Interesting! I am glad you chose to explore this Korean enclave in Northeastern China...Korean language they speak sounds a bit different from that in South Korea. North Korean cold noodle is popular, a stall run by a North Korean couple in Seoul was closed when I was there....too bad never tried it.
@@chopsticksandtrains yeah, I really enjoyed my trip to South Korea, the vibe was different and the leaves of the trees in the streets were so colourful, mostly yellow and red in colour, not sure if there are maple trees. The cab driver told me his ancestors came from China 500 years ago and his family name is different from typical Korean family names, however he looked and behaved no different from other Koreans, I think there have been hundreds of thousands of Chinese migrated to Korea over the past 2000 years, many of them came from Shandong province, which explains why there are so many Koreans visiting and living in Qingdao, however nobody is talking about this in Korea, it is a taboo to openly admit / discuss that some percentage of Koreans have Han Chinese ancestry. Some foreign TH-camrs visited a small town called Dandong, where they could see North Korea across the river. I have never been to northeastern China before, thanks to your videos, I will visit Yanji and Harbin next time I visit China.😂
I like the Dongbei area in general, there's a very interesting environment in Dongbei that you don't get in other Cities For example the Korean feeling in Yanbian and the Japanese feeling in Dalian and Shenyang (Just a disclaimer! I've never been in any of those cities but I've watched videos about those cities and I liked them, Awesome video)
Good to see your video as my wife and I were in Yanji a few days ago and your experience of the city was similar to ours. We liked the place very much. The food (Korean) was great, the people were friendly, the shops and even the toilets were really clean and the overall atmosphere of the city we really enjoyed. I was impressed by the quality of the baked goods. The bakeries that we visited and the pastries that we ate were all of very good quality - like you would get in Japan, Korea, and in France. The West Market was excellent, as was the morning market by the river. Our hike up the mountain was also well worth it. We will definitely go back to Yanji again and like you, the next time we will explore some of the smaller towns and villages in the region. My wife and I really enjoyed the blend of Korean and Han culture and the overall relative sophistication that this blended culture has produced.
Thanks for the awesome comment! Glad you had a good trip! You might also enjoy my video about Tumen, which is also part of the Yanbian Autonomous zone, just like Yanji City. Tumen City is a border city - just across the river from North Korea and has a large ethnic Korean population. A lesser known place with very few tourists.
@@chopsticksandtrains my wife and I originally planned to visit Tumen or Hunchun during our stay in Yanji but ended up only looking around Yanji and leaving Tumen / Hunchun til the next time we head 'up north'.
Good stuff! I've been studying Chinese for almost six years now. I've been doing Japanese for almost four years and I'm just starting to dip my feet into Korean. I thought learning more about this region of China would be interesting. You did a great job of providing your insights. 谢谢你的内容! 太棒了!
Thank you! Glad you found me! That's super cool (regarding your language studies). I try to incorporate some language elements into my videos, so I'm glad that you enjoy that aspect as well! 你在美国哪个州？住在美国但是还能把中文学好 ~ 真不容易啊！真厉害！加油！
Great video man as someone who lives in korea I definitely agree this feels like Korea and I certainly empathise with you saying you dont follow the trend of other westerners and you prefer to do your own thing. This channel definitely deserves more subscribers
I haven't been back to my hometown since the outbreak of pandemic, it really is a unique area within mainland China. I'm watching this video from Tokyo and thank you so much for recording this great video.
I truly hope to someday visit Yan Ji, I lived in China for many years and that’s one place. I didn’t get to go through or Steah. You are very lucky and blessed to have that wonderful experience. 我的亲戚是在延吉市❤
Good vlog, you seem to have the "explore" spirit that i like when you stated that you didn't like to go to "foreign expats enclave" that much, and stay open to foreign foods and not being picky about them. That is an unmistakable sign of open-mindedness, you know, at least from my own experience, some foods need an acquired taste, over time through experience you will like them. Like you, my right knee kinda don't like me as well, done a lot of running since teenager, so cheers, courageous explorer, may you have a great time anywhere.🤘
Thank you! I appreciate your kind words and support! (And yeah - knee trouble sucks!) I really wish people in China were a little more open-minded about foods.
The weird black long sausage is the glutinous rice pig blood sausage or the Korean called it Soondae 순대 or you go to South Korea sometimes it's written as Sundae. But the South Korean version doesn't have glutinous rice.
