Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
Cover of the English-language paperback edition
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| Author | Guy Delisle |
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| Cover artist | Guy Delisle |
| Language | French |
| Genre | Graphic novel, memoir |
| Publisher | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Media type | Print (hardcover, paperback) |
| Pages | 176 p. |
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea is a black-and-white graphic novel by the Canadian Québécois author Guy Delisle, published in 2004.
Pyongyang documents Delisle's experiences in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, where he stayed for two months. Acting as the liaison between a French animation producing company (Protécréa working for TF1) and the SEK Studio (Scientific Educational Korea) company, he struggles with the difficulties of outsourcing and the bureaucracy of the totalitarian closed state.
The book has 176 pages, two of them drawn by a French colleague ("Fabrice").
It was drawn in Ethiopia, where Delisle's wife was working for Médecins Sans Frontières.
Delisle does not expect to return to North Korea, writing: "I don't think I would be welcome there anymore."
Delisle arrives in Pyongyang, bringing, in addition to the items that he was authorized to bring into the country, a copy of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, that he judged appropriate for a totalitarian state, CDs of Aphex Twin, and presents like Gitanes cigarettes and Hennessy cognac.
Delisle encounters former colleagues working at SEK Studio on an adaptation of the Corto Maltese comics. He also meets foreign diplomats, NGO workers in the World Food Programme and businessmen, such as French engineers installing an HDTV transmitter.
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