spectacle only about 40,000 seats are available for the audience. It starts at 8pm and lasts for 90 minutes.
Arirang is reported to have 100,000 performers including a card section of 20,000 students. The card section is essentially a giant display of 20,000 human pixels that is capable of split second changes.
The other 80,000 performers are beautiful women, soldiers, young people, gymnasts, singers, muscians, acrobats, or children as young as four or five. They are not paid for their performance.
Photo made Explore January 27, 2008, #482
Early morning sunrise over Pyongyang. Juche Tower sticking up out of the mist on the right, early morning fog.
Maternity entrance in Pyongyang. You have to remove your shoes to put slippers, and to wear a white blouse. I didn't play doctor since i was 8!
© Eric Lafforgue
Just watching a softball game in Pyongyang downtown - kids like everywhere in the world back from school.
Pyongyang - DPR Korea
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Pyongyang view, taken from Yanggakdo hotel. You can find a famous satellite picture on the net showing a map of the Korean peninsula by night, with a huge difference between the north and south. In North Korea, there is no public lighting, and people use very low wattage bulbs in their houses. The North Korean capital is as surreal by night as it is by day. Due to the fuel crisis there's hardly any traffic to be heard after dark, and nightlife is virtually non-existent. Only monuments are lit during local festivities.
Every hour, on the hour, from 6 am to midnight, loudspeakers blast out a patriotic song.
Tourists are totally forbidden from leaving their hotels to walk around town, even though Pyongyang is safe, that’s the rule.
The outsides of the buildings are regularly painted and renovated, but inside, they are rather run down.
Few words from the official website of North Korean tourism:
Pyongyang, capital of DPRK is the centre of politics, the economy and culture.
It has a 5,000-year history as a capital city, since Tangun, founder king, established Ancient Korea and set Pyongyang as its capital.
The Moran Hill, the Garden of the Capital is full of flowers and the picturesque River Taedong flows through the city centre. It seems Pyongyang nestles in park.
Such surroundings make Pyongyang the World Best Beauty.
Une célèbre photo satellite qui circule sur le web montre la péninsule coréenne de nuit, avec le sud éclairé et le nord plongé dans le noir. En Corée du
Nord, il n’y a pas d’éclairage public, et les appartements sont éclairés avec le strict minimum. Seuls les bâtiments publics sont éclairés en période de
festivités. Peu de véhicules circulent en ville, et la capitale est plongée de jour comme de nuit dans un silence impressionnant. La ville résonne toutes les
heures, de 6 h du matin à minuit de chants patriotiques diffusés par des hauts parleurs.
Il est interdit aux touristes de se promener seuls sans guides en ville et de quitter leur hôtel. Pyongyang est une ville sûre, mais c’est la règle.
Les façades des immeubles sont régulièrement repeintes et rénovées, mais l'intérieur est généralement en mauvais état.
© Eric Lafforgue
City view of Pyongyang. The pyramid-shaped building is the Ryugyong Hotel, under construction since 1987. Picture taken from the 30th floor of the Yanggakdo Hotel.
This was one of the most strange moments - when we finally arrived in Pyongyang. Through the courtains of the compartment window, we looked at a surreal scene that appeared like something out of a theatre in its perfection and artifice. Elegant men, beautiful women, walking in a simulated hurry, travellers without a reason (ours was the only train that day), all to impress us and so that the station doesn't look empty.
We arrived in North Korea.
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A view on the bit surreal but impressive, modern skyline of the quarter in the centre of Pyongyang. The bus in the foreground is an service vehicle for the overhead wires of the trolley bus system in the city.
DPRK, Pyongyang, Oct. 2015
Pyongyang residents enjoy a holiday dance session on a square near the Triumphal Arch in Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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There is only limited access to electricity in Pyongyang. Here you see a picture of the Kim Il-sung Square where the military parades taking place. In the back you see the Grand People's Study House.
The Taedong River in Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, with the Tower of the Juche Idea (1982) in the background.