Thanks for sharing your travels in Yanji! It looks really fascinating, and the rough looking buildings as well as those stacked businesses have their charm. I’m curious as to how this area compares to South Korea, or if the vibe is just completely different.
It feels like North Korea + China. But recently, the Chinese feel is getting stronger. In the past, the signboard was similar to Korea in terms of the text, but these days it's almost closer to China. In particular, there are too many Chinese characters.
Dude, you do a fantastic job with your videos. I just came across them today. I've been to China six times and have been to several of the locations that you have featured. You have a great way of presenting your material. One thing I would suggest is maybe showing yourself in the videos as well. As far as the one video that you did on marrying a Chinese woman, you were pretty much spot on with much of that, ha ha. Never again! I'm looking forward to watching all of your future videos. Thanks for taking the time to create them. I personally miss China and the culture very much. The people are super fantastic and the food is to die for.
Thank you very much! There are reasons why I don't appear in my videos. Main reason being, I'm too damn ugly, LOL, but the other big reason is because, well - if you know China well and you think about it for a while, you'll have your answer. I genuinely appreciate the good words, means a lot, and look forward to our future interactions here in the comments section! Take care!
I've never seen any of your vids but watching this one now. Not sure if you're Asian or what but qnyway thx for at least putting it out there that this place exists, for those who don't know but you should at least know a thing or two about Koreans & include that knowedge in your video. If you've been to Korea before, surely you leqrned sthg. Helpful would have been to explain how this region came to be what it is today. And 우리 or WOORI, as in the supermarket means WE/US. Not "worry" misspelt.
video frame rate too low and lack of stabilization makes it dizzying, but content wise it is very cool to see korean and chinese cultures and languages side by side in one society like this! very unique part of the world
not all I been to Korea and those chefs are mainly South Koreans their ancestors escaped from NK so thats why cold noodle aka Naengmyeon is widespread there
@@chopsticksandtrains No its false, the chefs who make cold noodles in South Korea come from North Korea. Cold Noodles originate from Pyeongyang, not Yanji.
I was in Yanji a few weeks back and made a short about it. The first time I was there was some 13 years ago because my wife is from there, Chinese korean. Indeed it has in fact changed a lot. There is a whole new area with a korean festive town and museum. There was a large dinasaur find and it has a large museum for it. They are developing the local party for it. Forreigners there are mostly russians. The market you were is huge. I think almost everyone buys there or goes there to the foodcourt.
Some of the people would be able to communicate with you. They'd speak a different dialect, but still should be able to mutually understand. Many Han Chinese don't speak any Korean though.
@@chopsticksandtrains Thank you for providing useful information. It's sad that there aren't many Korean speakers. But it still seems like a charming place to me.😊
Actually there is the 4th Korea in Kazakhstan where a million of Korean farmers were forcefully relocated from Manchuria to Central Asia by Russia 160 years ago when Russia invaded Northeastern China.
@@Seoul_Korea_ They are called Koryo Saram and they are all over Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, southern Russia and many other Central Asian countries, some of them returned to Korea. Many of them can only speak Russian.
May 2023, that was last year, would have loved to give you a tour around the city. I'm quiet relieved to see that none of the South Koreans have viewed your videos yet or has yet to leave any nasty comments. I was kinda scared to scroll down to the comment section to see bunch of ugly comments criticizing you for call our people "Korean." I was actually quiet surprised to find some silly Chinese comments, seems Asians just don't understand the difference from nationality and ethnicity. I hope you had a great time and enjoyed our version of the Korean culture. I hope you can visit again and maybe even take you around for some good food. I love your videos and hope you have a good one.
For other destinations it is a good idea to go visit Tumen at the Tumen river. The iron curtain between China and the DPRK is quite a spectacle. A couple of Years ago you would still get arrested there for filming the border patrols. But there also is a pleasure cruise on this tiny river. Very strange.
Yeah, Tumen is awesome! I made a travel vlog from there - you can find it on my channel! And that riverboat you mentioned, I took the cruise (and it was ONLY me, literally).
Even the Korean have Aussie and Kiwi passport no need apply China visa can fly from Incheon airport to Yanji no need China visa can used Aussie and Kiwi passport to enter Yanji China for 15 days visa free.
Me being Chinese Korean living in this region, proper Korean that we learn in school we say 감사합니다, but we do have a shorter dialect version which is 감사함다, we kinda shorten the 합니다. Pretty much same with all the other 합니다. For example, 맛있습니다 -> 맛있음다, 좋습니다 -> 좋슴다. Hope that helped.
