DPRK City Planning EXPLAINED | City Planning & Design in North Korea

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Cities in the DPRK are often planned around a few core tenets of socialist-oriented design. Whether that be wide tree-lined boulevards, micro-districts, or the prevalence of public parks, the landscape and history of a city often presents unique design challenges to those designing the country's city layouts.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:14 City Planning Theory
04:56 National Administrative Divisions
08:51 Kaesong
11:20 Chongjin
14:03 Sinuiju
15:39 Kanggye
17:30 Children's Traffic Parks
18:06 Modern Pyongyang
19:52 Outro
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@davidhalasz1974 3 ай бұрын

cities skylines players: write that down!!

@itacom2199 3 ай бұрын

It really do be like that 😅😅😅

@JW-bx8ss 2 ай бұрын

More like workers and resources: soviet republic players

@itacom2199 2 ай бұрын

@@JW-bx8ss what?

@JW-bx8ss 2 ай бұрын

@itacom2199 it's another game for city planning but it's more realistic and had a stronger resource management element, plus a socialist style

@itacom2199 2 ай бұрын

@@JW-bx8ss Is it on steam?

@Brick-Life 3 ай бұрын

This is great to learn the DPRK style of city planning

@artnfrodo7260 3 ай бұрын

As an urban planning student I really like small little insights in other countries practices ^^

@ayuh8911 Ай бұрын

$5 the US makes no sense. I bet when you look at industry it's nonsensical. Shorts and shirts factories next to car manufacturers. I bet you can see we do not work we mostly sell.

@emptywaterbottle6973 3 ай бұрын

I love the traffic parks, what a wonderful idea if you think about it.

@lyri-kyunero 3 ай бұрын

The second phase of Hwasong District construction is going to be completed very soon.

@kennyleung2001 2 ай бұрын

Urbanist heaven, most individual do not own cars, relies on public transit, mid or low-raise and mixed used building.

@OfficialUSKRprogram 2 ай бұрын

YES! Detailed communist city planning explanations are so hard to find!

@thatponybro6940 2 ай бұрын

i unironically would love to visit the DPRK one day, i love me a good walkable city

@LiterarischeAktion 2 ай бұрын

Do it

@ayuh8911 Ай бұрын

It's hard to visit. Id like to as well

@avus-kw2f213 3 ай бұрын

Can’t wait to see how great cities are made

@sarahrean7174 3 ай бұрын

On jaka Parker channel real life in North korea everyday

@user-cd4bx6uq1y 2 ай бұрын

I was literally outisde 10 minutes ago and thinking how great it is that in my eastern European country Soviet planning allows quiet spaces just 100 meters away from major crossroads and whatnot

@yourfriend8052 2 ай бұрын

Microdistricting

@thatvietguyonline Ай бұрын

Say more

@crystaluwu1012 3 ай бұрын

Its really a shame that despite being Korea's oldest and longest surviving city, Pyongyang has lost majority of its ancient buildings to bombing,imagine all the Goguryeo and Gojoseon ancient houses, walls and pavillions being sorounded by a sprawling city like how Kaesong is, the USA and South Korea didn't even hold back on bombing the first and only surviving city which gave birth to the Korean civilization and heralded the first centralized authority in the Peninsula, but war is war so we can't do anyrhing about that.

@stanleybell3857 2 ай бұрын

It is a shame. However, it did let people rebuild the city into what it is today, allowing for transport to be efficient, etc.

@prodbyNOVAER 2 ай бұрын

@@stanleybell3857 "efficient" transport. Huge empty highways cutting up different districts. No walkability whatsoever. Doesn't seem that efficient to me.

@stanleybell3857 2 ай бұрын

@prodbyNOVAER pyongyang seems walkable from what I have seen, lots of footpaths in the photo i have seen. I'm no expert, but just comparing it to a large amount of my country things look to be better in some respects.

@BrakeCoach 2 ай бұрын

Nah, Gojoseon and Goguryeo era houses would have been wiped out before the Korean War, except for a few notable structures. First of all, unlike other ancient cities such as Rome or Athens, most structures were wooden, and not a lot of buildings from either era would be left intact for 3000 years. Secondly, when Goguryeo fell, Pyeongyang and its Taedong River remained a buffer zone between Silla and Balhae. Its even recorded that the first king of Goryeo lamented the poor state of the old Goguryeo castles, which have been abandoned in ruin for at least 2 centuries. It would be cool if they restored old palaces and towns, and I think it is a good thing that some Goguryeo-era structures are still standing today, such as gates like the Taedong Gate, and the Ulmil Pavilion. These are probably rebuilt over those long periods of time though. Korea had many periods of war, after all. Think of it as the Ship of Theseus. This is the case for many cities, including Kaeseong and South Korean ones, where you see Joseon era style architecture in places that are established in ancient periods.

