I ask the question in the video, if you don't mind sharing your thoughts, how does it feel as a Korean to come to the DMZ and look into North Korea? As always, thanks for watching! If you want to support the channel, please LIKE and leave your thoughts in the comment section. Also, if you haven't subscribed, I hope you consider doing so! More to come from the Bike Touring South Korea series. ์์์์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ํ๋ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์๊ฐ์ ๊ณต์ ํด๋ ๊ด์ฐฎ๋ค๋ฉด, ํ๊ตญ์ธ์ผ๋ก์ DMZ์ ์์ ๋ถํ์ ์ดํด๋ณด๋ ๊ฒ ์ด๋ค ๊ธฐ๋ถ์ธ๊ฐ์? ์ธ์ ๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฏ์ด ์์ฒญํด ์ฃผ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค! ์ฑ๋์ ์ง์ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ผ์๋ค๋ฉด ์ข์์๋ฅผ ๋๋ฌ์ฃผ์๊ณ ๋๊ธ ์น์ ์ ์๊ฐ์ ๋จ๊ฒจ์ฃผ์ธ์. ๋ํ ๊ตฌ๋ ํ์ง ์์ผ์ จ๋ค๋ฉด ๊ตฌ๋ ์ ๊ณ ๋ คํด ์ฃผ์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค! Bike Touring South Korea ์๋ฆฌ์ฆ์์ ๋ ๋ง์ ๋ด์ฉ์ด ๋์ฌ ์์ ์ ๋๋ค. ๐๐๐subscribe: kzbin.info... ๐ง๐ง๐งBuy Me A Coffee or Bingsu!: buymeacoffee.com/nick_k ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฐwww.paypal.com/paypalme/NickK... โโโBecome a member: / @nickktravel ๐ถ๐ถ๐ถMusic by Manny Marx: mmxsounds.bandcamp.com
When I go there, I think, "It's fortunate that I was born in Korea by a few meters." I feel compassion for North Koreans, but North Korean soldiers are our main enemy
I love that while talking about topics that can be sensitive, you are so respectful of the native culture. I believe that's the reason all the Koreans you run into in your videos are so kind and helpful. Really enjoying the videos ๐ค
@NickKTravel2 ะฐะน ะฑาฑััะฝ
thanks for the kind message! yes I like learning about these things and talking about them, which can be difficult sometimes! thanks for your support!
I love that you're trying to speak Korean now. Watching your videos also gives me different places that I would also like to check out when I go back to Korea. Stay cool, enjoy a Bingsu!
@NickKTravel2 ะฐะน ะฑาฑััะฝ
Thanks so much! Learning little by little! thanks for your support!
@TV-oc6dh2 ะฐะน ะฑาฑััะฝ
Thank you for visiting Korea. I will cheer for you to meet more kind Korean people and hope you get a better impression of Korea while traveling to Korea. Get some more Bingsoo =)
@NickKTravel2 ะฐะน ะฑาฑััะฝ
Thank you! Yeah Iโm sure Iโll continue to meet wonderful people! Thanks for your support!
@TV-oc6dh2 ะฐะน ะฑาฑััะฝ
@NickKTravel Also really appreciate that you respect Korean people and culture as well. I'm looking forward to meeting you someday and have some cold beer or Bingsoo together!!
I live in New Jersey and go back home in Seoul to see my family every couple of years. I never visit in July or August, though, because I canโt stand the weather. Youโll see different Korea if you visit in Oct or Nov. ๐
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@NickKTravel2 ะฐะน ะฑาฑััะฝ
wow, thanks for the very generous super thanks! yeah it's pretty hot now lol. But I'm taking it easy and not pushing myself too hard. It's part of the challenge :) Thanks for your support!
wow, thanks for the generous super thanks! I appreciate your support! lets gooooo
@XP_02042 ะฐะน ะฑาฑััะฝ
long time ago, i served in the military in DMZ. as a Korean, i can't express DMZ in a word. sometimes it comes across as a lot of emotions. with compassion, hatred, tragedy, resentment.
