We Traveled to Korea to Interview Psy, It Turns out There Are Two Koreas and We Are in a Lot of Trouble

We haven’t heard new music from Korean pop sensation PSY in two years and we wanted to see what he was up to. I convinced the editors at The Hard Times to send me and a camera crew to interview the musician. They agreed and I immediately bought a ticket to the capital, Pyongyang.

Guys, did you know there is a NORTH and a SOUTH Korea?! You’d think people would talk more about that. Well imagine my embarrassment when I found that out, my face was so red.

We landed in Pyongyang and started filming B-Roll, before we knew it, we were surrounded by guys with guns telling us to get on the ground. At first I thought that Korea was just different than what they depicted in K-Pop videos. That’s when we found out we were in the wrong Korea. The really wrong one. Our equipment was seized, we were thrown in prison, and we are really not sure what is about to happen to us.

We did meet a nice man named Yi in our prison cell that spoke a little English. It turns out THIS Korea is ruled by an eccentric dictator lady named Kim and she isn’t very fond of Westerners. I can’t believe media outlets are just ignoring this. PSY should do a concert to promote awareness about the situation here.

I asked Yi if he had heard of PSY but he had not. Seems like North Koreans kinda do their own thing. I taught him the Gungam Style dance, which passed some time. I also explained the plot of Parasite to Yi but he didn’t seem to get it.

So instead of interviewing PSY, we are being interviewed by military folk who insist that we are American spies. They did something on my camera guy called ‘waterboarding’ and he did not like it at all. This place is awful, no wonder no one knows about it.

We really hope to meet PSY after our 5 years in a labor camp. Or maybe he can put in a good word for us with that Kim lady.