It's so sad you forgot to mention, that Pyongyang has the oldest running trolleybus in the world. It has gone 8 million kilometers, and has 161 "5만" stars. The model is called Chollima 9.25, tail number 3. The reason why Korean people keep it running for more than 50 years is that comrade Kim Il Sung once traveled in it.

The opening title shot with the words behind the Juche Tower was super cool and the combination of the explanatory animations for each line with street footage was also really engaging. All in all, it was a very calming and informative video, thank you!

As a South Korean, the North Korean transportation system shown in the video looks like the 70s in the south. Originally, it was the same country, the same Korean people. It's a pity that the difference is so wide.

I really like trolley busses, I honestly think they’re the best public transportation method behind trains/trams, and over busses. So it was really cool to learn Pyongyang has such an extensive network. If i may ask: you’ve done quite a few videos about Pyongyang’s public transit, could you (at some point in the future) look at the transit for other dprk cities? I think it would be a really interesting learning experience to hear about places that aren’t in the capital.

I don't know if you're just very interested in the DPRK or a state-affiliated channel but regardless this insight into North Korean life is very valuable and provides a good insight into the country for English speakers

Public Transportation in Korea has always intrigued me, i have a book written in Japanese about the Korean railways and trams

Very few channels give as deep an insight into the DPRK as this. Keep up the great work! 👏🏼

Such amazing videos! The videos, the animations, the explanation, everything is perfect! Thank you for showing us how the DPRK works! Looking forward to the next video! Cheers!

There are some slight mentions of it in the comments, but all the "new" trams & trolleybuses are rebuilds of older vehicles. Some of the older trolleybuses (seen in other videos) were in very poor condition, operating very slowly and appearing to have no suspension. It looks like the new trolleybuses are at least in decent mechanical condition. Thank you for details of the tram & trolleybus routes which I haven't seen anywhere previously.

thanks for all the effort you put on in the making of these videos really appreciate it !

I'm surprised at how environmentally friendly the city is. Geo thermal power, electric trollies and trains, and very few cars (of course that's cause most people can't afford and/or not allowed to have one, but still).

8:51 That little green tram is interesting, cause it doesn't look like an eastern bloc design at all. It has that German/Austrian/Swiss vibe to it. Almost looks like Zurich trams. It would be interesting to know how it got there

Ding ding! I'm a tram and I approve this video! Great footage!

Awesome video. Could you make one about department stores or grocery shopping in the DPRK?

I loved your Pyongyang metro video so much that watching it several times wasn't enough (Could've spoken about Kwangmyong Station though) . I was WAITING for the other forms of Transport and it finally arrived.. thank you 😊 P.S please let us know if they're planning to extend the metro system

Another excellent, informative and well produced video 👍

I love seeing DPRK explained's high quality vids.

Excellent well researched and detailed video, well done!

Super interesting. Thanks for yet another video. They don't come out nearly often enough!

It makes me a bit sad to see the roads becoming more congested with vehicles. I've always been very impressed with their ability to maintain such quiet and easily traversable roads in a city of so many citizens! I hope they don't at some point also lose the traffic police (which could possibly be an interesting video topic as well). Fantastic video as always, happy to be able to support you as a Patron and I encourage others to do the same if able. Your talent and obvious passion for sharing informative and unbiased content on the DPRK are more than deserving!

I see a lot of bikes in this and other videos, I wonder what kind of bike infrastructure they have? do they all run on the sidewalks, or the streets, or are there dedicated lanes? dedicated routes? I'm curious. How prevalant are e-bikes? Are there cargo bikes?

your editing is actually amazing. especially the parts with the map on the table

Trolleybuses are less polluting than petrol or diesel buses. In that regard, the DPRK is far ahead of most countries.

I wish we had these kinds of systems in our city

The green trams are ex Zurich stock built in Switzerland.

Great production quality and explanation as always!

Such a great video! Loved the visuals, you always make great progress with the editing! 😁

I love your videos about the benefits of normal life experienced by DPRK citizens. I just bought your shirt to represent and support your hard work. Keep it up!

I just subscribed to this beautiful Channel

These videos are so educational! Thank you for helping me on my research papers.

I like how the lines are at least somewhat in number order. My city’s bus routes are 22, 23, 29, 35, 49, 70 etc, seemingly random numbers. There was originally a plan for them but there may as well not be now because they’re so random.

i’ve seen some pics of conventional buses converted into trolley buses in Pyongyang, it happened to the Ikarus and Karosa models

Great video as always! Where do you get all of your footage? It’s different from most footage of the DPRK by journalists. Would also be interested in learning about urbanism and housing in North Korea - I see a lot of the older housing is based on Soviet traditions, it would be cool to explore further

Now this is how to start a morning.

Very well made video .

Me: I should really start studying now Also me:

Wow. The whole country is like a time capsule to 20th Century Soviet communism. Those are they exact same trams and trolley buses I used to ride in the early 1990's in Bucharest! All of that footage looks like it could have been shot in post-communist Bucharest 30 or so years ago!

Utterly fascinating. Thank you.

I was waiting for your video

Brilliant presentation. I really love your work. Thanks again for the effort!!!

A video on bikes would be cool

fun fact: the Thongil 181 is literally just the Tatra KT8D5 with new bodywork.

10 trolley bus lines and four tram lines is hardly something to brag about for such a big city. Even with the subway, it seems the system is in efficient for the number of people.

The green trams are old trams frpm Zurich, Switzerland.

Great video.. As a Pt.2 or extension, do you have a similar breakdown of the bus fleet by type/manufacturer. And any interior shots? Finally what's the ticketing system like? Integrated/ smartcard/ pay driver. And can tour groups go on trolleybus/tram or are they limited to the metro?