Report and question: Report - Before COVID, PRC had many Korean tourists. In order to accommodate these tourists all over China, the bilingual Koreans from Yanbian were hired all over China, so many (according to the report) that Yanbian was at risk of losing its autonomous status for lack of population. Question - ¿Are the Koreans who left Yanbian returning?
From your travels would you say Yanji or Jilin Province as a whole is much better than other parts of China in terms of cleanliness, food quality and sanitation, pollution, traffic, politeness etc? It certainly seems from your videos this is a far cry from your typical city in China.
Not Jilin Province as a whole, but certainly Yanbian Autonomous Zone (even though it's not autonomous at all). The ethnic Korean influence there definitely brings some very nice things/aspects/attributes. Lots more travels on the way! Stay tuned friend!
So you are saying that certain race tends to be more civilized than the others? I tend to think that being civilized or clean and other nice things inhuman perception has a lot to do with the standard of living and education rather than certain race. Back in the day when South Korea was still a poverty stricken country, the Han river is not exactly clean. EU, for example, was very dirty pre industry revolution, open sewer and human feces that caused black plague ran rampant among the lower class communities.
@@handaxia1251 Also, just so you know, according to many local Han people I spoke with in Yanji, the area is still considered remote and underdeveloped compared to many other cities in China. Yet - it's still quite clean and the people were very polite and friendly. So, it's not necessarily an 'economics' issues as you are insisting.
On our trip to Yanji last week, my wife and I could not get over how many places around the city, the toilets particularly were so clean. One restaurant we went into had an incredibly clean toilet - no smell at all! We noticed that in many of the large shopping buildings, staff were constantly cleaning the floors and other surfaces. Yanji is the only place in China, so far where we were happy to rest our bare hands on escalator handrails!
Interesting to hear. I will be looking for the opportunity to travel through Mexico and maybe even touch upon a couple South American countries sometime within the next few years.
WRONG to say it is a "Korean enclave in China" because Yanbian(where Yanji is) is politically a SOVEREIGN PART of China, not that of north or south Korea.. An enclave territory of a country would entail that territory to be a possession of that country. Pls understand the words you used correctly.
@@chopsticksandtrains Saying "incorrect" without giving any explanation let alone evidence does NOT make it correct. Look up the definition for 'enclave' and google Yanbian will prove your calling Yanbian a Korean enclave is clearly incorrect. Get yourself better educated.
@@tweedy4sgenclave only means being surrounded by different culturally/ethnically different people = the Chinese. it’s China’s land, but it’s predominantly Korean demographically, just like how other ethnic minorities in china dominate other areas. You could even say chinatowns in western cities are Chinese enclaves. it doesn’t mean the land isn’t the sovereign territory of those western countries
Again, pls look up the definition of enclave. Chinatowns are not national enclaves but ethnic enclave which meant an altogether different thing. What the video's title is stating is national enclave.
I called it the 'hidden Korean enclave'. I didn't say South Korean or North Korean. That said, I have traveled through South Korea and culturally, the ethnic Koreans in Yanji definitely have some noticeable cultural similiarities to South Koreans. I've never traveled to North Korea, so I can't speak on that.
@@MyFaceTime Yes, some of the people I met had lived in or at least visited Japan in the past. But they definitely hang on to their Korean culture. They speak a Korean dialent. They eat Korean food. They follow Korean pop culture. HUGE Korean influence in their daily lives - and understandable so, because they are in fact ETHNICALLY KOREAN.
I've been in China 10 years. Trust me, I get my fair share of Chinese food. Korea has fairly good pizza, so I was curious as to how this Korean autonomous region's pizza would be. Sometimes I get tired of eating Chinese food every day - want to switch it up and get some variety.
I'd like to share my personal opinion as a 중국조선족 Korean-Chinese(grew up in internationalized Han Chinese school). In Eastern Asian world, I am in favor of Japanese, they are mostly polite and well-behaved, leaving me quite nice impression with friendly attitude when I communicate with them. Also I like North Koreans, they are like brave Spartans that dare to say NO to the mad US without any compromises. I like Chinese people of Han(汉族人) cuz they tend to be inclusive and friendly to the outlanders wherever I stay or live in China, their wisdom of the middle course culture impresses me deeply. But I don't have much good feeling on both of South Koreans and Korean-Chinese from Yanbian(민족학교에서다닌 조선족분들이), they make me feel like somehow radical and arrogant, narcissism and brutual, impolite full of nonsense and ignorant thoughts in such eastern Asian world, 연변조선족 and 한국인 are like both same type of "special humans" to me. Therefore, 한국인=연변조선족, 연변조선족=한국인, and they are both the ones who are fond of fighting and harming against each other carrying their own madness, leaving me large dissapointment which is a great disaster for the current human civilization, so lame... That is why I tend to choose to keep in distance from those 2 type of mad people you know, there are all kinds of people in this world now after all so better be aware of it.
