North Korea's Fake Town in the DMZ

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[@halfasinteresting]

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[@Lewlcat_]

Seems legit

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[@redd9970]

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[@nyaKona]

HMm

[@HTPCYMC]

So the DMZ is Middle Korea?

[@PhilosopherStone]

Middle Korea Best Korea

[@QuarioQuario54321]

Yes

[@unimornnbr1]

Omg, u again. I see u everywhere and youre next to justin y a person i also see every where

[@jmandawgfan2533]

@@unimornnbr1 lol you replied to both of them

[@redd9970]

Yes, yes it is

[@evaristegalois6282]

0:18 DMV: "Scary dangerous place where one can see cold heartless people on the otherside" DMZ: "The area of land separating the Korean peninsula" *_This description of both places is so accurate that it's beyond science_*

[@edwinguan2236]

Evariste Galois hahahaha I was like woah this heartless bastard not all North Koreans are bad. But then when i heard it again 😂😂😂

[@louisswanepoel1614]

Too bad(good) I am not from the US, still got the joke though....was good

[@teelo12000]

Saw that joke coming.

[@doommagic]

@@teelo12000 Me too. Us Americans despise the DMV, so I knew it was going to be a switcheroo joke.

[@grahamlive]

Evariste Galois And yet Patty and Selma are among The Simpsons most likeable characters. ☺️☺️

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Thank you for featuring Best Korea, comrade. That "fake" town is the best town ever

[@kevinnorris6558]

Lose some weight sugar tits and learn how to run a country.

[@actualcommenter5605]

Kevin Norris you so realize you’re talking to a rando

[@dangerjoe8911]

@@actualcommenter5605 Yeah, but you know, he's taking part in the joke, you dumbfuck.

[@Peccath]

He's too fat to perform any kind of running.

[@phantomaviator1318]

Middle Korea Best Korea.

[@thebigsad9463]

Loved the DMV joke

[@Omar-em7rl]

cracked me up too.

[@johncunningham6561]

I eat penis because I think you should change your name. It’s wording can make people seem like they’re being naughty

[@chriskevini]

Your handle is a national treasure

[@Toasty_-jx6zk]

John Cunningham hahahahaha.

[@_Super_Hans_]

bit obvious

[@thebigsad9463]

So north korea's pole is larger than south korea's. *Now I know why there are people escaping to the north*

[@marys.9367]

I eat penis because Name checks out

[@insertobject4002]

@@marys.9367 an odd sentence indeed

[@menachemdavid3535]

Yup there was actually a couple of other large poles built before these two. It was a full on my pole is bigger than your pole competition!

[@paolojavier465]

I like it

[@trashcantacos]

@@marys.9367 I have a long pole ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@ihavetowait90daystochangem67]

Not as fake as the “democratic” part in their name

[@PrograError]

well... they do have elections...

[@JustAnotherNamelessGuy]

@@PrograError only one guy XD

[@ibrahimahmad3917]

Yeah one guy who if u scribble his name out then you'll get killed

[@PrograError]

@@ibrahimahmad3917 elections are elections even if it's a death trap

[@mikeoxsmal8022]

North Korea is more democratic than the us, it has 3 parties in Congress

[@carlosaguilera7355]

North korea-"we have the best military" South korea-"we give food"

[@tylerlackey1175]

Also South Korea: we are afraid of leaving fans on at night

[@tom_something]

1:30 - "...and a full metric ton of artillery vehicles at the South." This is one of those cases where "metric ton" is actually an understatement.

[@CandyHatsuneWolff]

I always thought it was the "metric ass-ton."

[@MM-xm5vx]

I think the airplanes pants would be in the back, since the pants would fold if the plane was landing.

[@oneofmanyparadoxfans5447]

And be torn to shreds by the runway.

[@elismaatta]

But then the stabilisators would be aerodynamicaly blocked.

[@Likeusb1]

@@elismaatta You mean the vertical and horizontal stabiliser?

