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03Roam Editorial

The Access Game

Drew Binsky has been to every country; the passport is beside the point now. His latest access: a day in Seoul with Kang, who spent thirteen years in Kim Jong-il's personal guard.

When you have already been everywhere, where do you go? Drew Binsky's answer this month did 2.3 million views in eleven days, and it wasn't shot anywhere exotic — a Seoul fish market, a hanok village, a bar in Itaewon. Its geography is one man's memory. Kang served in the bodyguard unit from seventeen to thirty-one, was issued no body armour, and says his total pay for those years amounted to the equivalent of 23 kilos of rice.

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