Interesting comment. I found the people in Yanbian to be very friendly, but then again, I was only there for a short time and have very limited experience. Thanks for sharing your take.
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很喜欢这种客观辩证的视频与解说，中国不止有上海或深圳这种光鲜亮丽的城市，尽管某些地方并不发达，但也有他们各自的文化与特色。延吉是一个面积不算太大的城市，景点也不是很多，但当地的美食确实值得一试
谢谢！
My mom is from yanji and when I showed her this video she said this brings her nostalgia
I’m glad to hear that! I’ll visit again and make a better video next time.
Interesting! I am glad you chose to explore this Korean enclave in Northeastern China...Korean language they speak sounds a bit different from that in South Korea. North Korean cold noodle is popular, a stall run by a North Korean couple in Seoul was closed when I was there....too bad never tried it.
Hey there! Thanks for watching and commenting! So you spent some time in South Korea 'ay? Very cool!
@@chopsticksandtrains yeah, I really enjoyed my trip to South Korea, the vibe was different and the leaves of the trees in the streets were so colourful, mostly yellow and red in colour, not sure if there are maple trees. The cab driver told me his ancestors came from China 500 years ago and his family name is different from typical Korean family names, however he looked and behaved no different from other Koreans, I think there have been hundreds of thousands of Chinese migrated to Korea over the past 2000 years, many of them came from Shandong province, which explains why there are so many Koreans visiting and living in Qingdao, however nobody is talking about this in Korea, it is a taboo to openly admit / discuss that some percentage of Koreans have Han Chinese ancestry. Some foreign TH-camrs visited a small town called Dandong, where they could see North Korea across the river. I have never been to northeastern China before, thanks to your videos, I will visit Yanji and Harbin next time I visit China.😂
I like the Dongbei area in general, there's a very interesting environment in Dongbei that you don't get in other Cities For example the Korean feeling in Yanbian and the Japanese feeling in Dalian and Shenyang
(Just a disclaimer! I've never been in any of those cities but I've watched videos about those cities and I liked them, Awesome video)
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Good to see your video as my wife and I were in Yanji a few days ago and your experience of the city was similar to ours. We liked the place very much. The food (Korean) was great, the people were friendly, the shops and even the toilets were really clean and the overall atmosphere of the city we really enjoyed. I was impressed by the quality of the baked goods. The bakeries that we visited and the pastries that we ate were all of very good quality - like you would get in Japan, Korea, and in France. The West Market was excellent, as was the morning market by the river. Our hike up the mountain was also well worth it. We will definitely go back to Yanji again and like you, the next time we will explore some of the smaller towns and villages in the region. My wife and I really enjoyed the blend of Korean and Han culture and the overall relative sophistication that this blended culture has produced.
Thanks for the awesome comment! Glad you had a good trip! You might also enjoy my video about Tumen, which is also part of the Yanbian Autonomous zone, just like Yanji City. Tumen City is a border city - just across the river from North Korea and has a large ethnic Korean population. A lesser known place with very few tourists.
@@chopsticksandtrains my wife and I originally planned to visit Tumen or Hunchun during our stay in Yanji but ended up only looking around Yanji and leaving Tumen / Hunchun til the next time we head 'up north'.
Thank you for visiting Yanji, and come visit again next time!
Good stuff! I've been studying Chinese for almost six years now. I've been doing Japanese for almost four years and I'm just starting to dip my feet into Korean. I thought learning more about this region of China would be interesting. You did a great job of providing your insights. 谢谢你的内容! 太棒了!
Thank you! Glad you found me! That's super cool (regarding your language studies). I try to incorporate some language elements into my videos, so I'm glad that you enjoy that aspect as well! 你在美国哪个州？住在美国但是还能把中文学好 ~ 真不容易啊！真厉害！加油！
@@chopsticksandtrains 谢谢你的支持! 我是加州人!