[@won1853]

FYI Daeseong-dong is also a very interesting place. It's technically South Korean but people there are practically isolated from the rest of South Korea. Only descendants of the original villagers are allowed to live there and even they have to live there at least 8 months a year to retain the status. They're exempt from taxation and military service, but instead everything is controlled by UN forces. They even have a curfew. It's also in the middle of nowhere so there's no fast food, Starbucks, theaters, supermarkets, etc. Most outsiders aren't allowed in, so no delivery either. At least they have the Internet. Otherwise most people would've gone crazy.

[@9nikolai]

BREAKING NEWS All of North Korea's citizens have now gotten internet! "Why?" you may ask. Well, just look at this thrilling interview with Kim Jong-un: "Why did you decide to give internet to your country, sir?" "I don't know, I just watched this video on youtube and did what they told me to do" "And they told you to give access to the internet in North Korea?" "No. But they had to have connection to the internet to use skillshare"

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9nikolai 😂

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[@goodbyesilly]

Breaking news candy hybrid exploded in North Korea so its roblox like

[@grangermontag1824]

Thanks Trump

[@justsomeoneelse5942]

420th like

[@fadibasha6134]

Even as a non American , I enjoyed the roasting of the DMV 😂

[@PhilosopherStone]

Those dislikes are probably female planes who wear skirts, not pants.

[@mikeoxsmal8022]

Explain your statement

[@mikeoxsmal8022]

@I Am Sekou oh I commented it before watching the video

[@mogul1]

All planes are female

[@PhilosopherStone]

@@mogul1 What about planes identifying as Apache helicopters? It's 2019 dude, not cool.

[@NGC1433]

@@mikeoxsmal8022 what is the fucking point of commenting on someones comment on a video you have not watched? What the fuck? You have unlimited free spare lives to fuck around like that?

[@rodhigh7]

I visited the DMZ a number of years ago. The building where the armistice was signed in smack on the border between North and South Korea. If you entered the building on the South Korean side, you could walk the length of the room which would put you in North Korea ! That was country 106 on my travel list ! I have visited most of the countries on my list many times but only visited North Korea that one time.

[@JustinY.]

Reminds me of those ghost/shell cities in China.

[@qnimations]

ue my boi is back at it again

[@unimornnbr1]

Omg, u again. I see u everywhere and youre next to how to clean a computer, a person i also see every where.

[@davidkerrigan4389]

Who are you

[@PinguinodelRio]

The comment ninja returns

[@redd9970]

Ur everywhere I respect you

[@sfctw1]

Can Skillshare teach me how to get my kids back from Karen? Please I CANT BE THE ONLY ONE TRYING

[@wonderofu8073]

FUCK YOU, KAREN!!!

[@masonsilvers6789]

Wut?

[@keco185]

It’s a Karen with a K. You’re never getting them back

[@Anolaana]

She'll not give you your $20 back, you'll only get twenty whacks!

[@konradslush]

@@masonsilvers6789 SHE TOOK THE FUCKING KIDS!!!

[@NewbyTon]

2:59 I think they would wear it the second way because the first one looks weird

[@ernestvagac9388]

Also if they wore them the first way, the pants would be shredded by the runway upon landing

[@princibles]

This sounds like the german ww2 town that avoided destruction by being switzerland

[@aryan-tr8hz]

The what

[@shellshockedgerman3947]

I mean being Switzerland didn't stop the allies from bombing it since they also usr German.

[@gabeevans10]

So wait is Sam secretly a dictator providing us peasants with Skillshare discounts?

[@TheBigRedskull]

How many Toyota Corollas does the DMZ have?

[@Cjnw]

Normie

[@bobsempletank1222]

2

[@Cjnw]

Normie

[@tureytaino2785]

I'm guessing: None.

[@davidconde1521]

DMZ or DPRK?