๋ ์์์์๋ ํญ์ ๋ฐฐ์ธ์ ์ด ์์ด์. ํ๊ตญ์ฌ๋์ผ๋ก์ ๋ถํ๊ณผ ๊ด๋ จ๋ ์ด๋ฐ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ์ข์ ๋๋ต์ ์๊ฐํด๋ณด์ง ์์ ์ ์์ ์ ๋ฐ์ฑํ๊ฒ ๋๋ค์. There is always something I can learn from your videos. As a Korean, I should reflect on myself because Iโve never thought about the answer to this question related to North Korea.
Good morning, Nick. Welcome back to Korea again. I am an old Korean (72 years old). I used to live in Houston, Texas for 7 years (1984 - 1991). Gimpo and Ganghwa Island, which you visited, are close to the border with North Korea, so there could be conflicts over security issues. That's why there are many check points in those areas. The separation of South and North Korea is a tragedy, and we are trying to overcome it, but it is not easy. Older people like me want unification a lot, but young people seem to be gradually losing interest in unification, in my opinion. Iโve found a related survey report regarding unification of South and North Koreas. The results of that survey conducted in 2023 were released which shows that less than half (49.8%) of elementary, middle, and high school students of South Korea nationwide think unification is necessary. According to the results of the '2023 School Unification Education Survey' released by the Ministry of Unification on March 16, 2024, only 49.8% of elementary, middle, and high school students nationwide think unification is necessary, while 11.3% responded that it is not necessary (38.9%) or that they 'don't know/are not interested.' This is the result of a survey conducted by the Ministry of Unification and the Ministry of Education from October 20 to November 20 of last year with the cooperation of provincial and municipal offices of education across the country, targeting a total of 84,600 students from 756 elementary, middle, and high schools across the country. On the 16th March, 2024, the Ministry of Unification announced in a press release that the perception that 'unification is not necessary' was the highest since it was implemented in 2014 based on Article 8, Paragraph 4 of the Unification Education Support Act, which allows for an annual survey on unification education in elementary and secondary schools. According to the survey results, the number of students who think that 'unification is necessary' has continuously decreased from 62.4% (2020) โ 61.2% (2021) โ 57.6% (2022) โ 49.8% (2023), and in proportion, the perception that 'unification is unnecessary' has significantly increased from 24.2% (2020) โ 25.0% (2021) โ 31.7% (2022) โ 38.9% (2023). Even including the 11.3% who responded that they 'don't know/are not interested', the positive perception that 'unification is necessary' has fallen by less than half. In particular, the number of respondents who responded that they are 'interested in unification' has also continuously decreased from 50.9% (2021) โ 47.4% (2022) โ 43.7% (2023), which is raising concerns. In the case of teachers, the perception that 'unification is necessary' was 82.5%, far exceeding the perception that it is unnecessary (14.6%), but the response that 'unification is necessary' was confirmed to be gradually decreasing from 87.9% (2020) โ 85.6% (2021) โ 86.7% (2022) โ 82.5% (2023). The response that 'I am interested in unification' remained at a relatively high level from 77.9% (2021) โ 77.7% (2022) โ 70.8% (2023). It seems that the inter-Korean relationship, which is