Wet and Wild was, America still claim that as the first water park today even though it just combined a bunch of things Australia and Europe had for years. Also the USA is always touting disneyworld internationally.
@@jaybee4288 but literally the 2 world biggest parks (don’t know about water parks) belong to American nations. The Disney to, obviously, USA and Beto Carrero World in Brazil’s South region. There’s some sense in bragging about these as milestones, but can’t say about Wet and Wild since the only thing I literally know about it is it’s name!
The opening of a extremely large water park would be a headline in the UK or an individual American state. It's not that unusual. Better than boring rubbish about politics
It was never meant to be open during the season. It was built only for propaganda and nothing else. They had Chinese contractors build it and North Koreans don't know how to maintain it. The few times it was they brought in Chinese.
@@rodzandzas Doni recites quotes from Hitler Hitler: JEWS AND MIGRANTS ARE POISONING ARYAN BLOOD Doni: MIGRANTS ARE "POISONING THE BLOOD OF OUR COUNTRY"
11:51 This one is from somebody from the "New Socialist Party of Japan", they wrote "This water park is a great achievement of socialism; capitalism could not accomplish this." WTF??? There are water parks in Japan...
She would go through a lot of crap if she actually said that. Wikipedia: "Criminal sanctions are sometimes levied against homosexuality or non-conforming gender expression deemed to be, "against the socialist lifestyle." While punishment was rare, it has been reported by The Korea Times that North Korea has executed gay couples under this law."
I think the funniest thing is that this video looks like it’s old like the 90s but this was probably most likely filmed in 2015 or 2017 idk but the video makes it look like 90s
Anyone else notice the background instrumental music being the "pizza time" theme from that spiderman ps2 game? Was that edited in, or is that official with the video?
Leonel Morales let me see *looks at UN list* about 102 people we're in he commercial (if u even call it that) about 3 people died from a un-none reason
Where in the world you find adds inside of an family water park? Im from germany and here it's not a common thing. Sometimes you have vending machines or a cafeteria with products from well-known brands but that's it.
Because they have no popular culture at all. A part from the select few, they don’t listen to any music except their own they make. There’s also no commercial brands anywhere
Anyone else notice how the women were relegated to three patterns of swimsuits and all the men's were identical. It was almost like they were wearing uniforms instead of leisurewear.
They probably have to return the swimsuits after filming. I watched a documentary of someone who visited, the locals performed a dance for the visitors with coats on and once it was over they had to return the coats.
@@carmenalexis4787still dystopian in feeling though. Especially when you remember that the people are only allowed certain haircuts, making them all look the same as at least 15 other people
It seems like their factories make very limited styles of clothing. I watched another documentary, and noticed almost immediately that several women were wearing the same exact 1960s style sheath dress, and only in 3 colors. There were teenage boys wearing puffer coats, but they were identical and seemed to only come in 3 colors, as well! Also, the authorities making this film seem to have color coded everyone too? Pink for little girls and blue for little boys, and seemingly nothing else. This feels surreal, and is strange and sad...
Lost it when we cut to the gym and other non-pool areas and it's still just people in swimsuits working out barefoot. They couldn't at least give their actors a change of clothes? 🤣
If this took place during the 90's, then that would have been around the time of that famine that killed hundreds of thousands to millions of North Koreans. The numbers are hard to gather. They kept the data fuzzy.
@Aaryan Shrestha Trump was out thata way awhile ago . He wasn't there to talk peace with Kim , he was there to tell South Korea that there would be no reunification . Corporate America doesn't want to lose their corporate colony.
Thats a slavic think. Militants are our family and we are our nations militants. We had in a school many events with our military, like machines showcase and participation in military activities just for fun. And many members of our families were involved with military, especially older generations. So its not uncommon for militants to be at some events as a side show.
@@FransceneJK98 And? What's your point? You have any proof it doesn't? Just making a point that if you don't have proof then you're the one making up propaganda in support of your own ideals. People are just people all around the world. It's their own countries that manipulate them into believing people everywhere else are bad.
Out of context, it looks like a pretty cool waterpark, albeit designed by someone who doesn't quite understand how one functions. It has some real liminal space vibes. But then I noticed there are only about four different bathing suits, everyone is wearing one of two different swim caps, and the dystopia set in. If Huxley had a waterpark in Brave New World, this would be it.
That water is also clearly NOT treated with chlorine, the color is completely off. The plebians in North Korea don't even have access to clean drinking water, which why they all have parasites. That water is probably absolutely disgusting.
Decadence is like a snow ball rolling downhill. We think these things are good because we remember the wholesome times as seen in this video. But our luxuries have quickly decayed us to the point that our water parks look trashy while theirs look like you could eat off the floor.
What year is this? The music is 1980s. Camera quality is 1990s. Pool toys and clothes are from the 2000s. I suspect that the park was built in the 2010s.
