And all they had to do was shut down all of their universities for ten months and send all the students into various blue collar labor jobs. Such as construction.
[url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/8602525/North-Korea-shuts-down-universities-for-10-months.html[/url]
And then, nobody used it.
[QUOTE=Sumap;32780626]And then, nobody used it.[/QUOTE]Yeah, because they're all to fucking poor! It's only for government people, and to make glorious leader look good.
[editline]14th October 2011[/editline]
Official website: [url]http://ryugyonghotel.com/[/url]
God that looks shitty.
I can't wait for a strong wind to knock it down.
Looks like a crazy space ship.
We can't feed our own people but, fuck it, let's build a gigantic, monolithic-looking hotel in the middle of our dead city-center.
Finally the Glorious Leader can have his Glorious Tower of Doom.
The rooms are free.
Just dislike the glorious leader and you too can have your own 10ftx10ft basement cell with a hole for a toilet and a regular beating!
It's probably a super weapon in disguise.
[QUOTE=booster;32781156]It's probably a super weapon in disguise.[/QUOTE]
i bet that the hotel is actually the tip of a 20 km tall walking monolith of death.
[QUOTE=booster;32781156]It's probably a super weapon in disguise.[/QUOTE]
The three sides of the building fold down to reveal a gigantic super-laser :v:
1080 feet is about 330 meters.
Did it take 24 years just to build that? I understand it's North Korea, but still
[QUOTE=Egg;32781248]1080 feet is about 330 meters.
Did it take 24 years just to build that? I understand it's North Korea, but still[/QUOTE]
no they ran out of budget a bunch of times and had to stop building it. then there were a bunch of technical problems and they had to stop building it because they were years not building it. in the end they had to rebuild the whole thing internally because they weren't building it for so long it ended up being an useless pile of unbuilt concrete waiting to be built. now they're trying to build back what wasn't built in order to save what's to be built and re-build what was built because their building had stopped the building process for too long and building up budget to build back the interior of the building takes a lot to build.
[editline]14th October 2011[/editline]
in the end, it's all about building.
I remember blowing this tower up in Mercenaries.
[QUOTE]Earlier this year the regime announced it would shut universities for 10 months and send students to work in factories, agriculture and the construction sector to help rebuild its economy by 2012.[/QUOTE]
What the fuck! That sucks, but due to the brainwashing they do to people in NK, most of them probably don't mind and see it as a honor or some shit.
[QUOTE=NO ONE;32782464]What the fuck! That sucks, but due to the brainwashing they do to people in NK, most of them probably don't mind and see it as a honor or some shit.[/QUOTE]
They have working factories in North Korea?
Pyongyang is so fucking empty. Guaranteed, Ryugyong will have barely any guests at any given time, just like all of the other massive penis-waving hotels.
The rest of the city looks like something from 50 years ago. Sort of surreal.
[QUOTE=booster;32781156]It's probably a super weapon in disguise.[/QUOTE]
they stuffed the bodies of the dead workers in there as a kind of bioweapons vat
[editline]15th October 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;32782768]They have working factories in North Korea?[/QUOTE]
They have factories in North Korea?
Reminds me of the citadel from HL2.
Fits the totalitarian nature of NK's government too.
Every time I hear of the Ryugyong Hotel, I can't help but think of the Hanoi Hilton :v:
You know how it works. They get you drunk until you pass out, and then you wake up in your room's bathroom in a tub full of ice, and your kidneys have become communists.
[quote]However, three years ago, North Korea announced plans to resume and complete construction, in partnership with Orascom Group Inc, an Egyptian conglomerate.[/quote]
Those Egyptians and their crumbling pyramids...
[QUOTE=pg.;32779517]I've read that thing is fucked beyond repair. It might have a nice facade, but the structure itself has serious issues, like miss-aligned elevator shafts and other structural problems. Wouldn't be surprising considering it's been exposed to the elements for that long.[/QUOTE]
I mean, I know it's in North Korea, but I [i]was[/i] sort of wondering why they called it the hotel of doom.
Reminds me of the Ministry of Love.
It actually looks pretty cool on that shot.
Just put a huge logo on top and you have the HQ of an evil megacorporation (+ the declining city around it)
[QUOTE=Murkat;32779680]I'd laugh so hard if the war between North and South Korea flared up again and a tank punched a giant hole through that building.[/QUOTE]
Tank? After being exposed to the elements for 24 years, I could punch a hole in it with a spitball.
[QUOTE=pg.;32779517]I've read that thing is fucked beyond repair. It might have a nice facade, but the structure itself has serious issues, like miss-aligned elevator shafts and other structural problems. Wouldn't be surprising considering it's been exposed to the elements for that long.[/QUOTE]
I'm predicting it's three times worse than anything the Chinese construct. I would never wanna visit this hotel. Lead paint probably everywhere.
16 years I've waited for a fucking holiday.
16 years.
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