I'd love to spend a day hopping on and off trolleybuses, trams, and the subway!

Nice Video Dude, but there is one point to improve. Please overlap the different Levels of Transportation to show how dense the network actually is at the end of the video. Its also better to see connections and so on. Carry On :)

tfw a city that’s supposedly dirt poor has a better public transportation system than 95% of u.s. and canadian cities

I love Pyongyang, it vibes ✨

I think that is the only trolley-bus 'overhead' maintenance vehicle that is actually a trolley-bus I have ever seen.

Great video! Thank you for sharing your deep knowledge about the DPRK. It's a fascinating place. Do you know how the bus and tram network deal with electricity load shedding, do you know if key infrastructure are being excluded and will be run on a priority line that still will have power?

It will be funny to say you are riding Air Koryo but actually riding their taxis while drinking Air Koryo branded soft drinks

A great little video.

This video makes Pyongyang look pleasant to live in lol

Most, or all (i don't know exactly) of the Tatra T4D are from my home Town. They are all unmodernised Trams, build before 1984.

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That moment when Pyongyang has somewhat better public transportation system than most Indonesian cities, even in Jakarta.

How do they pay? Tokens, paper tickets, cards with magnetic strips or rfid?

I'm so glad I found this channel. A bit sad so many westerners couldn't care less about learning about any other country besides their own let alone NK.

What is the background song, it sound really fantastic and affinity

Thanks for sharing the nice parts of NK

Excellent video.

The fact that Pyongyang has better public transport than LA just shows how bad the USA is getting

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Line 3 has changed its route via the new housing area.

....very surprised you are not mentioning the old Volvo taxis!!

I noticed no transport service goes to Sunan Airport. For people flying in and out of the city would they be basically forced to use a taxi, or is there some other means of getting from the airport to the city?

6:00 hybrid service vehicle/public trolleybus.

This video makes me want to move to Pyongyang

Few cars and lots of public transport? A place where you can just walk or ride a bike without constantly worrying about fast moving hunks of metal and death- sounds great- keep it that way- cars are inefficient, dangerous and make urban environments unpleasant to be in with all the noise and choking fumes, it would be nice to be able to just sit on a quiet street and people watch without being subjected to toxic smoke and loud noise! Cars are for long distances, the need for a car in a well-planned city should be very rare- trams, subways, trains and buses don't clog streets and create traffic flow problems the way cars do either! Don't be seduced by the "freedom" cars bring because they come with many problems and once you adapt your city to cars it is hard to undo it again- they become a societal addiction and getting back your quiet, walkable, bikeable, well connected city back will be next to impossible!

Funny to see Tatra trams and Berlin subway trains operating in Pyongyang. Here in Berlin we only phased out the last Tatra trams this year, for accessibility reasons and the same subway trains are still operating today. So Pyongyang isn't lagging behind in that area. Only the system being expanded with a few more lines would probably good for a city of that size.

10:10 I noticed that there are lots of minibuses and minivans throughout the video. Are they public transport or private vehicles?

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Awesome vehicles of Pyongyang!

I wonder where the sources of all this videos are coming from.

glorious!

Pyongyang has better public trainsportatio that most of US cities

Better public transit then LA 😂

Hmmmm I'm wondering how money and transportation works in the DPRK in general as well as in Pyongyang specifically. Is any of it subsidized or is most of it subsidized? If money passes hands per journey, what is the average cost of say a mile distance in each of the different forms of transport ? ? ?

I liked it when he talked about Pysongyang pbulic transport.

This system of public transport wouldn't work in American or Canadian cities because most people don't want to live in high-rise apartment buildings. We prefer detached houses. That creates urban sprawl. Hence the need for cars. I don't see anyway around private automobile ownership here. I would love public transit options but it's just not feasible for us.

DPRK rail network please

Crazy to think that the same Ikarus buses and Tatra trams are still running in Hungary.

Its very interesting that these are exactly the same tram models wich driven in Berlin in the GDR to the year 2015. Maybe Berlin sold this trams? When I see this video. It looks more free than the GDR. Look there are imported cars. They weren't in the GDR.

newest tram is acctualy rebuild T8 (tatra8) from Prague CKD

Damn their tram system is actually really long, covering almost the entirety of the city, no wonder people would prefer public transport (cheaper, more convenient and theirs alot of them to chose from, easier access...)

Doesn't seem to be a diesel bus network for places not under the wire?What of suburban heavy rail and ferries? Although I think that I did spot a diesel bus at the end going around that corner.

I love all the old trams and trolley buses.......please don't get rid of them. We miss them in America 😕

Some Dutch style cycling infra would be good. As well as a general upgrade and expansion of the public transport system. A lot of the streets are so wide and car centric.

Lovely beautiful city

Ikarus 260T and Ikarus 280T Trolleybuses service Running is Pyongyang?

please upload the background music. Thank you

I wish I could find telegram groups or something that showed off the DPRK more, or gave more information into their history/ideology

When Pyongyang has way better transportation system than Manila:

really reminds me of jay foreman..

Oh, so many second hand Tatra trams 😍

The info about the trams is a bit misleading. The trams are not old from a fellow socialist state. They are very old, but they were sold to NK by the Prague public transit a couple of years ago! The livery is not specific to Pyongyang, they simply did not repaint the original Prague livery. The “modern” trams are not really new, they are the same Czech trams just with a new design on the outside with 60 year old technology underneath.

...no normal buses? 😮

Wow I can’t wait to ride the metro in where is this again??? NORTH KOREA!!!???

Do any of your donations go to the North Korean (DPRK) government? I'm in the U.S. and appreciate your work, but can get in deep trouble for supporting you if any of the funds go to the government in the DPRK