 The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is easily one of the greatest nations on the planet. Of course, very few international students can study in this majestic palace of a country. Did you know that the DPRK's acceptance rate is even lower than Harvard University? Hello, my comrades. Today, the Score Channel is going to show you how to study in North Korea. It might surprise you to learn that there are actually international students in North Korea. I know, it surprised me too. It turns out the majority of them come from allied nations like China, Russia, and even Vietnam who lent their support to the North in the imperialist aggression known as the Korean War. So what do international students study when they visit the glorious Kingdom of North Korea? Well, most people pursue a degree in Korean studies. Naturally, it's a fantastic place to learn Korean since the language has not been altered or tainted by the Western influences and corruption of capitalism. But if you're looking for another kind of degree, the infinite wisdom of the Supreme Leader has given us some other options. For example, you could study at the Faculty of Information Science, the Faculty of Physics, or the Faculty of Mathematics at Kim Il-sung University. Likewise, the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology has also opened its doors to international students. So if you want to get into one of the most exclusive and refined nations on earth, what do you need? Let's talk about the prereqs. The most important prerequisite for entering North Korea is your loyalty to the Korean Workers' Party. The selfless, noble, generous Workers' Party of Korea seeks to benefit all of Korea's citizens equally. They care for you like a brother, but if you were to betray your brother, they might send you to a different kind of educational facility, one where you might have to spend your days learning more practical skills, like how to mine uranium until your fingernails fall off. Needless to say, people like me will never have the opportunity to visit North Korea in person since we are capitalists swine. But the rest of you will not have a problem with that, so go ahead and apply. If you are considered worthy of admission to one of North Korea's prestigious universities, you will then need to overcome the language barrier. So Korean may not be as difficult to learn as Chinese or Japanese, but it's not exactly easy either. Whether you study Korean studies or not, you're going to have to take mandatory courses in Korean when you arrive at a North Korean university, so you should come prepared with a decent level of Korean before you even set foot in the country. Good news is, it's very easy for you to learn Korean in North Korea since you'll be completely immersed in the language. The vast majority of students will speak to you in Korean, as will professors and anyone else that you encounter. So you're sure to pick the language up quickly because you're going to be surrounded by it every day. Now you may be asked to show that you have some Korean skills, so you might want to look into taking the test of proficiency in Korean or the topic. Clearly the language barrier in North Korea is going to be very high, but it's also not impossible to overcome. I would rate the language barrier in North Korea as four irrational missile launches out of five. You know how like if you go into a Ferrari dealership, if you have to ask for the price of the car, you really shouldn't be there. The same is true of North Korea. Price shouldn't matter. Nowhere else on earth will you get this kind of education. So you should be prepared to spend however much it takes. Universities do not post prices on their website, nor have I been able to find any accurate information on tuition no matter how hard I searched. Living expenses are also hard to quantify, but what we do know is that your university will include them in the cost. In fact, you'll be able to stay in modern, brand new residence halls, constructed specifically for international students. These excellent living conditions such as the one here in Kim Il-sung's recently built exchange student facility are just a couple of examples of the marvelous accommodations that await international students in North Korea. One thing that we do know is that it's kind of expensive to get to North Korea in the first place. See, you can't just fly into North Korea. So instead you'll have to fly to China and cross on land, and that trip is expensive. Not only do you need two visas now, but you're gonna need to spend almost $5,000 just to get into China, get to the right location, get picked up, take into Pyongyang, and yeah, it's an expensive trip. But if you've got about $5,000 and you're willing to spend it to get into North Korea, a world of wonder awaits you. So how do you get a visa? Like tuition information, visa information is nebulous. You'll need to check out your local North Korean embassy, and not every nation is blessed to have one of the wise diplomats of North Korea residing in their borders. Here in Peru, however, we are fortunate enough to have an embassy to the DPRK, and so I thought the easiest way to get information would just be to go to their website. There's just one problem. The geniuses of North Korea realize that if they put their information on a website, it could expose national secrets to hackers, especially from disgusting countries like the United States. So their embassies don't have websites, can't get hacked if you don't have a website. So I figured I'd try the phone number. I gave the local embassy a phone call, and this is what happened. They got me again. Obviously these brilliant minds in North Korea were able to tell that I was imperialist swine, and therefore they are pretending like their call could not connect. Oh, North Korea, you guys are so slick. There is one man, though, who I think could help you get into North Korea. His name is Alex Sigley, and he founded a company called Tongletours. Alex studied at Pyongyang University before going to Stanford to get his doctorate, so he clearly knows how the process works, and his Tongletours company has been helping people go to North Korea for one-year study programs to learn Korean. There's just one problem, and that is that right now they're not giving visas to anybody. And that's because North Korea claims to have zero cases of COVID-19, and they would like to keep it that way. Unfortunately, you're not going to be able to go to North Korea right now because that beautiful paradise of a country is only for North Koreans today. Hopefully soon the country will reopen its borders and make it possible for us to yet again visit and get to know the glorious splendor of North Korea. Until that time, you'll just have to subscribe to the score channel to stay tuned for updates to any of our countries that we've covered, and if you have a country that you want us to cover next, you need to leave it in the comments below, and don't forget to check out our Instagram page as well. If you need some help getting into North Korea, Italy, Spain, or any of the other countries that we cover here, all you gotta do is hit us up on Instagram at prepwithscore, and we'd be happy to help you out. That's all I can tell you for how to study in North Korea. Hopefully the information was useful, and if you would love to get to North Korea and see it for yourself, you're gonna have to hit up prepwithscore.com because we can help you get your visa and get admitted. Seriously, I'm not gonna lie. If anyone actually really wants to do this, I will take them up on this, like Pro Bono. It'll be free. It'll be a free project. I really will. I will try to get somebody into North Korea for free. I would love to have someone there to say that score sent a student to North Korea is like life goals, you know? So yeah, I'm not kidding. If you want to study in North Korea, I will be your counselor for free, okay? 100% confirmed. The next country that we're going to cover is equally interesting and far more accessible than North Korea, so stay tuned. You're gonna love it.