News: North Korea Celebrates First Beer Festival ever!

brIt-()nstar

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North Korea on Friday launched its first ever beer festival, which is taking place adjacent to an illuminated floating restaurant in the capital city of Pyongyang, state broadcaster Korean Central Television (KCTV) showed.

Served by waitresses in white and blue-colored uniforms, local beer drinkers and foreign tourists toasted with local beer while enjoying munchies such as western bread, nuts, and indigenous chili peppers, video released by KCTV showed.

The evening launch event was kicked up a notch with the addition of musical performances on the riverside and a sampling event where beer lovers judged and guessed the beers they were drinking.

Koryo Tours, which has so far brought 100 tourists to the festival, said the event was proving popular with their customers.

“All have enjoyed it greatly with the highlights being the interaction with a large number of local people who are also enjoying themselves,” said Simon Cockerell, general manager at Koryo Tours. “(It’s) a testament to the universal power of a couple of cold beers on a warm evening to make people get along with each other!”

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.The bright smiles and happy faces of the drinkers, who are mostly North Korean citizens, are in marked contrast to the pressure Pyongyang has faced from the international community this year.

One observer didn’t see a connection in the rationale for hosting the event and the outside geopolitical situation.

“I would simply ascribe this (the festival) to market forces and the desire to expand the brand awareness, plus making profit,” Cockerell said.

https://www.nknews.org/2016/08/pyong...beer-festival/

Come to North Korea!

Tropez

I was there. It was amazing.

mdnazn

highwayuni

Another wonderful creation from Kim Jong Un. What a legend!

brIt-()nstar

Mess at the waitress looking thirsty at that guy though.

RomanNavy

I expect this to taste like piss.

Swine

The guy on the first picture on the left was my tour guide last year! Y'all should visit, it's a really awesome place. You don't actually get checked that much by the way. The only thing they checked when we arrived in Pyongyang was my iPad videos (Applause without sound, the man got very confused

). When you're there your pictures don't get checked, you just don't take photos of military on purpose. When leaving your pictures don't get checked if you leave by plane.

And drinking beer and soju is a lot of fun. Most of it is Chinese beer (Tsingtao), but they have Heineken too.

Schhh

Such a fascinating country.

zz19

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Originally posted by Tropez

I was there. It was amazing.

I'm just curious - do you live in NK currently? Not trying to sound ignorant really - but if you do, how do you get access to this website? I thought websites like this would be blocked in NK for exposing their citizens to Western propaganda. Again i'm not trying to sound ignorant, I just don't know and am curious.

jacklovesyou1

Wonder what it tastes like.

RomanNavy

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Originally posted by Swine

The guy on the first picture on the left was my tour guide last year! Y'all should visit, it's a really awesome place. You don't actually get checked that much by the way. The only thing they checked when we arrived in Pyongyang was my iPad videos (Applause without sound, the man got very confused

). When you're there your pictures don't get checked, you just don't take photos of military on purpose. When leaving your pictures don't get checked if you leave by plane.

And drinking beer and soju is a lot of fun. Most of it is Chinese beer (Tsingtao), but they have Heineken too.

Omg ben je echt geweest?
Ik wil ook maar is echt super duur

heckinglovato

Did people's taxes pay for the beer?

jonasha

Hmm, North Korea doesn't seem that bad, a beer festival makes up for everything else I guess