Yeah, always fun to connect with people who have the same language interests as me!
@MaxineWashington good stuff! Thanks for sharing! I agree! Really helps to have Chinese as the foundation to start with!
Great video man as someone who lives in korea I definitely agree this feels like Korea and I certainly empathise with you saying you dont follow the trend of other westerners and you prefer to do your own thing. This channel definitely deserves more subscribers
Thank you sir! I definitely appreciate the good words! 🙏🏼
That there my friend, is my hometown right there!! SHOUT OUT to Yanbian
I haven't been back to my hometown since the outbreak of pandemic, it really is a unique area within mainland China. I'm watching this video from Tokyo and thank you so much for recording this great video.
Thanks for watching and commenting! Hope you are enjoying Japan! I can't wait to visit Japan again - such a great place!
I truly hope to someday visit Yan Ji, I lived in China for many years and that’s one place. I didn’t get to go through or Steah. You are very lucky and blessed to have that wonderful experience. 我的亲戚是在延吉市❤
Oh, interesting! I'm glad you found this video. Thanks for watching/commenting. :)
Good vlog, you seem to have the "explore" spirit that i like when you stated that you didn't like to go to "foreign expats enclave" that much, and stay open to foreign foods and not being picky about them. That is an unmistakable sign of open-mindedness, you know, at least from my own experience, some foods need an acquired taste, over time through experience you will like them. Like you, my right knee kinda don't like me as well, done a lot of running since teenager, so cheers, courageous explorer, may you have a great time anywhere.🤘
Thank you! I appreciate your kind words and support! (And yeah - knee trouble sucks!) I really wish people in China were a little more open-minded about foods.
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NICE VIDEO 📹of YANJI CITY.
It doesn't look like a Remote Border Town at all! It looks very developed and self-contained.
Thanks for watching Joyce!
The weird black long sausage is the glutinous rice pig blood sausage or the Korean called it Soondae 순대 or you go to South Korea sometimes it's written as Sundae. But the South Korean version doesn't have glutinous rice.
Thanks for the info!
This is my hometown. I love my hometown.
Yes, Yanji is a great place! Thanks for watching/commenting! 新年快乐
Thanks for sharing your travels in Yanji! It looks really fascinating, and the rough looking buildings as well as those stacked businesses have their charm. I’m curious as to how this area compares to South Korea, or if the vibe is just completely different.
Glad you enjoyed it! The vibe there is sorta like a good blend of Chinese and Korean culture mixed...
It feels like North Korea + China. But recently, the Chinese feel is getting stronger. In the past, the signboard was similar to Korea in terms of the text, but these days it's almost closer to China. In particular, there are too many Chinese characters.
Ouw dam my hometown, nice to see it finally become a tourist attraction
Dude, you do a fantastic job with your videos. I just came across them today. I've been to China six times and have been to several of the locations that you have featured. You have a great way of presenting your material. One thing I would suggest is maybe showing yourself in the videos as well. As far as the one video that you did on marrying a Chinese woman, you were pretty much spot on with much of that, ha ha. Never again!
I'm looking forward to watching all of your future videos. Thanks for taking the time to create them. I personally miss China and the culture very much. The people are super fantastic and the food is to die for.
Thank you very much! There are reasons why I don't appear in my videos. Main reason being, I'm too damn ugly, LOL, but the other big reason is because, well - if you know China well and you think about it for a while, you'll have your answer. I genuinely appreciate the good words, means a lot, and look forward to our future interactions here in the comments section! Take care!
my friend, your camera moves too much, I am getting dizzy 😵💫😵💫
otherwise great video!
I've never seen any of your vids but watching this one now. Not sure if you're Asian or what but qnyway thx for at least putting it out there that this place exists, for those who don't know but you should at least know a thing or two about Koreans & include that knowedge in your video. If you've been to Korea before, surely you leqrned sthg. Helpful would have been to explain how this region came to be what it is today.
And 우리 or WOORI, as in the supermarket means WE/US. Not "worry" misspelt.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
These people are lucky they ended up part of China (though not as good as South Korea) than in North Korea.
video frame rate too low and lack of stabilization makes it dizzying, but content wise it is very cool to see korean and chinese cultures and languages side by side in one society like this! very unique part of the world
It looks like northern part of china is cleaner and tidier than southern part.
Cold noodles do not come from South Korea, but from North Korea. The chefs who make cold noodles in South Korea are basically from Yanbian, China.
