The Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Area Pro just over the horizon?
Where surfers are able to practice our favorite pastime has exploded over the past decade. Once confined to coastal areas with waves, we can now surf in Waco, Texas, Rusty Plunge, Australia, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, basically, as Jeep foretold, “the world.”
Still, the announcement of the sprawling Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Area in North Korea’s bottom third sent shivers up spines.
Described as “North Korea’s Waikiki” by South Korean media, Wonsan features sand-front luxury towers, waterslides and possibly soon a Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch. The 11x World Champion has much experience building wave pools using happy laborers who live in company housing while riding company busses to and from the job site.
The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shared, “The guests’ hearts were filled with overwhelming emotion as they felt the astonishing new heights of our-style tourism culture blossoming under the era of the Workers’ Party astonished by the grandeur and splendor of the tourist city, which can accommodate nearly 20,000 people.
Kim Jong-Un toured paradise with his wife and daughter and seemed to be very pleased with what he saw, saying it would go down as “one of the greatest successes this year.”
Russian tourists are expected to begin arriving next week, many likely bringing surfboards and also making it feel like “North Korea’s Bali.
The Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Area Pro just over the horizon?
How much, you think, for North Korea to woo the World Surf League?
Exciting days.
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Didnt he shoot a 34 under par at golf for one round?
Kim be 2026 world champ for sure
not sure about that but Clayton Kershaw threw his 3000th strikeout tonight in an epic dodgers game. C3K.
it’s a must watch
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“Find me Buond…James Buond”
Kim looks like a decent sort of bloke that you’d be able to sit down and share a few beers and BBQ with.
Might have to yarn him up about opening a BG/Tower 9/ Larry’s themed bar (with on-site rum distillery) at his beach, maybe get Timmy to do the menu…
The Kalma complex is easily visible on Google Earth – right next to the airport runway in Wonsan.
Guaranteed noise and jetfuel fumes, if offshore –
High-quality wave setups nearby, a series of right points.
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Rusty Plunge mural opportunities
what’s the going rate for surf instructors?
Happy Camper Surf School will do well with the ruskies and noko’s.
How absurd is it to ponder a 2027 CT Tour schedule with back-to-back-to-back stops… El Salvador, then Abu Dhabi, then North Korea?
I call dibs on fixing the sister!
Korean women got it going on
Surfers love big faces?
And big racks
Look at him..walking on the beach in a suit like Tricky Dick in San Clemente
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Cottons
With only one set of footprints.
I carried you, my son
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Some might argue he was our last great and most honest President
Some are retards
Surfing will save the world. It’s the way it’s meant to be.
I just learnt 5 minutes ago that Harvey Keitel was fired at the 11th hour and replaced by Martin Sheen.
Hearts of Darkness, the Apocalypse Now doco, is incredible.
So much more than just a movie*
sea of darkness better?
Sea of Darkness very good. Stay at Joyo’s Camp, they have a copy👍🏼
That’s not the real movie that they have. Guarantee it says Below Zero Films (or something like that) across the bottom and that’s the Martin edit. Don’t think any copies exist of the original.
Ok it’s the fake movie. Go get Barrelled, Barrelled and quit being a Darrel for fuck sake.
What does that even mean ya fuckstick?
one of the best doco’s.
This place is covered with hotels that all look the same and not a single one appear to have a pool (swimming pool).
What about that fucking airport 100m away and Dengue moat in between?
Hey Kim Jong-Un, you need a mural?
😂😂😂
$15k, or else mf
hahaha
“Once confined to coastal areas with waves, we can now surf in Waco.”
Well, I guess it depends on what your definition of ‘surfing’ is.
If riding a man-made slush of water pushed at you from a machine, in an artificial big tub with chlorine, with snack bars and cotton candy around it, and a big wall around it to keep poor folks and poor kids out, etc, etc.
Well maybe, but it’s not my definition.
I wish we could keep the poor kids out of real surfing spots. And rich kids. All kids, really (they all surf better than me and it makes me feel old and ashamed)
Well, don’t feel that way, you had your day in the sun too,
Just take it for what it is, and simply enjoy each wave and ride and be stoked you’re out in the Ocean.
PS
Anybody know what happened to Jeep after they dumped the Wsl.
Is the ladder-company still holding the pole-advertising spot at the Wsl?
Dirk and Natasha must be proud…..
I do wonder if they care. Per bloomberg their net worth increased by more than $2 billion in the past 5 years so they’ve still got the chump change to keep the league afloat in their couch cushions
Yup, keeping the League afloat is pocket change for Dirk.
I’m sure Dirks’s smiling all the way to the bedroom—happy wife happy life.
As I’ve said prior; keeping professional surfing alive for a few more years is actually a much better way to waste money than the other ways billionaires usually waste their money. The two of them get a pass. And wouldn’t blame them when they sell to the Saudis.
Astound internet is Ziff’s new toy.
Do you describe yourself as a “tribal soul surfer” at dinner parties Freerider?
Other than the man-made part, it sounds like Santa Cruz.