@bellatordei3440 2 ай бұрын

😔

@ryandepp7640 2 ай бұрын

Would be great if you could make a video on the DPRK’s national park system and the country’s environmental bureaus

@yourfriend8052 2 ай бұрын

Are those even a thing?

@Digo-eu 19 күн бұрын

@@yourfriend8052 it’s a country and it has parks. Why is it unreasonable that it has some form of park administration?

@EulaliaDaisy 10 күн бұрын

@@yourfriend8052 what do you mean? The DPRK has been a state for decades, and was the more developed Korea for a very long time (until the 90s), ofc those are gonna be things.

@bryanc8861 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for covering interesting and more niche topics! Been a viewer since the railroad video, glad to see you're still making new ones

@SaxophoneChihuahua 3 ай бұрын

you can never tell if a video of north korea was taken in 1988, 2002, or 2024

@GordonFreemayne Ай бұрын

Skill issues

@noname18305 29 күн бұрын

It's almost like they've been under severe sanctions for decades

@pauljohnson7770 20 күн бұрын

Or 1960

@mrdabss 19 күн бұрын

Untrue

@SlapStyleAnims 3 ай бұрын

We need some children’s traffic parks here in the US! Our drivers are terrible!

@Ggdivhjkjl 2 ай бұрын

Alabama has great drivers.

@hexapodc.1973 2 ай бұрын

maybe dont name them childrens traffic parks though, like litterally anything else lmao

@abdullahtshabal9522 3 ай бұрын

I love the look of the Songhwa Street Main Tower, it's like straight out of Halo

@christopherkelly577 3 ай бұрын

This is outstandingly informative 👏 🇰🇵⭐️

@vladilenkalatschev4915 2 ай бұрын

Puongyang is absolutely beautiful city

@Welgeldiguniekalias 3 ай бұрын

Looking at the footage, the main design principle appears to be that nobody owns a car. If this was America or Russia, those wide boulevards would be chock-a-block and all the wide open public spaces would be turned into parking lots.

@RedBird7 3 ай бұрын

Yah because of sanction and a small population that is similer to Finland population

@fabio4465 3 ай бұрын

Well, maybe they realised public transport works and grew up to stop playng with big boys toys, they leave that to the kids. They do have cars by the way, why would you think is the purpose of having childrens traffic parks?

@crystaluwu1012 3 ай бұрын

@@RedBird7aside from that i think North Korea did it in purpose, cars produce pollution, and in a book written by KIS as far as i can remember he clearly states that they wanted Pyongyang to look green and like a huge par when they were rebuilding the city after the war, cars obviously go counterintuitive to that, but i suppose a little of them won't be bad, since DPRK still needs to fullfill transportation needs especially on areas where public transport is not readily available. They limit cars as much as possible their.

@RT-qd8yl 3 ай бұрын

@@fabio4465 Public transport only works in cities and for certain things. How am I going to use a city bus to go pick up a refrigeration compressor at 4 in the morning?

@Wockes 3 ай бұрын

@@RT-qd8yl As someone from Stockholm/Sweden we just use home delivery here.

@alinapopescu872 3 ай бұрын

Great and fascinating information, thank you!

@EulaliaDaisy 3 ай бұрын

I've been waiting for this my guy, thank you for delivering 🙏🙏🙏 I find it fascinating that they have so many children's traffic parks. I think that's both amazing and very curious. I mean it makes sense, it teaches children from a young age how to drive safely.

@DTSY_T 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your insight here. I think this is very interesting yet fitting with the urban development happening all across North Korea with their 20x10 plan and 5 year plan for Pyongyang Development.

@marvinparker9151 2 ай бұрын

this should be the gold standard after which citys are conceptulized! tho with other architectural styles than these flat slabs please ^^

@yYkillerYy 3 ай бұрын

What sources have you used for this video? Im really interested

@user-cd4bx6uq1y 2 ай бұрын

Finally we got North Korean aesthetic

@localdude3702 2 ай бұрын

Always great videos from you! Manse!

@nateb9768 2 ай бұрын

Absolutely love these videos. You should make more looking at different regions. Let's say, California, the Philippines, Cordoba, Spain. The possibilities are endless!

@nightfall3332 3 ай бұрын

You guys do great work here, keep it up!

@ThnbAnimatrll 3 ай бұрын

Would you some day make a podcast or something telling the story of how this channel came to be? I'd love to hear your stories

@DPRKExplained 3 ай бұрын

Thinking of a Q&A at 50K subscribers

@ThnbAnimatrll 3 ай бұрын

@@DPRKExplained Counting on it!

@ExploreWithMohamed 3 ай бұрын

fantastic video, learned a lot from this city

@EvilSmonker 2 ай бұрын

Great video; feels surreal actually learning about the country instead of just hearing how evil/stupid/poor they are. Thank you!