[@BobMcCoy]

*_Kim Jong-un has joined the chat_*

[@xdolphin7337]

Everyone else has left the chat Kim_Da_God : WTF?

[@kato4792]

*food has left the chat*

[@Danny-hf5mm]

China entered the chat : told ya xD

[@msbhicks8358]

Kim Jong-un: Dude, uncool. Next time you enter Pyongyang, you‘re going to a work camp.

[@juvenalbarrios4250]

The comedic timing on these recently has been spot on.

[@fernandobarajas2908]

I've been to the DMZ and its a pretty intense place.I was there in 2003 for the 50th anniversary.. The fake town flies the worlds largest flag and has painted on windows and a skeleton crew to maintain the place. Its just like a movie set and they blast propaganda for about 20 hours a day. The sign said "Yankee go Home" but I don't know if they are still up.. They also found at least 3 tunnels at the DMV and one they turned in to a ride!

[@dan-bz7dz]

If it's "fake". Then why do the houses look so run down? Ever considered that it's an abandoned village?

[@irenelegovic4819]

*Donald Trump wants to know your location*

[@bogboy90210]

Trump wants to know the location of all the burgers

[@andrewsitu5107]

@@bogboy90210 is "burgers" a codeword for missiles?

[@bogboy90210]

Andrew Situ only if missiles is code for Russian pee-pee.

[@nettowaku1252]

Can Skillshare teach me how to build fake towns?

[@firepower7017]

Rimuru Tempest Just get a whole bunch of cardboard and workers, they must be capably strong.

[@NeighborSenpai]

It's easier to build real towns

[@ntech9355]

Also use D A S H L A N E for security

[@farmarco99]

Blue Apron will supply the town with food

[@Versuffe]

You will need nord VPN so armies wont come to ur house

[@_JayRamsey_]

2:50 Dude...I replayed that so many times trying to understand it. You clever bastard.

[@quinn5109]

I was telling my cousin about this, and he'd actually been to the touristy part of the DMZ and he showed me a pic he'd taken of the massive flag, and he said he thought it was a real town

[@andymacgowan1560]

0:17 your jokes were funny for once I love you guys! Lmao Keep up the great work!

[@Likeusb1]

Your jokes are never funny.

[@castsmith6783]

4:24 so the people can get an education and overthrow the dictator?

[@jasonf7072]

Castsmith they're taught North Korean education :) Which is whatever Kim Jong says goes and that he's basically god

[@theheartland1861]

The smart ones either escape or try to escape. The rest are brainwashed zombies

[@konradslush]

Finally a video about this! I've been waiting for this.

[@potasium_]

Greatest birthday present ever, an HAI video! Love ya' Sam!

[@dkoda840]

Ok that DMV-DMZ joke was perfect 😂 great video as always tho.

[@Spanish_Patriot]

I observed this town with a telescope in the DMZ. I saw no activity at all, as if no one lived there. Still, it seemed to be well-maintained.

[@dannick100]

Loved the transition to skillshare on this one. top notch

[@definitelyderek5815]

These guys are great at linking the story to the product. Props, you need money to make these high quality vids and you do it well

[@rfldss89]

Imagining living on the only planet known to carry any form of life amongst billions of members of the same form of life as you, in a universe with billions of other ostensibly empty planets, and your only job is to go around a fake settlement seemingly in the middle of nowhere flipping switches to turn lights on and off randomly. And if you don't do it, some other bloke, who's more powerful than you for some reason, will tell some other guy with a gun to put an end to your misery and go imprison your family for 3 generations. While at the same time people who happened to be lucky to be born on the other side of the same planet are whizzing by at tens of time the speed of sound hundreds of miles above your head like it's their 9 to 5 (which, unbelievably, it is).

[@Hibasi]

I was on the DMZ tour (South Korea Side) last year and the tour guide told me, that there is a town in the DMZ on the North Korean side called Kaesong, which was built to show the South Koreans, how "well" they're living. This town can be only visited by their residents as an north korean, since the DMZ is not allowed to enter for any Koreans at all.

