The Swedish-Korean
Association (Svensk-Koreanska föreningen)...
The Swedish-Korean
Association (Svensk-Koreanska föreningen) blogs about Felix Abt’s new book. Translation:
New book by Felix Abt
The Swiss entrepreneur Felix Abt, who lived and worked in DFR Korea for many
years and became famous with his book A capitalist in North Korea, has now
released the sequel North Korea behind the veil, with the subtitle What the
mainstream media does not want you to see !, which is free as an e-book. In the
preface, Abt writes, among other things; North Korea has been portrayed for
decades as a monolithic gulag network filled with slaves and a hellhole by the
mass media. The socio-economic changes North Korea has undergone over the last
decade or more have been almost entirely unreported. Despite my firsthand
knowledge and insights gleaned from my time in this isolated country, my views
have been largely ignored by the mainstream media. The reason for this, I
believe, is because I have tried to be as fair and objective as possible,
instead of merely trashing the country as I’ve been expected to. Against this
background, Abt writes that he owes the North Korean people to continue to tell
the outside world about their country. The book can be downloaded here as a pdf file.
