Why North Korea Is Hiding This Hotel

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I love how you actually looked into them, and gave a specific example of how different media covered a recent event which is relevant to the video, rather than vague descriptions.

[@ggscgaming]

The fact that this channel sprung up a few months ago and is already making documentaries comparable to prime time TV specials is absolutely insane.

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They have a past ;) @simplicissimus @romulushoog

[@konstantink07]

this video is just a translated version of the one on their german channel @simplicissimus from a few months ago.

[@juniorwmg]

I mean, its not like its their first time doing this. Look at Hoog, Simplicissimus, Reasy and 2 Bored Guys.

[@LasseHelbling]

​@@konstantink07Not only. They also make new videos i think.

[@konstantink07]

@@LasseHelbling I didn't say otherwise...

[@SlushGoblin]

Really intresting how you put the "own opinion" label in the corner. I wish more youtubers do this, so often youtubers intertwine fact and opinion a way that borders on miss information.

[@nussnougat5462]

They have started doing this on their german channel while being associated/supported by the national broadcast in germany. It's a given in good journalism and i totally agree with you, more youtubers should do that!

[@bc-guy852]

Well said. I totally agree.

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It's a thing that still comes from the time when the German channel was still part of German state media. It's more or less an established thing in the KZbin section of our state media

[@anuclitz]

A Indian youtuber Dhruv rathee does that

[@OhhRuse]

My grandfather is an Ex-Diplomat. He tells a story of being present for negotiations between North & South Korea in the DMZ. At nights the North Korean's started breaking in to the meeting rooms and using saws to shorten the height of the South Koreans chairs so that in the meetings the North Koreans would sit slightly higher at the table. Sort of like a petty form of dominance. It doesn't surprise me at all that they would build a taller building just to one up the South Koreans 😂😂

[@ishjuydfghju]

LOL

[@aao_music]

THAT is just the incarnation of pettiness 😭😭

[@maty6799]

Muy buena anécdota!!!

[@maxgreen8520]

yeah that's just tall tales. Shocking you believe it

[@bambooexpress]

I visited the DMZ some years ago and both sides have raised flags on each their border. Except North Korea raised their flags a little higher than South Korea.

[@thepoleontheroad]

When you said "in the heart of Pyongyang" it fits really well how the building in the heart of the capital, despite seeming glamorous and shiny, is actually the most empty, hollow behemoth - it kinda describes the country as a whole and what a rare visitor might see there.

[@MayorMcheese12]

What’s really cringe is that the idiot of s leader they have still builds all this stuff and tries to show off everything his country has when the whole world around him knows that the people are poor af and nobody uses any of the buildings he builds. Like bro the show has been over for decades the gig is up. Nobody cares about you and thinks you’re just a grown baby.

[@toidIllorTAmI]

I hope tourists stop going there. I like the tourists that send balloons filled with money to mess up their economy and actually help the poor NKs in the slums.

[@RatsAreNice222]

@@toidIllorTAmI Well it depends on the money being sent with balloons. Shops in NK dont accept dollars, but the government uses dollars. Sending in Won from North Korea wont do much to crash the economy of the government, instead it'll just make inflation go up and worsen quality of life for the citizens living there. So those people you like are actually making life harder for the North Koreans, or arent doing anything except make their government richer since Dollars cant be used in shops. Tourists going there fund the government. In all reality "messing up their economy" all its doing is making life harder for citizens, not the government. Since the government doesnt use their own currency, nor do they rely on the proper economy of North Korea, instead they rely on sending workers abroad, designing statues, and selling illegal materials. These people are actively making things worse.

[@norah4892]

It is actually the representation of the country.

[@G.A.C_Preserve]

@@toidIllorTAmI that's the actual plans made by the CIA known as the money 💥 The plans was to airdrop tons of North Korean currency down to the capital of North Korea and watch the riots happened as inflation rise Did this happened? Not yet

[@thedriverisliterallyme5331]

Imagine if south korea built a 1:1 copy of it in Seoul just because they can

[@reminiscer15]

That would be funny.

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[@holymess]

that would piss Magin Buu

[@oreziopancrazio3685]

Bs

[@HeppelhopV5]

@@holymess what

[@coltizz]

It’s funny that they try to build the tallest hotel ever when barely anyone is allowed to visit the country.

[@cryptagion]

That's not true, most people are allowed to visit, just not everyone is allowed to leave.

[@thesalad3]

This channel provides such high quality videos on such interesting topics, you earned a new sub!

[@watchingyouj112]

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[@koharumi1]

2:47 Fun fact: South Korea for a while was ruled under a military dictatorship. And it was the poorest country on earth just after the Korean war. Now it is one of the richest

[@parkerdavis7859]

And it has the cash injection from, and the pegging to the currency of, the United States to thank for it. I always find coverage of Korea to be woefully lacking context. South Korea was the more agrarian peninsula, North Korea was more fit for industrialization. Both were extremely poor for most of their history. Both were generationally scarred and mutilated by the occupation of Japan. Only the North faced the firebombs of the Korean War, though. And only the South had a major financial ally once the Soviet Union dissolved. It really is no wonder that the South was *only* able to truly surpass the North in terms of development when the North lost its biggest ally *and* became the most sanctioned country on Earth.

