I was wondering!

Can't tell how it's different since I don't know any Korean so would like to know the difference in accents.

@@thepaintingbanjo8894 Wikipedia has a broad overview, but it's pretty technical: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%E2%80%93South_differences_in_the_Korean_language

@@thepaintingbanjo8894 it’s like an American speaking to a British person. Different ways of pronunciations. North Korean is much more formal than South Korean since they don’t use borrowed English words. So basically, North Koreans use the old fashioned way of speaking while South Koreans speak like people from the future.

You. The start of this video. 🤝 North Korean descent.

Hopefully we get a good season 4 arc with him.

@@dominicwilliamson7912 Let's assume next season, we're still on Mars and the dude has learned some English by then

"화성인" Hwaseong-In

We saw about as much of him as we saw of the Russian detector in season 2, so this is probably setup for his character in season 4. I'm guessing he'll return to Earth with the combined American/Soviet/Helios crew, but it's possible North Korea sends him back to Mars afterwards or he insists on staying behind to protect his landing site or something like that.

At least we have The Martian movie

I would love to see the media reporting on it and the public reaction in the next season, as everyone is just like, wtf

@@MrOil-qy3vv Especially after the US media have all been trying to smugly claim the race as a US win...

Yeah, but are they also going to talk about how it was a suicide mission with no plan to be able to return to earth?

Yup, it’s just as unreal IRL as in the universe of FAM.

@@DavidiusViajelous Obviously they would, anything to diminish the accomplishment.

Transleta from italian to english: SPOILER, fa ridere anche la scena dopo, in cui danielle cerca di comunicare con lui tramite i segni, ed appena lui si fida e abbassa l'arma kutnezov, in pieno stile russo, gli sfila il tubo dell'ossigeno!

NK “We we’re first on mats” US and USSR chads astronauts “Bro, crash landing doesn’t count”

@@aaronescobar2057 I agree. And as Sojorunner also crash-landed (is not able to fly back), that would probably also not count.

I think the point of the series is to show us how brilliant humans can be to be first. And how utterly stupid at the same time. They all pushed things further than they knew was wise because of all the national-pride issues. High five the Koreans for surprising everyone or slap them for WTF didn't you tell the Mars crews to go look for your people? it could be just a comm issue. But of course they wouldn't want to admit failure. Better pretend it never happened. facepalm.

honestly the Russian commander's "motherfucker" just felt so perfect for the scene. Like "we did all this work, raced each other, I lost my space craft, we both lost crew members. And we even got in a fist fight trying to make sure one of us was first. And a NORTH KOREAN, beat us by MONTHS!"

not just on Mars, but man, he and his mate survive months of trips to mars in that tiny little space craft

Let’s not forget that he lives in North Korea.

@@d-manflorida4976 he would have been better off staying in North Korea lol

@@EzzieMoore a lot better

Meh he's an NK, it wasn't enough.

IIRC writer didn't decide who's boot is it until later in the production, where they came up with this plot twist that NK beat everyone to the Mars first.

its bot the same year, 1995

@@8749236 Well they had to know it would be someone from a communist nation, as they were wearing a Cosmonaut space suit.

@@BlackfyreHD no not really

It'd shock North Korea too - they can't even get into orbit right now.

Or not enough fuel for a successful suicide burn.

My kerbal when half their ship just disappeared during reentry

Bill when I strand him on Duna for 9999999999999999999999999999 years.

@@zainabumer4526 "Not to worry, we're still flying half a ship"

​@@THEncrtrooper The magic of Kerbalism never fails 💯

Read Titan by Stephen Baxter. There's a landing sequence in there that haunts me. And no, it's not near the beginning.

​@@trumfiteverything by him is sad and depressing.

maybe it's more of mutual respect rather than survival cuz he would have probably eaten him if he didn't care about the dead dude

@@EzzieMoore oh shit yeah that’s a good point. Mark Watney woulda eaten the shit out of him lol.

I'm fairly sure that was suicide mission, long term survival was not the issue.

@@randomnickify you have a valid point

Dude just tanked a landing from orbit without a chute...hes that tough he probably doesn't need the suit he's wearing let alone his friends

The perfect joke does not exis....