True! Thanks for watching, Bert!
not all I been to Korea and those chefs are mainly South Koreans
their ancestors escaped from NK so thats why cold noodle aka Naengmyeon is widespread there
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연변냉면이 더 맛있습니다.@@mochalatte04
@@chopsticksandtrains No its false, the chefs who make cold noodles in South Korea come from North Korea. Cold Noodles originate from Pyeongyang, not Yanji.
"I think I made her day."
...interesting comment!
I was in Yanji a few weeks back and made a short about it. The first time I was there was some 13 years ago because my wife is from there, Chinese korean. Indeed it has in fact changed a lot. There is a whole new area with a korean festive town and museum. There was a large dinasaur find and it has a large museum for it. They are developing the local party for it. Forreigners there are mostly russians. The market you were is huge. I think almost everyone buys there or goes there to the foodcourt.
Oh that's very cool! I'll go check out your video! Thanks for the great comment!
a beautiful city
Indeed!
I live in NYC, I left the town more than 10years. I am thinking about Yanji food alot!
Thanks for watching!
I'm South Korean and I have interest in Yanbian. I would like to visit there but I'm not sure it's possible to communicate in Korean there.
Some of the people would be able to communicate with you. They'd speak a different dialect, but still should be able to mutually understand. Many Han Chinese don't speak any Korean though.
@@chopsticksandtrains Thank you for providing useful information. It's sad that there aren't many Korean speakers. But it still seems like a charming place to me.😊
Gret, thanks.
Could you recommend me some places to visit ? I want to go to the border between China and North Korea in 图们. What other places are worth to visit?
Yanbian is 3rd Korea in China. South Korea, North Korea, Yanbian Korea😊
Thanks for watching!
Actually there is the 4th Korea in Kazakhstan where a million of Korean farmers were forcefully relocated from Manchuria to Central Asia by Russia 160 years ago when Russia invaded Northeastern China.
@@icebaby6714 what is the name of the area in Kazakhstan?
@@Seoul_Korea_ They are called Koryo Saram and they are all over Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, southern Russia and many other Central Asian countries, some of them returned to Korea. Many of them can only speak Russian.
@HoldYourToesssss 괜찮습니다. 대만을 제2의 중국, 홍콩을 제3의 중국이라고도 하니까요
May 2023, that was last year, would have loved to give you a tour around the city. I'm quiet relieved to see that none of the South Koreans have viewed your videos yet or has yet to leave any nasty comments. I was kinda scared to scroll down to the comment section to see bunch of ugly comments criticizing you for call our people "Korean." I was actually quiet surprised to find some silly Chinese comments, seems Asians just don't understand the difference from nationality and ethnicity. I hope you had a great time and enjoyed our version of the Korean culture. I hope you can visit again and maybe even take you around for some good food. I love your videos and hope you have a good one.
Thank you for this very nice comment! Made me smile :)
7:14 Have you tried Durian Pizza
I've had many opportunities to try it, but I simply choose not to. :p
may I know what phone did you use to shoot this video? the EIS seems a bit bad, its jittering
Yes, I forgot my camera that day so I had to use my phone. Sorry for the quality issues.
It's similar to Seoul city 😊
For other destinations it is a good idea to go visit Tumen at the Tumen river. The iron curtain between China and the DPRK is quite a spectacle. A couple of Years ago you would still get arrested there for filming the border patrols. But there also is a pleasure cruise on this tiny river. Very strange.
Yeah, Tumen is awesome! I made a travel vlog from there - you can find it on my channel! And that riverboat you mentioned, I took the cruise (and it was ONLY me, literally).
Looks like a small town in South Korea back in the 90s.
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중국인커플은 제주도에 오자마자 멋진행동을 보여주는데...😂😂
I can eat cool noodles maximum once a year.
아무리 중국이라지만 16:37 같은 비주얼을 가진 걸 김치라고 부르거나 사람이 먹는 건 안 될 일입니다.
Even the Korean have Aussie and Kiwi passport no need apply China visa can fly from Incheon airport to Yanji no need China visa can used Aussie and Kiwi passport to enter Yanji China for 15 days visa free.
Sweet corn on pizza is a korean spin on pizza
Not a fan of corn on pizza 👎🏻
What's 고맙습니다 in 함경사투리??
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Me being Chinese Korean living in this region, proper Korean that we learn in school we say 감사합니다, but we do have a shorter dialect version which is 감사함다, we kinda shorten the 합니다. Pretty much same with all the other 합니다. For example, 맛있습니다 -> 맛있음다, 좋습니다 -> 좋슴다. Hope that helped.
