iGoBart | |
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Personal information | |
Born | Bart van Genugten Netherlands |
YouTube information | |
Channel | |
Location | Seoul, South Korea |
Genre(s) | Travel, history of Korea |
Subscribers | 220,000[1] |
Total views | 34.6 million[1] |
Website | www |
Last updated: August 2024 |
Bart van Genugten (born c. 1993[2]) is a Dutch YouTuber in South Korea that operates the channel iGoBart.[3]
Van Genugten was born in the Netherlands. He obtained a master's degree in human geography and worked as a program director for Yemen in the NGO CARE International. He first moved to South Korea in 2017, after backpacking in East and Southeast Asia for six months.[2] He became interested in producing videos about Korea after seeing other travel vloggers cover the same few mainstream details about Korea, without going into further depth.[2] A number of his early videos are about the relationship of him and his South Korean then-girlfriend.[2] Van Genugten visited North Korea in 2018, and biked 2,000 km (1,200 mi) around South Korea in 2021.[3][4] He also created a number of videos that featured Dutch veterans of the Korean War and about 17th century Dutch mariner in Korea Hendrick Hamel.[5][2] In September 2022, he started the "Welcome to My Dong" series, in which he visits each dong (administrative district, similar to a neighborhood) of Seoul, and gives an introduction of the area and its history. There are 467 dong in Seoul,[6][3] and van Genugten created videos for 61 of them by December 2023.[4] In a video covering Seongbuk-dong, he interviewed Dutch ambassador to Korea Peter van der Vliet.[2] In 2023, he published a Korean-language book of his travel experience in North Korea.[3]
In 2022, he received a Global Influencer Award from the National Assembly of South Korea.[4] He married his Korean wife in 2019.[2]