I remember being in fourth grade (2013-2014) when this opened and watching CNN Student News’ report on it in class. None of us knew anything about North Korea and as such we all wanted to go there because of the water park.
@@The_Food_PoliceI’m embarrassed to admit I was almost one of them. I knew I must have missed something, so I scrolled back up and gave it a 2nd read. I’m glad I did because I needed that chuckle today.
2:11 I like how the narrator emphasised “for people” in case we got confused and we thought it was for- oh I don’t know, the elite top 1% of soulless servants to the state
Reminds me of the propaganda films of the Third Reich and how happy the inmates in their concentration camps were.....before they were marched to their death and after the cameras were gone.
Marcus A.H. Yes it’s Tuesday again, I’m so happy, unfortunately two of my friends starved to death yesterday. Oh well, at least the bird will cheer me up
Like the uniform swimwear, the fact that nobody is allowed to sit or place items on the chairs, the fact that lots of attractions look like they are built for small crowds to enjoy, not actual theampark crowds, or maybe seeing the same people over and over again.
Its all very truman show-like. Clearly acting. Alot of their bathing suits are the same that they wear, some of the people in the workout rooms looked emaciated, i saw bones protruding out of some guy’s back, and the paleness of the skin from truly never seeing the sun enough and being mal-nourished. The leader is too deranged to realize no one else falls for this fake shit
Maybe because everyone there is wearing 2-3 of the same swimsuits and swim caps, also the liminal space vibes the place gives. You could easily turn this into an anolog horror video with minimal editing
This reminds me of the scene in Triangle of Sadness when the rich lady insisted all the ships staff must enjoy swimming too and makes everyone stop what they're doing and line up to jump off the ship into the water "for fun"
This is the kind of comment that will get some gutter type comments in the future…. I’ll spare y’all a joke or two in this regard. Not my thing to crack jokes like this. Just point out the obvious…
This was probably the happiest day in any of those kids entire lives, the best time they will ever have. It is really sad, but at least they can look back on that one day the army came and took them to a waterpark for a day to be filmed for a propaganda video. It reminds me of that one N. Korean defector who said she never knew love could be experienced between two people and not just for Kim Jung Un until she saw Titanic on a smuggled in portable dvd player - they have no idea what they are missing in life.
Omg I came to say the same thing. It’s gotta be the best day in the lives of everyone there. It’s sad. They’re a country of prisoners, occasionally given a treat to help the regime. The pawns played their part.
They are probably the elite party families. Who dont really lack for anything. Like the ones at the "model school kindergarten" in Pyongyang that Russian and Chinese tourists get to see, where they dress up and perform theater in elaborate costumes, do experiential learning about trees and animals in a national history museum type gallery, etc. Then most kids are in the countryside eating onions or seaweed their parents dig up. But honestly as long as not harmed or starving, kids are fine as long as they feel parents care for them and get along with peers/have friendship. A 5yo don't know any better and can be happy with basic needs and good relationships. It's knowing that it only gets worse that's heartbreaking, it's the older kids and adults I feel sorry for.
Well of course! The west is evil with all their horrible capitalist ideals, so they would *never* adopt any western luxuries, pastimes, or products into their society 😳 Everything must be created by the great leader
They already credited Kim Jong Il for wanting to open the park as his legacy, so until Kim reveals to us he invented time travel, we will not know the truth.
That water park was probably open for exactly one day - to film that video. And then everyone was sent back to their one bedroom apartments and work camp.
You people literally just be making assumptions based on no evidence. Also there’s no way in hell they would use people from work camps in these videos.
Love how they only got one costume change. Here is your swimwear. Wear it all day, for all activities even when water or action is not required. Also barely any children, just adult actors. Zero teenagers. How do they not understand how rediculous this looks to all of us? And the foreigners walking through so awkwardly. So silly how their country tours include 'the waterpark' or 'the shopping centre' haha like seriously, it's the Truman show.
@@no_one2197 I take it this is your first time hearing about North Korea? Apparently the park got shut down and now its in disrepair. They're essentially actors putting on a show for the tourists and those watching this thinking it's real. Also think of the ludicrous nature of using a single water park as a selling point for your country. It doesn't add up on top of the already well known fact fact that a majority of its citizens live in poverty. 😅
What got me the most was the rock climbing and bowling with no shoes. Along with the "this is a water park for children", with no children playing on it, in fact there were barely any children in the whole video. Then the dives had to hurt because they were more like belly flips over a proper dive. Followed by building all of that in 9 months must have taken some very serious corner cutting to pull off, of very serious worker abuse.