[@dan-bz7dz]

So it must be true

[@louisswanepoel1614]

That transfer to the sponsor was really specific.

[@thebrickbot7106]

Loved the dmz bit in the interview

[@laurenconrad1799]

“Stalin got all Staliny.” Haha. I love it!

[@grandpasoviet5117]

“One is a scary area where you can see cold heartless people on the other side” “While the other separates Korea” Oh shit 😂😂

[@anand34s]

Love the channel!!

[@EebstertheGreat]

2:49 "This makes about as much sense as the for the fact it was to be for that would can." Well put.

[@finneusredacted5689]

North Korea has towns?

[@QuarioQuario54321]

Yes

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

@I Am Sekou Found the North Korean plant.

[@konradslush]

Well... town.

[@Likeusb1]

@I Am Sekou Found the non-jokegetter

[@Giblet12]

I Am Sekou ifunny moment

[@snowy4162]

Fun drinking game: Take a shot every time a video on HAI is sponsered by Skillshare

[@oumardiop1]

2:43 that enhance made it go forward like 20 years

[@JeffDvrx]

This channel is pure gold

[@phantomaviator1318]

1:48 When your crazy cousins come other with Auntie Bernice but you've failed to realize you're the crazy one.

[@PaulEIvory]

Have you got any views from North Korea?

[@hanj31]

I love the analogy at the beginning.

[@someenchilada]

Hey man you are becoming funnier with every video uploaded. Also, I have add so I need to rewind and catch up on whatever I missed since realising you’re funny and deciding to leave this comment.

[@i_deeyad7249]

0:16 lmao I stared dying 😂

[@YuhoKeebs]

The DMV description is more accurate than when you google what a DMV is.

[@DimitriGaldava-yi1rz]

This is gooood. Made my day. DMV vs DMZ

[@jaigagandeep.s5100]

Loved the joke about comparison of DMV really didn't expect it 😂

[@amonrei]

Yeah i've been there last September. Interesting that one of the questions asked by the US Military guide was "Do any of you feel like defecting to the North today?" Bizarre. Also, Daesong-dong was featured in a Korean variety show "2 Days 1 Night" last year. Another interesting fact, South Koreans can't just go to the DMZ like international tourists can. Korean-American can though.

[@thenotflatearth2714]

Can Skillshare teach me how to rise up to power and enslave millions?

[@les8947]

i love going on google maps and seeing how little areas there are where we can drop down and see as if we were there compared to south korea

[@catalinbotezan8009]

like what you did there in the beginning of the video describing the DMV! :)

[@lohiboi6331]

Kim jong un: gets skillshare for all of north korea to learn how to invadenthe south

[@underscoredfrisk]

3:12 look at that dude on the left with headphones... They look awfully photoshopped

[@daftdoggo7662]

I fucking love this channel, and I also love the humor

[@calebmorin4852]

I Love Your Sense Of Humour!

[@MultiSciGeek]

Your borders are too t h i c c Make them thin and crispy so we can actually see the map below

[@ariadhikarayendra5111]

Is it just me or Half as Interesting's videos are more interesting than Wendover's

[@dolecrash5802]

I am pretty sure that most Half As Interesting videos are based on Wikipedia: Unusual Articles TWL. Remember that?

[@FadedXenox]

Is it just me or is HAI the same person as Wendover

[@99Kuromaru]

@@blaziken1564 that's the joke...

[@ohioguy1946]

Love how you threw an airplane reference in there 😂

[@coyoteartist]

Imjin River: the thing we sit on the other side except for that time we needed to trim a tree Imjin Road (actually Parkway): the thing I use to get to Target on old Fort Ord, former home of the 7th Infantry Division after their 25 years of staring across the DMZ, probably wishing they were at the DMV just for a change.

