Searching for the North Korean Enclave in Japan 🇰🇵

Searching for the North Korean Enclave in Japan 🇰🇵

Greetings friends and welcome to the dimly lit alleys of Osaga. Today we’re going to be exploring Zanichi, North Korea Town here in Osaka. It’s where a lot of Koreans actually moved when Japan was was occupying Korea and they’ve just stayed here and they’ve maintained their culture. So we have all kinds of kimchi. We have people speaking Korean. Okay, not a good Oh, she didn’t want to be filmed. Okay, great. Great start. And we’re joined by everyone’s favorite Russian fugitive. It’s Tommy Sbatical. Don’t think about me like that. Reminds me of presents. [Applause] No, no, no. [Laughter] I’m full. What is that? Wow. Wow. Very friendly. Korea. Oh, nice. [Laughter] [Laughter] Let’s let’s patronize. I’ll get some of this stuff. Is it spicy? No. All right. Bye. All right. Byebye. Byebye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Thank you. All right, let’s get one of these little bunny butts. I fully caved. I’m making brain dead Japan content. Buying capsules. Little cat butt. Feels kind. It’s not the feel that you would expect. I kind of get the feeling you could never mind. Bro, it looks like the hills have eyes. Babies, I don’t really feel comfortable that they gave it eye makeup and lipstick, too. Like, the sexualization of children is very odd in this culture. Baby, oh, dude, this is very Korean style. Okay. All right. Yeah, let’s do it. Oh, wow. They’re breading the the fish. Have you been? Never been there. It’s really nice though. I like her though. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. South Korea, but husband husband is South Korea. So they call themselves Zichi even though they’re not. [Applause] Okay. Good skin. Healthy healthy. Healthy skin. Back. I feel like that was a good Japanese way of saying, “Wow, you’re like my mother.” Yeah. He’s on a diet. The Russian diet. Russian prison. No, but he was in prison. America. America. New York City. New York City. New Atlanta. Oh yeah. Atlanta. Atlanta. Oh god. Oh god. Just fishing for compliments. some of this. Thank you. Thank you. Amazing. The market continues. I thought we were out of it, but there’s more dingy alleyways to go down, more kimchi to purchase, more nice ladies to talk to. Hello. Okay. All right. Wow. Yes. Catacombs. We found them, Thomas. We have our little Korean foods here. Beautiful Korean uh noodles. Make her BB bop bam bop. Let’s go travel. Born to be free. Let’s go travel. Born to be free. Wow. Sounds like the intro to a Yesterday video. Is this a church, right? Oh my god. The Koreans have infiltrated and brought their Christianity here. They’ve colonized it, guys. Is it a church? Yeah, it looks like it. The There it is. There’s a sign for the church. It’s got the Korean lettering at the top. Beautiful. Tommy, how does it feel looking at a Japanese police station after being in a prison? I mean, they’re adorable. I take Japanese prison over Soviet prison any day. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, bro. Ah, lovely whale shop. You can get whale sashimi here. Too bad it’s not open. I love me some whale. We have a traditional Disney character. We have some random kawaii Disney character dressed up in a million different Korean little outfits. The cultural appropriation in Japan. It’s happening. They are the colonizers, guys. Looks like you can get dressed up like uh in K fashion apparently. Subculture. Who knew? They wear burkas in Korea. Who know? K-pop. Oh, you have K-pop in here? Oh, K-pop. Oh, of course you do. Oh my god. Yeah, they have all the idols. You get your idol magnets, selfies. Man, hopefully one day I get to be the level of fame where people are buying magnets with my selfie on it. Look at the beautiful skin care of of Gino. You know him, you love him. It’s Gino and Mark. The sex appeal Mark with the big old chain. [Music] Beautiful. [Laughter] Yeah. The cultural ties between the two countries go back before the Korean War. It was actually when Korea was a Japanese colony. Some people from Korea were sent over here to work in Japan in Osaka. this industrial hub and they’ve just stayed over here and they’ve maintained their culture even to this day with the K-pop. They have the Korean language everywhere. They have Korean food and stuff like that. It’s crazy. It’s like feel like in America when you’re an immigrant and you go to a place, it’s like after the third generation, your culture is pretty much gone. But out here it’s it’s still fully intact. It’s actually really cool to see them uphold their cultural ties to this day. So when the Korean War happened and North Korea split with South Korea, there was a huge fracture in the Korean community in Japan. We had Koreans that sympathized with the North and Koreans that sympathized with the South and actually created a huge division in the culture. It’s called Chong Bion that like funds North Korean initiatives and supports the people over here that empathize with North Korea. Unfortunately, we haven’t been able to find anything about this uh organization over here yet, but we’re not going to give up hope just yet. We’re going to try to find some North Koreans, guys. It’s a Korean pastry filled with ham, I think. Okay. Okay. New York. Famous. Famous. Be careful. He’s He’s a spy. spy. He’s a spy. [Laughter] All right. Well, that was a lovely little encounter. I didn’t expect to get that heartwarming message from the lovely people of Osaka. They’re all in this together. They’re all in Nihon together. Once you cross that border, you’re Japanese. So, [Music] okay. Said you’re a liar. Okay. Okay. Okay. Uhoh. Okay. All right. All right. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. All right. All right. Okay. Oh god. Okay. All right. All right. Well, that’s going to be it from the Zanichi town in Japan with Mr. Sbatical. So, good luck. Hoping I’ll see you on the news. Right. Right. Right. Yeah. You know, see you in Afghanistan. Have a good day, Maya. Let’s go, baby. 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