@historiasmundiais8972 3 ай бұрын

Amazing content, the music is so good ❤

@Elliott_101 3 ай бұрын

Very informative video, thank you a lot!

@MercuryTheVexilliologyNerd 15 күн бұрын

this is such a beautiful channel, a way of humanizing Korea in a way not many if any at all think about - very much enjoy

@commenterthe3rd 2 ай бұрын

you guys are the best, thank you for clearing the fog around the dprk

@ProjectMirai64 2 ай бұрын

Very nice!

@ethandouro4334 3 ай бұрын

Amazing insight

@McIntyreBible 3 ай бұрын

This is a helpful explanation of the subject matter!

@DarkSpartan92 3 ай бұрын

Evan Roy. This video was awesome and very informative.

@RT-qd8yl 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for explaining and mentioning things that I've always been curious about, but never knew enough about to begin with to do any real research (hope that makes sense) 🙂 Also the Children's Traffic Park looks cute 😄

@ayuh8911 Ай бұрын

Its crazy how efficient a city/country has to be when it isn't plundering through GDP.

@SkipRoche31 3 ай бұрын

Extremely very interesting this is the side of NK that you would not think about

@tmortis001 Ай бұрын

Dprk buildings are so damn cute! This video is amazing

@dominateeye 3 ай бұрын

You do know that you now have to create a feature-length documentary going into excruciating detail about every single Children's Traffic Park in the country, right? They're clearly the beating heart of the entire nation. We're not going to just forget about them. On a serious note, another extremely interesting and good-faith video! It may not be the direction you want to take this channel, so I understand if it's not going to happen, but as someone who leans anarcho-socialist, I'd be curious to know whether there's room for other socialist ideologies in the DPRK political system (both ones similar to Juche and ones radically different, but still socialist). I think you'd do a good job at giving a fair overview of the situation, not demonizing the government and pointing out why its system has developed the way it has while also giving fair consideration to socialists who don't feel represented in the government (assuming there are any, for any reason). Lots of people (mostly in the West) will take any opportunity they can to criticize the DPRK and wield every issue like a spear, but I think the internet could use more frank but fair analysis of politics in the DPRK as well as other nations that the West usually sees as adversaries.

@ayuh8911 Ай бұрын

Anarcho, anchovies, other socialist ideology 😭🤣

@ayuh8911 Ай бұрын

anarcho westerners

@ayuh8911 Ай бұрын

If those whacko democratic socialist and revisionists had a chance they'd be done for.

@kueller917 3 ай бұрын

I'm curious how local commerce fits into these city structures. Is it all mixed use or are there centralized areas too?

@LandgraabIV 3 ай бұрын

Great video! What's a children's palace though?

@parkerdavis7859 3 ай бұрын

Think of a daycare, extracurricular activities hub, and playground, wrapped up and put on steroids. Primary school students will often flock there to learn instruments and dancing, visit a large library and reading center, or meander around the building and play. Search the Mangyongdae Schoolchildren's Palace if you want to see more.

@LandgraabIV 3 ай бұрын

@@parkerdavis7859 thank you!

@sebastianpeady5850 3 ай бұрын

I hope DPRK Explained goes on The Deprogram at some point.

@buran-ksmdrm 3 ай бұрын

I'm glad there's intersection between the channels, agreed.

@maya07_11 20 күн бұрын

the ultimate collab

@stanleybell3857 2 ай бұрын

I would love to know were you get the videos/information you use from, it is very interesting!

@rodelycoy1853 3 ай бұрын

Urban planning is really key to buidling great cities.

@sinthoras1917 3 ай бұрын

Really interesting video. My only criticism is that the special buildings being shown on the map were so small, they were really hard to see

@trainzmarcel2074 3 ай бұрын

this is so beautiful

@sadsovietspy 2 ай бұрын

Who else plays Soviet Republic: Workers and Resources? Because I'm going to apply these concepts.

@Brick-Life 2 ай бұрын

This is much better than City Beautiful's video on Pyongyang

@jeffrey8979 2 ай бұрын

Man, I wanna visit the children's traffic park

@liliya_aseeva 2 ай бұрын

I like the fact that Hamhung still has a railway line running through center of the city. If once the city would want a metro line, they could repurpose this industrial line for such purposes. Also, as far as I know, only Belarus from exSoviet countries retained a specific category for heavily industrialized towns, namely, 'agrotown' "агрогородок". Other ex-Soviet countries now have strictly three categories - cities, towns 'пгт' and villages. Gorky oblast still also has several 'рп' 'Рабочий посёлок' "workers' town" but this is rather an exception from a general rule.

