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英國第5頻道最受歡迎的旅遊紀錄片《麥可‧帕林在北韓》系列
透過旅行家麥可‧帕林的角度
世界上最神秘的國家生活將一覽無遺
2018年5月，英國老牌搞笑團體蒙地蟒蛇劇團成員兼旅行家麥可‧帕林花費兩週的時間在神秘的北韓國度深度旅遊。在一片沒有網路和電話訊號的禁地，他看到的是閃閃發光的高聳摩天大樓和豪華的地下車站。麥可在橫越北韓途中走訪了不少地方，和各行各業的北韓人相處，因而完成最受歡迎的旅遊紀錄片《麥可‧帕林在北韓》。
他分享每天在北韓的所見所聞，其中不僅描述他的親身經歷，也分享當局不希望他曝光的景象。內容闡述他與北韓居民的日常對話，也坦率地談論他與北韓政府的獨特相遇過程，同時記錄他對於這片土地的迷戀，這是一個他前所未見的全新世界，也因此激發許多人對於北韓的著迷與恐懼。透過麥可溫暖且充滿智慧的描述，搭配精美的影像，一窺北韓這個隱士之國的真實現況。
A glimpse of life inside the world’s most secretive country, as told by Britain’s best-loved travel writer.
In May 2018, former Monty Python stalwart and intrepid globetrotter Michael Palin spent two weeks in the notoriously secretive Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, a cut-off land without internet or phone signal, where the countryside has barely moved beyond a centuries-old peasant economy but where the cities have gleaming skyscrapers and luxurious underground train stations. His resulting documentary for Channel 5 was widely acclaimed.
Now he shares his day-by-day diary of his visit, in which he describes not only what he saw – and his fleeting views of what the authorities didn’t want him to see – but recounts the conversations he had with the country’s inhabitants, talks candidly about his encounters with officialdom, and records his musings about a land wholly unlike any other he has ever visited – one that inspires fascination and fear in equal measure.
Written with Palin’s trademark warmth and wit, and illustrated with beautiful colour photographs throughout, the journal offers a rare insight into the North Korea behind the headlines.