谢谢你能来我的故乡延吉！我们朝鲜族人很和善友好，绝对不像韩国宣传的那样。希望你有时间再来玩！
我年轻时，作为留学生在延吉待过一段时间。我曾在延边大学主修汉文辅修朝文。延吉市民对外国人又友善又热情。我怀念我的母校延边大学。
哦，你也是朝鲜族啊？我一定会再去延吉，下次会顺便去一趟珲春。中秋节快乐！
你的母校门口现在变成网红。。。每天都有很多人在延吉打卡最多的就是正门的网红墙。你是日本人吗？ 有一段时间延吉好像也有不少日本人来玩和学习。@@お節介じい
是 我就土生土长的延吉人。延吉看来留给你不错的印象，希望不要给你什么不好的回忆。珲春可能要比延吉冷清许多，景点也就 防川看三国边界。城市还是很干净的。看建筑物你可能觉得有点像东欧吧。延边欢迎你！@@chopsticksandtrains
Could you elaborate more, about what points that South Korean advertise about Korean Chinese or North Korean?
Just curiosity, nothing more..
so crazy
How so?
Report and question: Report - Before COVID, PRC had many Korean tourists. In order to accommodate these tourists all over China, the bilingual Koreans from Yanbian were hired all over China, so many (according to the report) that Yanbian was at risk of losing its autonomous status for lack of population. Question - ¿Are the Koreans who left Yanbian returning?
@HoldYourToesssss 감사합니다
From your travels would you say Yanji or Jilin Province as a whole is much better than other parts of China in terms of cleanliness, food quality and sanitation, pollution, traffic, politeness etc? It certainly seems from your videos this is a far cry from your typical city in China.
Not Jilin Province as a whole, but certainly Yanbian Autonomous Zone (even though it's not autonomous at all). The ethnic Korean influence there definitely brings some very nice things/aspects/attributes. Lots more travels on the way! Stay tuned friend!
So you are saying that certain race tends to be more civilized than the others?
I tend to think that being civilized or clean and other nice things inhuman perception has a lot to do with the standard of living and education rather than certain race. Back in the day when South Korea was still a poverty stricken country, the Han river is not exactly clean. EU, for example, was very dirty pre industry revolution, open sewer and human feces that caused black plague ran rampant among the lower class communities.
@@handaxia1251 Nope, not saying that at all. I'm just giving my honest impressions of Yanji.
@@handaxia1251 Also, just so you know, according to many local Han people I spoke with in Yanji, the area is still considered remote and underdeveloped compared to many other cities in China. Yet - it's still quite clean and the people were very polite and friendly. So, it's not necessarily an 'economics' issues as you are insisting.
On our trip to Yanji last week, my wife and I could not get over how many places around the city, the toilets particularly were so clean. One restaurant we went into had an incredibly clean toilet - no smell at all! We noticed that in many of the large shopping buildings, staff were constantly cleaning the floors and other surfaces. Yanji is the only place in China, so far where we were happy to rest our bare hands on escalator handrails!
It's amazing how similar China and Mexico are...
Interesting to hear. I will be looking for the opportunity to travel through Mexico and maybe even touch upon a couple South American countries sometime within the next few years.
@@chopsticksandtrains
Your skills will be in HIGH Demand in Latin and South America
How come?
@@rodrigoe.gordillo2617 I go into those details in my book
Not really😅
WRONG to say it is a "Korean enclave in China" because Yanbian(where Yanji is) is politically a SOVEREIGN PART of China, not that of north or south Korea.. An enclave territory of a country would entail that territory to be a possession of that country. Pls understand the words you used correctly.
No, actually you are incorrect. Your understanding of the word 'enclave' is inaccurate. I used it completely correctly and acceptably.
@@chopsticksandtrains Saying "incorrect" without giving any explanation let alone evidence does NOT make it correct. Look up the definition for 'enclave' and google Yanbian will prove your calling Yanbian a Korean enclave is clearly incorrect. Get yourself better educated.
@@tweedy4sgenclave only means being surrounded by different culturally/ethnically different people = the Chinese.
it’s China’s land, but it’s predominantly Korean demographically, just like how other ethnic minorities in china dominate other areas.