@RICKY-RIKON 2 ай бұрын

At seeing at the future 19:11 ! Because order is progres! Either India can pick a little bit of those receipt??? WONDERFUL !

@akhil0113 2 ай бұрын

What did u mean by India can pick up a little of those receipt?

@maya07_11 20 күн бұрын

please make a video about the children's traffic parks!!

@BeginnerSkier115 3 ай бұрын

*Inserts the song "We built this city". I love this.

@MercuryTheVexilliologyNerd 15 күн бұрын

we built this city! we built this city on social-is-uhhhmm

@robertoperez3714 3 ай бұрын

One question so the materials to built building r good

@naturalcambion3747 3 ай бұрын

This sort of Socialist planning will be the future of the world. It is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. It is also sustainable and environmentally conscious.

@Tovarish_Lenin1922 3 ай бұрын

Please make a video about North Korean painting 🙏

@michaeldileo1954 3 ай бұрын

I'd love to play cities skylines with these cities! This was a great video!

@CodeBoxDE 3 ай бұрын

this is how i design my cities in Cities: Skylines ^^

@True_NOON 2 ай бұрын

13:56 truely what we are missing (genuienly as there isnt much graspable concepts of driving regulations untill only months before a driving test , tho not sure if idd trade all of our stuff for just the traffic park , wouldve been fun tho)

@DavidNunezPNW 3 ай бұрын

I love this video and it makes me so excited to visit the DPRK when tourism resumes!

@mrrockdaddy100 2 ай бұрын

It will be nice if you did a cities of South Korea

@MercuryTheVexilliologyNerd 15 күн бұрын

this is about Korea, not South Korea

@pqlasmdhryeiw8 2 ай бұрын

Where do you get all that footage from? From the DPRK itself? All these clips of clean, shiny streets and buildings - that must be stock footage, right? A simple tourist could never provide that high-quality of video clips.

@Kuricang31 2 ай бұрын

The state news agency KCNA has a lot of them. You can access them online or try looking at some of the archives from East German and Soviet Union libraries if you're interested

@Igorinrussia 3 ай бұрын

Amazing channel!! Thank you! Hope to visit North Korea one day!

@tekaklk928 3 ай бұрын

i love the music in the background

@Hunter_Morgan 3 ай бұрын

❤

@inezaa 2 ай бұрын

Would love a video on the education/child welfare system in NK

@SyaqilHazeeqHasrilSufiantoPl1 Ай бұрын

Can You Do A Video Of The KPA (Korean People's Army ), And The KPRA ( Korean People's Revelutionary Army )

@willy.william4582 2 ай бұрын

Say what you want about socialist ideals, they do plan cities well compared with the american suburban mess

@valeriansamborski5844 3 ай бұрын

Children's traffic park! I don't know why I find this so amusing. Maybe because this is so alien to me, or maybe because of its acclaimed commonness in the DPRK. Although, come to think of it, I do vaguely remember a children's traffic park, or what I can only assume was one, (ruin and decay being the norm,) to have been a thing in the soviet days in the village that I spend a good deal of my childhood in, and that place had I'd vaguer, 10k inhabitants in its hay-days at best(?). Maybe "children's traffic parks" are a common "socialist characteristic ". XD

@brianschmitz9759 2 ай бұрын

I’ve heard of Kaesong

@avus-kw2f213 3 ай бұрын

13:55 The fact that A lot of them were built at the same time indicates that car ownership was expected to grow

@orb3796 2 ай бұрын

commenting for the algorhythm

@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions 3 ай бұрын

I wonder what South Korea would be doing with all these cities?

@TranslucentGanon 3 ай бұрын

I GOT IT RIGHT

@aidanniblock6186 3 ай бұрын

this is a very well done and education video but I had one question watching this. What are your sources and or how you know this and so much about the hermit kingdom?

@donacatanguma 3 ай бұрын

Wonderful. Thanks so much for the knowledge. What are the children’s traffic parks? May the DPRK continue to Flourish and Stay Forever Strong 🇰🇵 🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵

@mobileoppressionpalace6728 2 ай бұрын

15-minute cities

@penguinpingu3807 3 ай бұрын

Pyongyang recent development felt like a Chinese city but more in line with socialist principles.

@morningstararun6278 2 ай бұрын

Chinese cities are also pretty much in line with the Socialist principles, when you compare it with the western cities.

@user-fd4sh3zl5z 2 ай бұрын

Billions of cost to built town so

@Alex_FRD 3 ай бұрын

North Korean architecture > South Korean concrete squares.

@amrit6252 3 ай бұрын

We can truly live like this too. The urban sprawl in the west is outrageous and the development that occurs is purely for profit rather than bettering the lives of the people. The development that focuses on people staying and interacting within their own communities rather than staying inside is so beautiful too, as capitalism breeds this feeling of isolation from the people.