heading towards confrontation, has led to a crisis of war, resulting in skepticism about interest in unification, its feasibility, and the benefits of unification. Hope the above will be of some help to you. ํต์ผ๋ถ๋ 2023๋ 10์ 20์ผ๋ถํฐ 11์ 20์ผ๊น์ง ๊ต์ก๋ถ์ ํจ๊ป ์ ๊ตญ ์ดยท์คยท๊ณ 756๊ฐ๊ต ํ์ 7๋ง3์ฒ991๋ช ๊ณผ ๊ต์ฌยท๊ด๋ฆฌ์ 6์ฒ469๋ช ์ ๋์์ผ๋ก '2023๋ ๋ ํ๊ต ํต์ผ๊ต์ก ์คํ์กฐ์ฌ'๋ฅผ ์ํํ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ 2024๋ 3์16์ผ ๋ฐํํ๋ค. ์กฐ์ฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ 'ํต์ผ์ด ํ์ํ๋ค'๋ ํ์์ ๋น์จ์ 2014๋ ์กฐ์ฌ๊ฐ ์์๋ ์ด๋ ์ฒ์์ผ๋ก 50% ์๋์ธ 49.8%๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ฉด, 'ํต์ผ์ด ๋ถํ์ํ๋ค'๋ ํ์๋ค์ 2020๋ 24.2%, 2021๋ 25%, 2022๋ 31.7%์ ์ด์ด 2023๋ 38.9%๋ก ๊ฐํ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์ฌ๋ผ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋์ ์์ค์ ๊ธฐ๋กํ๋ค. ํ์๋ค์ ํต์ผ์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ฌ๋๋ ํด๋ง๋ค ๊ฐ์ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ํ๋ฌ๋ค. '(ํต์ผ์) ๊ด์ฌ์๋ค'๋ ์๋ต์์ ๋น์จ์ 2020๋ 20.2%์์ 2021๋ 22.4%, 2022๋ 27%, 2023๋ ์ 28.3%๋ก ๋งค๋ ๋์์ก๋ค. ๋ถํ ์์ฒด์ ๋ํ ๋ถ์ ์ ์ธ์๋ ๊ฐํ๋๋ค. '๋ถํ์ผ๋ก ์ธํ ํ๋ฐ๋ ๊ตฐ์ฌ์ ์ถฉ๋ยท๋ถ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ'์ ๋ํด '์ฝ๊ฐ ์๋ค'๊ณ ์๋ตํ ํ์๊ณผ ๊ต์ฌ๊ฐ ๊ฐ๊ฐ 56.5%, 50.6%, '๋ง์ด ์๋ค'๋ ๊ฐ๊ฐ 24.1%, 15%๋ก ํ์๊ณผ ๊ต์ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ก ํ๊ณ ๋ค์ ์๋ต์๊ฐ ์ถฉ๋ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ ์ฐ๋ คํ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ํ๋ฌ๋ค. ๊ฐ์ ๋งฅ๋ฝ์์ ๋ถํ์ 'ํ๋ ฅ ๋์'์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๋ ์๋ต์๋ ๊ฐ์ํ ๋ฐ๋ฉด, ๋ถํ์ '๊ฒฝ๊ณยท์ ๋ ๋์'์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๊ฑฐ๋ ๋จ๋ถ๊ด๊ณ๊ฐ 'ํํ๋กญ์ง ์๋ค'๊ณ ์ฌ๊ธฐ๋ ํ์ยท๊ต์ฌ๋ค์ ๋์๋ค.
Nick your adventures are getting more and more interesting!! Thanks for the video! I also would like to add that as a Korean I feel sadness but at the same time a sense of shame, that our people had to be divided in this way. Hopefully we will unite some day in the future.
Really love your style of videos. We are going to S Korea in April and your commentaries are very insightful, refreshing and educational. Thanks so much!
@jeongahpark89022 ะฐะน ะฑาฑััะฝ
You know what? A friend of my son(21years old) who is a Navy Soldier around the Ganghwado found the defector from North Korea recent for the first time. So he got 1 month reward vacation as a prize. What a wonderful world!
@NickKTravel2 ะฐะน ะฑาฑััะฝ
Wow, what a story!
@jeongahpark89022 ะฐะน ะฑาฑััะฝ
@NickKTravel Yesterday, August 20th, one more a defector(soldier of North Korea) came to South Korea by walk in Gosung, Gangwondo. Gosung DMZ is worth to visit. I think you are a fairy of defector.
My grandparents escaped the war from the North and settled into the South. Because of this my family's attitude towards the North has been colored with hope and the desire for unification. My grandparents have since passed, but they prayed for the two to unite. With the current political atmosphere, it's looking less and less likely every day, but stranger things have happened. I know a lot of people see NK as a separate country from us now, but in my eyes we still share culture and blood. I'm hoping we can unify and become a stronger, whole country in the near future.
Can't wait! I love your channel's unique perspective about the beautiful views of South Korea's little towns and how people are living there. They are even new to many Korean audiences.
