Catching the North Korean spy you're
getting the prize from the government
and it's actually benefiting country and
also benefit me
It's day two
We're going to a museum.
I'm grumpy.
Get your sausage.
Let's go get some culture.
We had like a delicious five course Korean traditional
meal in this beautiful place, check the... look at the roof!
So I'm really excited to see this palace
because like
it's a palace
You look beautiful Matthew.
Thank-you Marc.
We're going to...
Gyeongbokgung
OK, Jin's giving us
'cause we're being well-behaved
how you supposed to bite this thing?
So you want to wear that?
Mmhmm.
All right...
Everyone can't be king so
one of you can be slave
we're doing this and also we don't walk
like as a king you have to put your
hands behind you and walk
Why you look so serious?
'Cause I'm a king.
We're hiking up to Seoul Tower, 1.2km
very intense hike.
and there's this very convenient gym here and there's
never a bad time to go to the gym we're
gonna do some exercise right now.
This is practice when you're gonna milk a
cow we have some classics here
Little bit of a push up thingy.
Why you recording that way?
I dunno?
This is for practice when you wanna drive the ship.
What doesn't kill you make you stronger bro.
Nice and deep bru.
Ja!
And that's a tour of the Seoul Tower gym.
Love
We made it to the top of Seoul Tower.
I’m gonna interject if I may.
The day we went to the North Korean border, or “Demilitarized Zone,” may not look
like much but this is a big deal because South Korea is technically still at war.
The DMZ is a strip of land between North and South Korea that is considered ‘no man’s
land.
It was created as part of the Korean Armistice Agreement, which ended full fledged warfare
in 1953 but no peace treaty was ever signed.
Because the countries are still at war, the demilitarized zone is actually the most heavily
militarized border in the world.
We hopped on a tour bus and headed to Imjingak Resort, a place built to symbolise the hope
of someday unifying North and South Korea.
We had a very limited amount of time to see some of the monuments reflecting the separation
of families here before we were sped into the DMZ.
We were taken to one of the tunnels the North Koreans built after the peace treaty was signed.
It’s believed that North Korea intended to sneak thousands of men through these tunnels
and stage a massive attack on South Korea, but North Korea denies this.
The first tunnel was discovered in November 1974 - when a South Korean army patrol spotted
steam coming out of the ground and decided to investigate.
So you grab a hard hat and walk for what feels like forever deep into the earth with hundreds
of other tourists as you squeeze into single file and duck as the tunnel gets smaller.
At the end of the tunnel you can peek through a little window to “see the North Korean
side” of the tunnel.
You can’t see anything but the idea of being right at the border and seeing the results
of this crazy failed plan in person is pretty cool.
Our next stop was the Dora Observatory where you can peek across the DMZ into North Korea.
The North Koreans have built what they call Peace Village right on the border to show
off a modern prospering town.
Today’s telescopic lenses however have shown that these buildings are mostly empty and
simply a smart attempt at propaganda.
Many South Koreans now refer to it as 'Propaganda Village.'
Our final stop was a very quiet Dorasan Rail Station, a station that once had a railway
line connecting North and South Korea.
It’s actually been refurbished and looks beautiful and modern.
It currently stands as a symbol of hope for a unified Korea.
I knew very little about Korean history before going to South Korea, so this trip was very
eye opening.
Korea seems to have been caught in the middle of this battle between communism and capitalism
and many of its citizens would really rather have one united country.
This all started when Japan decided to occupy Korea in the late eighteen hundreds.
When the Japanese lost world war two, the Russian’s and the Americans agreed, without
consulting the Koreans, to divide the country in two.
The South would be occupied by the Americans and the North by the Russians until the country
could become independent again.
But the Cold War interfered with these plans and the two very different ideological views
of their new occupiers created a growing divide amongst the Koreans themselves.
Over and over again one side has tried to occupy the other to create one Korea but interference
from the world's big powers kept establishing that middle border.
It’s a fascinating story and one which is still being told today.
Can North and South Korea peacefully put their now very different belief systems aside and
become one or will we just have a final peaceful establishment of two separate countries?
Only time will tell, but one things for sure, this war can’t carry on forever, can it?
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