You could even say chinatowns in western cities are Chinese enclaves. it doesn’t mean the land isn’t the sovereign territory of those western countries
Again, pls look up the definition of enclave. Chinatowns are not national enclaves but ethnic enclave which meant an altogether different thing. What the video's title is stating is national enclave.
不能叫韩国文化或韩国人吧 这是朝鲜族自治州大部分是朝鲜时代过来的韩国也是从朝鲜分割的不是吗
I called it the 'hidden Korean enclave'. I didn't say South Korean or North Korean. That said, I have traveled through South Korea and culturally, the ethnic Koreans in Yanji definitely have some noticeable cultural similiarities to South Koreans. I've never traveled to North Korea, so I can't speak on that.
绝大部分是日本殖民时代移民的。当时还有个大韩民国临时政府。很少朝鲜时代移民的。
@@MyFaceTime Yes, some of the people I met had lived in or at least visited Japan in the past. But they definitely hang on to their Korean culture. They speak a Korean dialent. They eat Korean food. They follow Korean pop culture. HUGE Korean influence in their daily lives - and understandable so, because they are in fact ETHNICALLY KOREAN.
听说延边住着不少抗日烈士的后裔子孙。可是我觉得他们的对日情绪没有韩国人那么坏。韩国人对于日本抱有国仇家恨。延边人对日本人挺友善的。我是日本人。
Yes, half a century ago, they were all Korean。
부탁인데,너희 중국인들.한국인 코스프레하면서 여행하지마.너희의 행동을 자주 보고있어.😂
你猜延吉有多少朝鲜族人？中国有复杂的文化，56个民族，以及数以百计的分支。
🤏🤏🤏
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너희 중국인들이 하는짓.😦🤭🤭
@@热心网友-c8f난쟁이 나라가 설치지마라
哈哈哈，太好笑了，谁会装臭名昭著的韩国人，喜欢在公共场合脱鞋子还大吵大闹
Dude ,u come to China 🇨🇳 to eat pizza !
I've been in China 10 years. Trust me, I get my fair share of Chinese food. Korea has fairly good pizza, so I was curious as to how this Korean autonomous region's pizza would be. Sometimes I get tired of eating Chinese food every day - want to switch it up and get some variety.
You can call us "Joseonjok", but don't call us "Korean", we are Chinese, not Korean.
Embarrassing be proud of your ethnicity lol😂
@6:48 absolute cutie !! should've gotten her Number
Haha, yeah? Not sure how my gf would have felt about that! LOL But yeah, I do agree, she was definitely a cutie!
@@chopsticksandtrains she gave you the look! you were definitely tempted there haha
I'd like to share my personal opinion as a 중국조선족 Korean-Chinese(grew up in internationalized Han Chinese school). In Eastern Asian world, I am in favor of Japanese, they are mostly polite and well-behaved, leaving me quite nice impression with friendly attitude when I communicate with them. Also I like North Koreans, they are like brave Spartans that dare to say NO to the mad US without any compromises. I like Chinese people of Han(汉族人) cuz they tend to be inclusive and friendly to the outlanders wherever I stay or live in China, their wisdom of the middle course culture impresses me deeply. But I don't have much good feeling on both of South Koreans and Korean-Chinese from Yanbian(민족학교에서다닌 조선족분들이), they make me feel like somehow radical and arrogant, narcissism and brutual, impolite full of nonsense and ignorant thoughts in such eastern Asian world, 연변조선족 and 한국인 are like both same type of "special humans" to me. Therefore, 한국인=연변조선족, 연변조선족=한국인, and they are both the ones who are fond of fighting and harming against each other carrying their own madness, leaving me large dissapointment which is a great disaster for the current human civilization, so lame...
That is why I tend to choose to keep in distance from those 2 type of mad people you know, there are all kinds of people in this world now after all so better be aware of it.
Interesting comment. I found the people in Yanbian to be very friendly, but then again, I was only there for a short time and have very limited experience. Thanks for sharing your take.
누워서 침뱉끼인가 불쌍한 인간 ㅉㅉㅉ
@@해주오씨-z8pSouth Korean lapdog of uncle Sam.
Be careful not to get your kidneys stolen there🤣
Are you talking about the United States or South Korea
@@huangshabaizhan326 neither. I’m talking about your country, China. More specifically, the lawless Yanbian region.
@@woowonton Your eyes must have a problem. In the systemic illegal acquisition of human organs, the United States and South Korea are among the best.
@@woowonton you talking about the United States or South Korea，
poor guy, Your brain was stolen @@woowonton
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