Sounds like a the expanse joke

"An astronaut and a cosmonaut walk into a bar, but the bar is on mars and there's a korean cosmonaut there"

@@elnico5623 "What'll you have? says the Korean Cosmonaut, that beat them both there"

Maybe it should be changed to that the North Korean had built the bar.

Agreed

They knew they could ask one of three others for a ride back home.

They could ask the Mars 94 to bring their guy back. After all, USSR and North Korea were still best friend.

Same goes to Apollo where NASA dropped the plan of putting a Saturn V on standby as rescue vehicle during lunar mission and ready to go in case of an emergency. That's what cold war and space race is, it's literally a war, minus the firing at each other part, that both sides are willing to win at all cost.

I’m confused tho, how did he survive in that little probe for 2 years? Matt Damon couldn’t survive properly in the Martian despite having a base bigger than James town with far superior 2030s technology. And air, food, water? You can come with whatever excuse but a probe in that size CANNOT supply a man for 2 years. Even the giant base of the Martian was quite laughable for a 1+ year survival on Mars. Ain’t no way the Korean man was farming oxygen and canned food.

@@Nemenis They are consuming food & water and not producing it. To grow something you need a lot more resources. For all we know they slapped an extra storage pod on the end of the capsule that they either jettisoned in space or burned up on reentry to Mars.

- How do we get back to earth? NK space agency: We hijack the craft of second comers. Problem solved.

Their command model wouldn't have had enough fuel to then take off, accelerate out of LMO and decelerate in LEO let alone provide enough space for supplies. The DPRK really had a one-way suicide to Mars.

@@quinzerrak4975 now that i think about it, the North Koreans really pushed things this season, first their debris damages Polaris, then they reach Mars First with a Soyuz copy (also although is feasible, they do make a one way trip)

More like: *_n o_*

@@S.Ghosh_221 NK: Mission completed. Turn off all the comms

@Del Cox Uuuy...you've reminded me that, in reality, the US declaring a goal of walking on the moon explicitly mentioned the return trip.

@@floydjohnson7888 It is possible that there will be a return vehicle launched later, like what Robert Zubrin proposed Mars architecture. However, since Korea wants to keep it a secret, or they simply haven't finished it, or both, they cannot launch the return vehicle ahead of manned Mars launch. The idea is similar to Phoenix's plan, reach Mars first, then manufacture enough propellant for the trip home.

@@8749236 Zubrin vehicle wasn't supposed to be launched before?

@@victor_silva6142 Yes, but it can launch at a later date if astronaut were to stay on Mars for ~2 years. The idea of launching early is that astronaut can do a shorter stay and have an abort option. If those are thrown out of the window, then the return vehicle can be launched after crewed launch.

@@8749236 I see. Thanks

Hard to believe? In 1995? Hard to believe even the South Koreans and Japanese (assuming they could ever cooperate) could do it. For the North Koreans? Not even good SF.

@@Cruiserfrank Its definitely possible in 95. If North Korea spent all their money on space instead of war. A one way mission while hard, is not impossible.

Maybe if North Korea didn't research nuclear weapons and put all of those resources into a space program, yes this might be possible.

@@mae_doll optimally, it would take 7 months to get there. Where are you going to put 7 months worth of food on a Soyuz capsule?

@@GreenPartyHat Accounting for the fact that this is a wealthy North Korea that still has Soviet backing, meaning the economy wouldn’t have become trapped in the 70s like IRL.

It was a suicide mission

you do know that even back in the 1960s there was oxy generating machine in the capsules right? they don't have to carry atmosphere.

I’d imagine they would have told the astronaut to hitch a ride back with the soviets so probably not a suicide

@@sc-gy4lg the ideology of Juche means they were sent on a suicide mission

​@toomanyaccounts Those machines and modern ones as well, have a limited life span. For example the life support on Crew Dragon is only good for about 10 days.

In that timeline I would have grown up in a russian puppet state surrounded by communist propaganda. So, "better world" is subjective.

