An interesting photo series showing North Koreans on a domestic tour at the Pohyon-sa Buddhist temple at Mt. Myohyang. This 11th century temple is considered an important North Korean historic treasure, and although taken over by the state, it still houses important religious texts and a few active monks (at least I hope they are active and not actors).
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I’ve read that monks at these monasteries do tend to be actors
Kind of like the DPRK “fans” at sporting events played outside the DPRK.
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December 16, 2011 at 4:43 pm
I’m actually writing a post about the citizen actors in North Korea – I’m not convinced either way on the issue, but I plan to post some pics of those we had suspected.
And thanks for the shout out – it’s always appreciated, although you are right, I’m super busy with work and not all that social with other blogs to feel that I can pass it on.
December 17, 2011 at 2:32 pm