Destinations Known | Not your usual Seoul travel guide – YouTube videos made by Dutchman ‘bored with Korea’ aim to document all the city’s 467 neighbourhoods
- Bart van Genugten has set out to explore every neighbourhood of the South Korean capital within four to six years, publishing the videos on his YouTube channel
- His warts-and-all approach is not typical tourist material but holds a certain charm and he often takes locals or experts familiar with each neighbourhood along
Minds out of the gutter, please, because the suggestively titled “Welcome to My Dong” series of videos is to be found on YouTube, not Pornhub, and the exhibitionist responsible, Bart van Genugten, reveals only enough of himself to present an exhaustive look at Seoul.
The Dutchman has set out to explore and document all 467 neighbourhoods – known as dong – of the South Korean capital, and has given himself four to six years to do so, he has told The Korea Times.
The videos and shorts he produces during his quest can be found on the YouTube channel iGoBart, which has almost 200,000 subscribers.
“[What] I have discovered, being 50 neighbourhoods into the project, is that every dong has something interesting, no matter how small, they all have something worthy of a visit, and I want to show this to the world,” he tells the Korean newspaper.
“Seoul is more than only the famous landmarks and has so much more to offer if you’re curious.”