Too short! Too short! The video is too short! ^^ can't wait for the next one! โค
@์ฑ๋ฏผ๊ฒฝ-v8l2 ะฐะน ะฑาฑััะฝ
Hi, Nick! Thank you for traveling my home country and sharing all the nice sceneries. I grew up in Daejeon, and my neighborhood was surrounded by all the tall apartment buildings, so it gave me healing to see the beautiful nature: houses, fields, mountains, rivers, etc. Now I live in St. Louis, MO. My American husband and I used to ride bikes a lot in Korea because the bike trails over there is very nice, but here in America, it's not easy, so our bikes are just sitting in our backyard๐ It is very interesting to see a foreigner crossing my country from Busan to Seoul and that he is also interested in Korean history and war and North Korea. I've never been to DMZ, but if I visit there, I would cry. I'm very interested in North Korea as a Christian. It is very heartbreaking to see how they live as slaves of one person, Kim Jeong Eun. They live in a prison. The whole country is prison itself. There's no human right. I have heard testimonies frim so many North Korean escapers. They were brainwashed by all the lies and when they come to South they get shocked. They take their lives to come to South Korea or to other countries, and if they get caught, they are sent back to North Korea and put into jail. Freedom is truly not free, and I appreciate my ancestors who fought for freedom, especially our first president, Lee Seungman. Unfortunately, many South Korean media and education give biased views by left wings. So they distorted Lee Seungman's great work to save South as a freedom country. Without him, we would have already become a communist country devoured by Soviet Union and Kim IL Sung. I'm praying for North Koreans to be free soon and hear the gospel. They are killed if theybare found that they keep the Bible or watch South Korean dramas or listen to Korean music. Nowadays, young South Korean generations don't want unification because it will burden South. But we are originally one country, and they are catured by the evil dictator and suffering. If we are unified, we will be stronger after a while when natural resources in the North and technology in the South combine.
@joe714552 ะฐะน ะฑาฑััะฝ
My mother was born in the just north of border in 1934 and then came to the south for her marriage. She hopes to visit her hometown. We feel very sad always about those people left in the north. Hope to be unified very soon. Nik, Thanks very much. Be safe and enjoy your tour!!!๐๐โค
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Step by step. 208k !! ์ค๋์ 210k ๊ฐ์๋ค!!
@TheSuzypark2 ะฐะน ะฑาฑััะฝ
Hello Nick. Thanks for posting a video and I really enjoyed it. Please take it easy because we would like to see you for long time here. Glad you got to meet theses nice people on the road and hope it will continue. Thanks again.
As a korean, i should visit there one day too haha. The fact that north and south has separated and how we live, i must appreciate what i have in south and also feeling so sorry when hear their stories. As you said in the video, like it's quite tragedy.
I knowโฆmy mother was born in what became North Korea. At the time of her youth, her part of Korea in the late 30s and 40s had hydro electric dams, railways (built with Japanese investment) while the south was still mostly poor and rural. She never talked much of the hardships endured during WW2 or The Korean War during which time she and her family fled south, but I know it broke her heart many times over thinking about the place she was born becoming so backward and poor under the dictatorship that took over. How do you cut up a country like that? Only madmen in power who just didnโt give a damn about the people in it.
Your vids are so soothing that they heal my soul literally keep it up!!
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Nick, the water between Ganghwa island and North Korea is not river but sea. Ganghwa island is surrounded with sea. Enjoy biking and meeting up with nice Korean people. I love your video.
Thinking about North Korea is scary and sad. I hope that one day, unification will occur and Korea will become richer, stronger, and more peaceful. North Korea and South Korea, who speak the same language, are of the same race and blood.๋ถํ ์๊ฐํ๋ฉด ๋ฌด์ญ๊ณ ์ํ๊น์ต๋๋ค. ์ธ์ ๊ฐ๋ ๊ผญ ํต์ผ์ด ๋์ด์ ํ๊ตญ์ด ๋ ๋ถ๊ฐํด์ง๊ณ ํํ๋ก์์ง๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ผ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ฐ์ ์ธ์ด๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ฉํ๋ ๋ถํ๊ณผ ๋จํ์ ํ๋ฏผ์กฑ, ํ ํ์ค์ ๋๋ค.