Latest Issue. Past Issues. This article is from the archive of our partner. Koryo Tours, a Chinese company that brings foreigners into North Korea, is ready to capitalize on a male population eager to visit the region: self-professed pickup artists.
Can you "hook up with a local girl" on your tour? The short answer is no, of course not. But that won't stop PUAs from trying β getting one's "NK flag" having sex with a North Korean woman is considered to be the highest level of accomplishment in the "game.
PUAs are willing to spend lots of money on what they call "love tourism. Western women, PUAs lament, have often discovered their own independence and therefore are more impervious to game. If you don't get that NK flag while you're in the country, Koryo Tours' Simon Cockerell wants you to know that you're not alone.
North Korean women are the ultimate worthy challenge for PUAs because they've been both sheltered from Western influence and are also unavailable. As Cockerell explains,. North Korea places great pride in its national homogeneity and is a deeply conservative culture, thus hooking up with a visiting foreigner would be something a bit shameful and also something quite out of character for almost all the women there the men too, despite their bouts of braggadocio and masculine preening regarding their pick-up skills , not to mention somewhat unprofessional for people in the service industry.
Koryo Tours isn't the first to infiltrate the PUA market. Joseph Ferris, who leads tours in North Korea with Young Pioneer Tours, joined one of the darkest corners of the internet last year to make his pitch β the Roosh V forum. Roosh has published a series of love travel guides , with creative titles like Bang Colombia and Don't Bang Denmark. Yeah, that's me in a couple of those photos with the girl β yes, we brought Neil Strauss in on one of my trips.
