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Hungarian journalist gets taste of Korea in 1934

In 1934, a young female journalist, Ms. Julia Geszty from the Hungarian daily Pesti Hirlap, headed off on a long journey to the East. At first, she visited South Asian territories: She crossed India, Burma and Siam, and then...

2021-03-31

Hungarian bikers cross Korea in their world tour

Motorcycle fans were not the only ones who heard about the two Hungarians who made an incredible journey around the world on a sidecar motorcycle between 1928 and 1936. The young men, Zoltan Sulkowsky and Gyula Bartha, crossed...

2021-02-23

Hungarian envoy reports on North Korea in 1951

The North Korean leadership during the Korean War was totally isolated from the Western World. However, the diplomats from the Central and Eastern European countries serving there were allowed...

2020-06-14

Eastern European physicians on the battlefields in North Korea

During the Korean War, five countries - Sweden, India, Denmark, Norway and Italy - provided medical support to the Republic of Korea. Meanwhile, some of the former Soviet bloc countries including Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia...

2020-05-03