The funniest part for me was also the "this is a water park for CHILDREN" and then you just see pressure washer force jets of water shooting across the entire thing😂 children would drown if they went in there
Why is everything a propaganda just because it's North Korea? Can't it be just their commercial? People outside North Korea have to realize foreign culture is just gradually being introduced into this country. OF COURSE amusement areas and fast food from Western culture and even cuisine from Asian countries are foreign to them! It's also dehumanizing to treat them that they don't have brains just because they have never experienced most of the current pop culture and current events we have the privilege to use and see. Worse of all, we act as if our own governments don't do propaganda and disinformation on us, with thousands of news and journalists literally lying to us about anything. The current events in Palestine right now is a really glaring example.
This is the first time in my life that I’ve ever seen somebody bowling, barefoot. And I would imagine it’s probably not really comfortable to run on a treadmill without shoes on. I think I’ve done it before and I regretted it the next day. It’s so odd that they would not have had issues for them for those activities.
I honestly don't think they know how those things are normally done. They've never seen some of this stuff in person! Sometimes even the officials! Then, other people were saying the propagandists filming this probably just handed out one set of clothes for everyone participating, which they will take back once filming is done. The amount of work put into this is stsggering, and scary...
“The park has decayed and fallen into disrepair since it's initial use as a propaganda tool. As of 2023, none of the attractions are capable of holding water, and all of the filtration machinery has broken down due to a lack of maintenance. At last report the facility is closed with no plans to reopen.” -Wikipedia
Really interesting that in the sports area segment, all participants were young, in very good shape and good at it, like professionals, not like an average water park visitor
It angers me and makes me beyond sad that this day was probably the ONLY day these people will ever experience fun of any sort. This park is all for show, we all know this is.
That woman at about 4:27 who grabs the boy to make sure he’s following the others in the pool made me so sad. You can see.m genuine fear she has for the boy. Like she is so afraid if he doesn’t behave perfectly he’ll be hurt. So sad
This makes me so sad... Also, it's surreal to me--the water park my mom would take me and my sister to as kids has that same frog slide, but green and yellow. They also had those spray ring arches. And that place has been open since the early 1980s; I wonder how long it took them to source the stuff for this place. Somehow everything looks so dated, like it's glazed almost--old attractions kept propped up long past their normal life span. Sadder still, I cannot help but sincerely wonder who this is for. I am grateful for the English narration, but if this is supposed to be a tourism video for, say, rich Chinese tourists, then WHY is it in English? There is no way most North Korean people will ever get to set foot in that place, is there? :(
It's in English because this isn't for its citizens. They want other countries to think that they are all good and fine and having tons of fun. A few reports say that this isn't even open any longer and I believe it.
I bet this was never intended for use. It was built just for the propaganda video, a Potemkin waterpark, so to speak. The leaders of NK care far more about their image than the lives of their people.
Yes!! I just posted a comment asking the same question: who is it made for? Very strange and seems they’re trying to convince the rest of the world how fun it is in N Korea.
Considering that most of the information about North Korea comes from South Korea and the bloc that first staged a bombing raid equal to the largest in World War II, it is not surprising that you will not even have the knowledge that nothing good can happen in North Korea. Do you know about those who returned to it after fleeing? Do you know about the laws? Have you seen the inhabitants of North Korea yourself? No. Usually, all you know is a runaway fugitive who cries about the fact that her parents were executed in the camp, who, when checked, left with her family, but makes money from tearful books and interviews. Do you know how many channels from Koreans were blocked on RU-vid and other platforms*? channels that had videos and photographs of work in the garden, at home, etc. - ordinary everyday ones?
Lmao not this being North Korea's "pride and joy". I also love how the narrator points out what was for kids and the amount of time they reiterated how happy the people were
Okay but seriously though, can someone please explain to me like what the point is of North Korea and other overly governed countries. Like I don’t understand it. I don’t get why NK is always trying to “appeal” to the rest of the world that they’re “so great” like… we already know you guys are shit and completely behind technologically compared to like 90% of the world. And with all the money they wasted trying to act like their people enjoy their lives they probably could have used that money towards actually making things for the people. Like a real water park or amusement park or something. I don’t understand how a leader such as the Kim’s can totally see how shitty their own leadership is and how many people suffer and die and go “yeah this is fine” like from a moral standpoint I just can’t comprehend it. Can someone explain what they’re trying to accomplish?
2:11 Ah yes, an indoor wading pool. For people! I remember the last time I went to a waterpark they did indeed have a wading pool but access was strictly limited to heads of fresh cauliflower and old shoelaces. I'll tell you what, I never made that mistake again! Now I only visit waterparks with wading pools for people! Thanks, North Korea!
Bruh, their country is basically a giant abandoned landscape. They are like a colony of ants surrounded by the grass of a giant field and no other things.
@Shar Pee I dunno. I suppose a NK defector might be able to answer that. I'm guessing people can choose to go there, but it's just strictly open during certain time periods?
