Does your souvenir collection include a post-marked card from North Korea?

Palisades Park, NJ – Uri Tours, the largest American provider of North Korea travel, creates Kickstarter® campaign to encourage communication between the people of the United States and North Korea via postcards.

On average 5,000-6,000 Westerners visit North Korea every year. One of the largest provider of these trips is Uri Tours. Started by a Korean-American family, Uri Tours has been specializing in DPRK travel for the last 10 years. The company is launching a Kickstarter® campaign to help connect the people of the United States with North Korea. The campaign will involve “backing” a postcard on Kickstarter® for $10-$30. In order to start the dialogue, Uri Tours is asking backers to share something about themselves and asking the postcard senders in North Korea to do the same. The stories of both author and recipient will later be turned into an art installation that will be entered into Art Prize® 2016 in Grand Rapids, MI.

“We want to help show people that there’s more to this country than politics and government. It’s not all marching and guns and nukes. There are real people with real lives.” said Andrea Lee, Founder and CEO of Uri Travel. “When asked about what she would say to critics who might suggest that the postcard senders do not represent the real people of North Korea, she responded “We won’t pretend that they represent all 24 million people living there, but they are still hard working, everyday people just like us. We will have critics, but we believe that some dialogue is better than no dialogue at all.”

The Kickstarter® campaign started on July 8, 2015 and and will focus on spreading the word to savvy travelers who care about what life is like in other countries and are curious about life and travel there. The postcards are timed to deliver in October on the 70th anniversary of the division of Korea into North and South, following the end of WWII and the liberation of Korea from Japanese occupation. The goal of the project is to use art to start a conversation between people of two historically conflicted countries, the U.S. and the DPRK and to inform world travelers on the possibility of travel to North Korea and what life and travel is like there.

For travelers who want the pleasure of sending the postcard themselves, Kickstarter-edition trips to North Korea (departing from Shanghai and Beijing) are available to backers as well. This special edition tour will include an exclusive Skype session or pre-trip dinner with the company’s founder to get inside travel tips, talk about how the country has changed and answer any questions that travelers may have.

About the company: Uri Tours is the largest provider of North Korea travel in the U.S. and the exclusive Sales and Ticketing Agent of Air Koryo in all of the Americas. They have been facilitating travel for Americans to North Korea for over 10 years. Visit uritours.com for more information.

For more information, media inquiries only, contact:

Andrea Lee
Uri Tours
201-588-3874
nkpostcards@uritours.com
Campaign: www.kickstarter.com