We reported earlier on the sad spectacle of rich Westerners golfing in the middle of the North Korean police state. Now comes this update. Could the participants not be aware that they were essentially be tended to by slaves? Note the pathetic comments of one loser participant about the young female college graduates that were lined up as caddies. I only wish they would publish the names of the individuals who willingly gave their money to this police state:
“The organizer of North Korea’s first ever amateur golf tournament for foreign visitors claim to be deluged with applications, according to a Japanese weekly. The magazine quoted a spokesman for London-based Lupine Travel as expressing regret that it cannot admit all of over 200 applicants from Japan, Germany, the U.S. and elsewhere as only 30 places are available.
The magazine interviewed a Korean who has already golfed at the Pyongyang Golf Complex, the only course in the country for North Koreans, although it was not clear whether he is South Korean or Korean Japanese.
He said there are about 30 female caddies at the complex in their 20s or 30s, many of them graduates of the prestigious Kim Il-sung University. ‘Caddies were beautiful and considerate,’ he said. ‘After I finished playing golf, I came out of the shower at the club house, and there was a woman dressed in traditional Korean costume holding a towel. I instantly wondered whether there was another service waiting for me, but there was no 19th hole.'”