Fictional Pyongyang - Hotel Ryugyong North Korea
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Taro Toporific wrote:Hotel Ryugyong North Korea
Bucky wrote:The photographer of these young lasses has a whole collection of North Korean photos on his Flickr site.
Tsuru wrote:This phone company {rebuilding the hotel} by the way, it is Chinese or South Korean?
Taro Toporific wrote:
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]
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.
Coligny wrote:Wait... first... does anyone have a picture of North Korean Rice...
Coligny wrote: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...
chokonen888 wrote:Good from afar but far from good. You know Japanese construction...now imagine how safe NK construction must be
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 wrote:That 'glass' looks more like Photoshop, to be honest.
Coligny wrote:sublight wrote: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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