Or makes you be grateful the world isn't worse

And they gave you a gun instead of a ride home.

Well the two super powers also on the way on Mars

Both of the superpowers weren’t still in moon phase. They were already on the way.

I mean it’s embarrassing for North Koreans to admit their astronaut crashed on Mars. Let alone sending him to a suicide mission to “win”

In this universe, North Korea is less militarized because they focused on space more. So North Korea wouldn’t be as much of a shit hole

@@mardkam_triplesh also without the collapse of the USSR they wouldn’t be suffering from the massive famine they were experiencing in the 90s in reality

@@Mr.E723 true

​@@mardkam_triplesh I Mean the USSR Is less of A Shit Hole,But North Korea? Are you sure?

@@kevinhenrique4256 yeah man. Ussr is still there, and investing in space means better quality of life than investing in military

The parallels between Lee Jung Gill and Danny and Margo and Sergei are quite apparent but different too. Don’t forget about Chekov’s Gun, property of The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea that was buried in the Martian sand by Dani and Kuznetsov. I hope HE becomes Chekov’s Gun himself rather than operating the gun on himself, being the “oh we thought he’s dead but he’s still there and he saved Ed or Kelly or her child” guy in Season 6. I hope Danny can still talk with Jimmy and Amber from the little Soyuz descent module. He’s probably set up to redeem himself eventually

@@fork9001 Wanna bet they left that gun there so Danny can kill himself?

they really left Danny just a few meters away from the only Gun on Mars huh?

@@MekDog69 I wonder if he’s gonna game over himself?

He sucked the remaining oxygen from his dead friend's lungs before burying him.

Improvised Recycler - powered by using improvised reactor from isotope heat source?

And North Korea does kinda have a ramshackle space program. In season 2 they said they gave up on ICBM and focused fully on space. Add that to the space race continuing and the Soviet union becoming a massive economy willing to help them it doesn't seem that out there, especially with a simple one way trip

it actually is the most likely thing, north korea would most likely do anything to be the best.

oh i just realized the vest is similar to the one worn on the soviet mars suit

They mentioned that NK bought their space tech from USSR

It's either a radio or a better life support system.

that suit is so similar from early Soviet Soyuz suit lol

I think with the USSR still going, and now the North Korean space program it is enogh communist countries for now, also, i remember that Turkey had one too so putting an arabian/muslim player in the table will be far more interesting.

So obviously season 4 has came through and no appearance of china yet in any major scale. The reason why there is a lack of China in the show is likely due to Apple's guidelines on how they want to have China portrayed as a nation, as it would potentially do harm to their Chinese market if they portrayed China as a space adversary, hence no china in the show and the likelyhood on why they went with North Korea instead.

Dunno if that astronaut would still like NK after that tho

See, if he dies on mars then that's not going to be an issue.

I don’t think the plan was to hitch a ride at all. He seemed very determined to stay with his capsule and protect it at all costs. If the plan was to hitch a ride back he would have welcomed the Americans and Soviets with open arms. It really was a suicide mission which is totally in line with the government values of North Korea.

or The Martian !

@@Brownshoe24 Which itself reminded me of the same movie lol

People argued who got to mars first taking still frames of the video to show who stepped on Mars first. And it didn't matter because neither one of them was on mars first. XD

Danielle Poole is still the first woman on Mars though. So the US got first in something.

When episode 5 showed Danny and Grigori simultaneously stepping onto the Martian surface, I wondered about the ending shot from season 2, which showed a single person stepping onto the surface. I thought that since they both got to Mars first, that shot was just a figurative, non-literal way of showing how humanity would get to Mars by 1995. But, I started to wonder whether or not it was a twist, and episodes 9 & 10 cleared that suspicion! Somehow the DPRK wipes the floor with Danielle and Grigori! XD

The South Korea would make it into a comedy drama and call it "Crash Landing on You after Mars".

they weren't on the same radio frequency, wouldn't make a difference if he knew russian at that situation

LOL! most nks no nothing of the outside world except propaganda

that is what shocked the USSR President and everybody else. they outright discuss it

Jimmy going to space now that's a story.