International Friendship Exhibition Myohyang

International Friendship Exhibition, Myohyang - darkometer rating : 3 - (but weirdness factor 10!) An underground exhibition consisting of all the gifts that the Great and Dear Leaders of North Korea , Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il , were ever given on state visits or similar occasions. It's unique and one of the very craziest but at the same time most popular sites in the whole of the DPRK . > More background info > What there is to see > Location > Access and costs > Time required > Combinations with other dark destinations > Combinations with non-dark destinations More background info: It is of course customary that during state visits high-ranking politicians and leaders exchange gifts, but nowhere else in the world has the entire collection of such gifts received been amassed in one "museum" (of sorts) for the "public" to view. And the exhibition is truly vast. They claim that if you were to spend one minute on every single exhibit it would take a year and a half to get through it all. Even recalibrated to a more likely half a second per exhibit, it would still mean weeks of goggling at what must be the world’s largest collection of tack. Because, that's what it basically is. Every single gift the Great and Dear Leaders were given (or sent) had to go straight into the collection – and a large proportion of it isn't exactly a manifestation of good taste … The exhibition has two sections, the older and larger part for the Great Leader Kim Il Sung 's gifts, the other for his successor son, Dear Leader Kim Jong Il . The exhibition is said to contain over 70,000 gifts for the deceased Great Kim senior, and still over 40,000 for the Dear Kim the younger, now also deceased ... whether there will be a third section for Kim III, i.e. Kim Jong Un, who succeeded his ill dad Il after his sudden death in 2011, remains to be seen. Probably not.