@@AntimonyxAngel It's me, shar pes on his alternate google account. I came back to this video because, despite it being shitty, really shitty propaganda it's oddly entertaining. I guess the Monsoon water park is only to be used by the 'tomatoes' aka high ranked NK citizens like party officials/military personnel. Or, the park is built to be used for socialist propaganda and abandoned.
This feels so otherworldly and something about seeing them being happy for perhaps the one of the only times in their life is so heartwarming yet disturbing I mean how it’s portrayed here makes it looks like some kind of paradise in a perfect utopian world with its generic look and feel of the parks and attractions as well as the people
These are the families of folks who live in Pyongyang, which is the capital of North Korea. Rest assured they’re a privileged caste and likely are having a good time. Just because it’s a totalitarian state doesn’t mean people aren’t people.
@@Jordan-eh3fv Exactly. Some people will see one of their belief invalidated and then immediately proceed into thinking that "this is an exception, I'm still right".
Did you not read the FUCKING title of this video? PROPAGANDA FILM FOR A WATER PARK. Propaganda as in, you'll look like you're having fun or your father will be sent to hard labor for life.
@@wendyhill8230 I don’t think America intentionally deprives their citizens of basic needs either, the working class clearly doesn’t suffer as much as unemployed,, or people with liabilities the government doesn’t support (families)
@@wendyhill8230 and dprk receives a ton of funding from china, and they choose to spend it on weapons projects, so it’s not that they’re choosing to starve their citizens, they’re choosing not to help them
@@wendyhill8230 Oh, a real job? Lets see. As soon as I got out of high school I went to work in a slaughter house. Then I became a trucker for 20 years. Then I was an Ironworker for 18 years. Now I'm back to being a truck driver. You think China doesn't exploit people around the world for resources? You really think DPRK doesn't deprive their people of even basic humanity? Why do people risk their very lives to leave the "workers paradise" ?
Fun fact: the waterpark bearing the name "Alpamare" is actually named after the Alpamare in Pfäffikon, canton of Schwyz, the biggest waterpark in Switzerland (source: Daily NK). Although Kim Jong-un attended school in Bern, it is entirely possible that he visited the Alpamare as part of a school trip from where he took the name home.
Crazy to think about but my grandmother once in her lifetime had a vacation in North Korea when USSR was still present. She said she and other Soviet tourists weren't allowed to go anywhere without a guide or a soldier, they weren't allowed to film or record anything. The food was pretty decent. The elevator in hotel she stayed at never worked. She asked a Korean worker, who knew Russian well, why elevator was never working. He answered: "We are lacking in electricity, so we turn on the elevator when a check team arrives, and turn it off when a check team leaves". This whole sentence about a single elevator said me everything about North Korea. They put on a facade about "ideal communist country" while they lack in literally everything and their people don't trust anyone cause they're always afraid of being punished.
Under Stalin, yes. But from the 50s onward, the authorities only really cared if you spoke out against the regime, and even then just locked you in a psychiatric hospital. 60s-70s USSR was mostly a slightly nicer version of current day Russia, with better benefits and less sweatsuits.
That is literally not what happened. They have had the water park open other times after that. For tourists and presumedly Pyongyang residents when they can. These comments are so dumb.
You can tell something is a bit off because everyone works out at the gym barefoot and in swim wear like they don’t know proper gym safety and hygiene. Of course there normally is no reason to workout as most are trying to conserve energy from little calories.
This is so funny and sad at the same time. Like imagine America making one of these for every water park we have and then just releasing it to the world being like “omg look! We made another one!”
looks like a great water park though, and looking at the surprised reaction of most truly west-brainwashed commenters, it's well founded to boast about it by the Koreans.
I’ve never seen an international commercial for the water park I grew up near. A billion and one ads in my city my entire life, but not international. And the one near me had an attached amusement park and was a lot bigger. I’m sure Disney and Universal get international ads, but they’re much bigger deals. Also, another water park opened up near me and I didn’t even know it existed until it killed a kid. *That* got a lot of attention.
This is more like "state-mandated fun" where citizens should visit at least once a week but not too often. Just enough to let the leaders know you're very grateful to enjoy such a great resource and so happy they provided it but polite enough to share such a fun resource with everyone else because they deserve to have as much fun as you had.
Why is everything a propaganda just because it's North Korea? Can't it be just their commercial? People outside North Korea have to realize foreign culture is just gradually being introduced into this country. OF COURSE amusement areas and fast food from Western culture and even cuisine from Asian countries are foreign to them! It's also dehumanizing to treat them that they don't have brains just because they have never experienced most of the current pop culture and current events we have the privilege to use and see. Worse of all, we act as if our own governments don't do propaganda and disinformation on us, with thousands of news and journalists literally lying to us about anything. The current events in Palestine right now is a really glaring example.
