In the article “The Great Pleasure Project” on SkiMag, Tim Neville writes about his trip to North Korea for its newly opened ski resort. Neville is taking the risky, yet a worthwhile journey into the land of mystery covered in media stereotypes. Utilizing contrast and contradiction, the author writes about nothing that could be called pleasurable and so little about skiing to defy what the readers will be expecting. Seeing the article, SkiMag followers and fans of travel writing are looking forward to reading an exciting story about skiing in an extravagant place. But Neville does the unexpected and compares the experience of skiing, an exhilarating activity, with a trip to North Korea, a country under a dictatorship of one man, to criticize
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For example, “Stunning Photos Reveal What Childhood in North Korea’s Like” by Chris Weller from May of 2017, on Business Insider. The writer starts off with “Childhood is a precious time in human life, so it can be jarring to see kids working in fields or blindly supporting dictators. But if you're one of the 5.3 million children under the age of 14 in North Korea, that's the reality of growing up,” and later on he even says “The children aren't old enough to understand the propaganda they're being fed or know how deplorable their living conditions are. It only lasts a short while, but childhood may be the time when North Koreans have the most in common with the rest of the world.” Another post is “20 Things I Have Learned While I Was in North Korea” by Tim Urban on Huffington Post from 2013. Tim Urban, an American, says “I was only in North Korea for five days, but that was more than enough to make it clear that North Korea is every bit as weird as I always thought it was,” then briefly describes the country as “If you merged the Soviet Union under Stalin with an ancient Chinese Empire, mixed in The Truman Show and then made the whole thing Holocaust-esque, you have modern day North Korea.” Articles such as these show the dark, strange and dangerous North Korea the audience has come to know. Moreover, according to a survey done by Pew Research Center in spring of 2017, 78% of all the Americans have a “very unfavorable opinion” about North Korea. Also in another survey from January, North Korea is topping ISIS and cyberattacks in terms of threat to the American citizens. All of the propaganda about North Korea is being confirmed by the persona in his travels but the writer himself doesn’t approve of any of it and is criticizing the extreme cases of North Korea’s
For example, “Stunning Photos Reveal What Childhood in North Korea’s Like” by Chris Weller from May of 2017, on Business Insider. The writer starts off with “Childhood is a precious time in human life, so it can be jarring to see kids working in fields or blindly supporting dictators. But if you're one of the 5.3 million children under the age of 14 in North Korea, that's the reality of growing up,” and later on he even says “The children aren't old enough to understand the propaganda they're being fed or know how deplorable their living conditions are. It only lasts a short while, but childhood may be the time when North Koreans have the most in common with the rest of the world.” Another post is “20 Things I Have Learned While I Was in North Korea” by Tim Urban on Huffington Post from 2013. Tim Urban, an American, says “I was only in North Korea for five days, but that was more than enough to make it clear that North Korea is every bit as weird as I always thought it was,” then briefly describes the country as “If you merged the Soviet Union under Stalin with an ancient Chinese Empire, mixed in The Truman Show and then made the whole thing Holocaust-esque, you have modern day North Korea.” Articles such as these show the dark, strange and dangerous North Korea the audience has come to know. Moreover, according to a survey done by Pew Research Center in spring of 2017, 78% of all the Americans have a “very unfavorable opinion” about North Korea. Also in another survey from January, North Korea is topping ISIS and cyberattacks in terms of threat to the American citizens. All of the propaganda about North Korea is being confirmed by the persona in his travels but the writer himself doesn’t approve of any of it and is criticizing the extreme cases of North Korea’s