[@Colteor7761]

Best Koreas Real town in the middle of rightful Korean land. There fixed the title

[@spunchbop47428]

If Kim jong un hacked this channel lol

[@CalvinLimuel]

2:01 I almost choked when you pronounced daedong-dong and jidong-dong you managed to then pronounce daeseong dong but you still couldn't get kijeong-dong hahaha

[@jankovelimirovic4844]

“Beetween a zillion to a bajillion soldiers” i love it.

[@accountuser8663]

omg the beginning joke is amazing!

[@arvindjijiantony4882]

On a serious note, if an airplane actually wore pants, it's landing gear should get covered.

[@Jesse__H]

2:49 I'm sorry wth is he saying, there?

[@ishouldhavetried]

Why can't you see anything inside?

[@Likeusb1]

@@ishouldhavetried Why can't you see anything inside? Because it has no windows Jk

[@1dlively]

Funny fact, all the lights came on at the same time and went off at the same time. I was stationed inside the DMZ for many moons and saw some really strange things.

[@Mr._Lechkar]

4:21 So Sam is a maniacal dictator, isn't he?!

[@dkaloger5720]

Wow I did not thing a fat man could do this much damage

[@tdlf156]

The plane fetish managed to get in to this video

[@cellocoversimprov5660]

That DMV/DMZ joke really got me

[@UserOfTheName]

the windows are blacked out for optimization reasons if you get close you can see inside

[@GustafMedF]

Why did you put gullible in the bottom of the description?

[@art1637]

Gustaf Lindewald fell for it like an idiot now i want to die

[@TheBigRedskull]

I actually fell for it. Shoot me now

[@GustafMedF]

@@TheBigRedskull it's fine. I fell for it once too you know.

[@TheBigRedskull]

Gustaf Lindewald 😍

[@Yotanido]

But is it gullible to check whether there is actually something there or is it gullible to just assume it is untrue?

[@JuniorfanTheEnlightment]

"In North Korea, Pyongyang is waiting for you!" - Kids Learning Tube

[@davidricardomurillocardozo2938]

I loved the "Whenever, Wherever" reference xd

[@Tom-eq7eh]

Lil Boi and Phat Man dropped some fire

[@Luka-uz8qe]

I was watching Wendover Productions when this came out xD (I know nobody cares)

[@NeighborSenpai]

I do

[@TheSixStringGuy]

Imagine if it looks fake because they have tunnels under all the buildings so they commute that way, making there towns look dead... Food for thought

[@clu52]

I just realized that this channel is called half as interesting because his videos are half the length

[@ExplosiveKaboom]

The DMV and DMZ are totally different things. One is a scary, dangerous place where others on the other side want you dead, and the other is a spot for crossing into another country

[@vladimirlenin4080]

I usually have an idea of what to comment but i don't have any idea

[@NeighborSenpai]

Look what you did Lenin? You made an entire Soviet entity and now what's left is fake towns? Is this why you killed the Tzar? Seriously that was a waste of time

[@exudeku]

*Illusion 100*

[@cspaliwal_]

Ok, if I became a maniacal dictator I will get my citizens a skillshare account

[@alexk8599]

A full metric ton of artillery guns? Man, that's like one whole gun.

[@owenhacker5745]

*trump has left the chat*

[@austindurley2482]

owen hacker BROTHER!!

[@PlatinumSkirmish]

Notification squad where ya at

[@icecreamlover7072]

That airplane joke killed me!

[@spiderpanch]

The question about plane pants got me all messed up

[@NewbyTon]

Deception at it's finest

[@BradleyG01]

The beginning made me laugh so hard. Wendover: One is a scary, dangerous place where one can see cold, heartless people on the other side Me: I know north korea is awful, but this seems a bit brutal Wendover: And the other is the area of land separating the Korean Peninsula Me: Oh wow, he was talking about the dmv...

[@Vollification]

1:39 Our super-pose will keep the tanks out!

[@adamdickinson2894]

I love the animator. What a guy