Pyongyang as a better Tokyo

[Taro Toporific]

Fictional Pyongyang - Hotel Ryugyong North Korea

Via Boingx2

[Greji]

Hotel Ryugyong North Korea

Well, that pretty well says it all, no much left to comment on there.
It appears that we're to miss out.

[Bucky]

Pyongyang traffic girls






The photographer of these young lasses has a whole collection of North Korean photos on his Flickr site.

[American Oyaji]

The photographer of these young lasses has a whole collection of North Korean photos on his Flickr site.

Before I click...are they all of females?

[Taro Toporific]

A constant source of amusement to the Japanese (and the rest of the world) is the uncompleted for the 20 years Ryugyong Hotel. In the past year it has reported several times that the foreign cellphone company who has upgraded Pyongyang city to 3G has resumed construction on the hotel.

Anyway, this is first CLEAR photo of the "completed" Hotel Doom, which makes it obvious that the contruction was done soley to enclose the building in glass, remove the 20 year old crane from the top, and make the hotel less of a laughing stock of Architecture.

[Tsuru]

This will make hoisting stuff up to continue construction a lot easier, I'm sure.

You would have thought by this time the shitty communist concrete has rot setting in and the structure itself has become a danger to the surrounding area.
But I'm sure Kim is telling the world it will last for a thousand years.

This phone company by the way, it is Chinese or South Korean?

[Taro Toporific]

This phone company {rebuilding the hotel} by the way, it is Chinese or South Korean?

Egypt's Orascom group (which has invested heavily in the North Korean mobile telephony and construction industries) has recently begun refurbishing the top floors of the tower. The company has put glass panels into the concrete shell and installed telecommunications antennas. South Korean estimations say that it would cost $2 billion to finish the hotel and make it safe, that is the same as 10% annual GDP of North Korea. ....
....Work on the tower will be finished by 2012, the year of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung, ex leader of North Korea. Orascom claimed that the main goal would mean to make the tower more attractive. Hopefully it does not mean finishing the cladding, yet the structure would be left unhabitable....
http://ryugyonghotel.com/

[Greji]

Filmed on location at Thunder Mountain, Disneyland East...

[Taro Toporific]

[Taro Toporific]

Hotel Doom 330.02 m (1,100 ft), vs 295.8 m (970 ft) for Yokohama Landmark Tower [color="Gray"](Japan's tallest building)[/color]

A newer photo taken Feb. 25, 2010...

[Taro Toporific]

[Ganma]

[Russell]

[SIZE="4"]New Machine to Be Introduced in Next Year's Farm Work[/SIZE]

Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- Kye Ung Sang College of Agriculture affiliated with Kim Il Sung University has developed a new-type combined farm machine.

The machine, attached to tractor, is capable of plowing, harrowing and leveling rice fields simultaneously.

It can remarkably improve the rice field management, while sharply reducing tractor's working hours and consumption of fuel.

The efficient machine is to be introduced in farm work from next year.

Anyone have a pic of this revolutionary machine???

[Coligny]

Wait... first... does anyone have a picture of North Korean Rice...

[Russell]

Wait... first... does anyone have a picture of North Korean Rice...

You mean this?



O wait, wrong flag. Must be rice from England...

Maybe this?



No, that is our harvest of butt plugs.

If rice is planted...



then there must be a harvest...



Rich harvest. Wait... those goats... eat our HARVEST!!!
Where is Greiji when we need him?

Let's ask our



Not spiritual in this sense...



but this, visiting a rice farm...



What were those rags again?



Ah, finally found a rice.
(or at least the straw)

[Taro Toporific]

The BBC is claiming to have a new video but it seems to be just a video report showing the same still photos...

North Korea's Ryugyong 'Hotel Of Doom': First Images Of Unfinished Interior(slideshow)
huffingtonpost.co.uk | 2012/09/27
On Sept. 23, 2012 photo released by Koryo Group on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012 shows the first interor photos the 105-story Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea. After years of standing unfinished, construction on the exterior of the massive hotel resumed three years ago but the hotel has not yet opened to the public.
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Revealing more of North Korea
North Korea remains a mystery to most of the West, but through small glimpses into the daily life of North Koreans, more and more is revealed about this mysterious country. Associated Press photographers David Guttenfelder and Vincent Yu have been fortunate to have unprecedented access to some areas in Pyongyang, the country's largest city by both land area and population.( 50 photos total)

https://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2012/ ... korea.html

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[Coligny]

They look like soldiers, told to look like civilians doing civi... --stuff-- ... and asked to look not too hungry in front of the cameras... Feels like Saddham Hussein photo ops in 90-91 posing with childs of occidental hostage...

But that monster-hotel give me architechtural bonerz... i'd soooooo want to see it... But i'd be scared shitless to go in NK... double shitless if the Korean food try to get me again...

[matsuki]

But that monster-hotel give me architechtural bonerz... i'd soooooo want to see it... But i'd be scared shitless to go in NK... double shitless if the Korean food try to get me again...

Good from afar but far from good. You know Japanese construction...now imagine how safe NK construction must be

[Taro Toporific]

Good from afar but far from good. You know Japanese construction...now imagine how safe NK construction must be

Hotel Doom doomed, again...

North Korea Luxury Hotel Scrapped By Kempinski Amid Threats Of Nuclear War
ibtimes.com / April 10 2013
It looks like North Korea’s “Hotel of Doom” will live up to its name after all. German luxury hotelier Kempinski made the shocking announcement last November that it would open at least 100 rooms at the 105-story Ryugyong Hotel by the end of 2013. This week, amid growing tensions on the Korean Peninsula, it made the less shocking revelation that it had pulled out of the project...
... Kempinski -- which was not investing in the project but merely managing it -- had high hopes...
...The massive hotel has long been a symbol of North Korea’s economic problems. Scheduled for completion in 1989 for the 13th World Festival of Youth and Students, it was abandoned by 1992 amid economic mismanagement and insufficient funds.
Orascom Telecom, an Egyptian company that operates a mobile phone network in the hermetic nation, began equipping the building in 2008 and reportedly spent upward of $180 million on finishing the hotel’s façade.
The last outsiders to go inside were members of a Beijing-based tour company, who were granted a rare glimpse last year. They released photos online of an expansive glass lobby with tiers of bare concrete, likening the inside of the Ryugyong Hotel to a car park.
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[sublight]

That 'glass' looks more like Photoshop, to be honest.

[Coligny]

That 'glass' looks more like Photoshop, to be honest.

It's because of the poster... But I think for once Taro didn't need to fire up the Toshop's...

[Taro Toporific]

That 'glass' looks more like Photoshop, to be honest.

It's because of the poster... But I think for once Taro didn't need to fire up the Toshop's...

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Best Korea has added a massive LED display showing a waving North Korean flag to the top of Pyongyang’s Ryugyong Hotel Doom.
https://www.nknews.org/2018/04/huge-led ... el-photos/

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