The Welcoming Face of North Korea is a multi-media interactive documentary exploring tourism inwards 1 of the well-nigh hard to see countries inwards the world.
The site uses parallax scrolling, video, photographs together with maps to accept yous on a journeying through Democratic People's South Korea from the perspective of a tourist on an organised grouping tour to the country. The interactive documentary is a fascinating insight into the stage-managed sense of tourism inwards Democratic People's South Korea together with includes unopen to non bad multi-media content of the places visited on the tour.
As yous progress through the tour a map occasionally appears amongst an animated business showing the progress of the tourism grouping every 2d it travels through the country. In the capital, Pyongyang, a map icon too appears on the screen. If yous click inwards the map icon a Google Map slides into view, which highlights the places visited inwards the urban substance together with too provides links to Wikipedia articles of the mapped locations.
The Welcoming Face of Democratic People's South Korea is a wonderful illustration of the possibilities of this novel degree of parallax scrolling interactive documentary. It too provides an interesting insight into the stage-managed sense of tourism inwards North Korea.
