Arirang Festival

Photographer: sabrinawang
From: travel to North Korea

Arirang Festival

100,000 North Korean residents trained for a year to perform at the Arirang Festival (The Mass Games). The state's immense, immaculately choreographed display of culture, one of the rare events to which foreigners are invited. The huge backdrops are made from human pixels, 50，000 of performers holding sequences of coloured placards. this was communist precision at its best. The sights unfolding across from us were amazing. The flowers you see in the picture above are part of one large image - a collage formed by 50,000 people holding large, colored cards above their heads.