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Fear and Loathing in China

Once we had come up with the idea and developed it into a business plan it was time to give birth to the 1st generation Golf GameBook – a handheld scoring device. The first GameBook devices were manufactured in China and us, two golfers from Finland, ended up getting a technical education on the side. It wasn’t…

In the Middle of the Dictatorship, part 5

This story is a continuation of the previous blog post “In the Middle of the Dictatorship, part 4“… Confused and shocked So tourists are seeing everything that the North Korean government want to show, and nothing more. “This hotel is our country’s best, that’s second best, there’s our Dear Leader’s University, this Triumphal Arch is…

In the Middle of the Dictatorship, part 3

This story is a continuation of the previous blog post “In the Middle of the Dictatorship, part 2“… Give me your phone and go to the line An independent trip to North Korea is impossible. The only chance is to join a group that travels together 24/7 in North Korea. You are absolutely not allowed…

In the Middle of the Dictatorship, part 1

I got feedback from one of our British reader (thank you for your email Paul) that he would like to hear more about my trip to North Korea, which I wrote shortly in my first blog post. You can imagine that Paul isn’t the first person to ask how it was. It was so different…