[@cachifli870]

​@@parkerdavis7859exactly, i forgot the exact percentages but around 82% of north Korean infrastructure was destroyed, during the korean war around 25% of north Korean population was killed.

[@canadapainter658]

80% S.Korea owned by foreign companies and that is a FACT TOO....

[@tekboi1984]

@@parkerdavis7859What do they expect will happen when your entire society is based on lies. Do you see what they teach their school children? What a mind-Fk!

[@zaaap0]

Its not one of the richest. According to what measure its supposed to be one of the richest?

[@NeiZaMo]

I think that section from 2:42 makes it sound like South Korea is a democracy due to US involvement when the reality is that it's a democracy in spite of US involvement. After all, the US backed the South Korean dictatorship for more than 40 years, right up until the USSR started to show serious signs of being at the verge of complete decay.

Good point! People shouldn't forget that the USA supports dictatorships.

[@knot289]

The south is still a country because of the United States, the thousands of US Marines, and the nuclear capability the US provides the south.

[@zayzay4405]

US helped. Don’t lie

[@ShaggyRogers1]

@@zayzay4405 US didn't help democracy in SK. US helped capitalism. The US backed a dictatorship in SK up through the fall of the Soviet Union, and only then allowed it to be toppled so that free elections could take place. It was SK's people that toppled the dictatorship and enabled sustained democracy in its place, *despite* US foreign pressure.

[@misterpinkandyellow74]

​@@zayzay4405he is not lying, you are just ignorant

[@AwokenEntertainment]

wow.. it's crazy that they built all of that only to never to get to really use it..

[@tomfoolery3847]

Thanks for the video. One little side note: At first I was a bit surprised at how fast you were going through South Korea's history, with it, after the division, "ultimately develop(ing) into a democracy". I find it at least worth mentioning that there were some years of military dictatorship between this. I know that this is not the main topic here, but nevertheless I'd find it important to know when already talking about Korea's history.

[@serebii666]

Well the video topic is not South Korea is it? The fact is American influence did lead South Korea to democracy or rather the necessity to keep ties to the West kept South Korean governments from ever going full totalitarian, and even fostering democratic periods and movements as well as organized civilian political activities, resulting in entities like the Second Korean Republic. Moreover, the point of the phrase as used in the video is literally to illustrate the influence other countries had in the political destinies of the Koreas - by South Korea being able to democratize implicitly implies that it was not a democracy from the outstart.

[@danielgstohl9993]

@@serebii666 The way it is phrased it could be interpreted like SK became a democracy and that's why the war with NK broke out. It's not the topic of the video, but an extra half sentence and some rephrasing could have helped a lot.

[@MaticTheProto]

@@danielgstohl9993also they aren’t that democratic. All bribes and other company influence

[@travelleryu]

Which is why some South Koreans reverse defected to the North during the cold war till 1970s only to terribly regret it. Nonetheless North Korea was way more industrialized and developed than the South during the Japanese occupation up until the Korean war started by North Korean dictators.

[@dirremoire]

South Korea may be a democracy, but it is one of the most corrupt democracies on the planet. Good paying jobs are vanishing. It's gotten so bad that young people are simply refusing to have kids.

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[@teamok1025]

YES

[@sandboy5880]

Not really.

[@Resuone]

I love this channel! I think it was a great idea for you to join forces and upload so frequently, you guys are really talented.

[@albevanhanoy]

I remember learning about this place by browsing Google Maps and finding this huge thing in the middle of Pyongyany, thinking: "What the HECK is this monstrosity???"

[@hugosommer5328]

Another Simplicissimus original

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[@praetorator]

Fern is the english channel of Simplicissimus, where they make new videos and sometimes translate older ones from the german Simplicissimus Channel

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yes i know, it was not a prejudice

[@clysm]

incredible production, round of applause! 👏

[@Thegoldenaerobar2]

Looks like the base of some very obvious supervillain that the superheros are trying to find 😂

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Please keep releasing these high quality videos, this channel deserves to blow up.

[@vonunterberg4313]

I love how these videos will still be relevant in 5 years or more. Like they are timeless

[@YogeshYogesh-mj1ee]

Hello friends

[@HeppelhopV5]

Cause north Korea's situation probably won't change for awhile

[@hyperteleXii]

Can't call it a hotel when there's never been guests. It's just... a building.

[@sorenliden]

You make such high quality, entertaining, engaging, and interesting content. I've watched all your videos and every single one of them is amazing. Keep it up!

[@milanhoffmann8754]

No he doesnt, this sucker is just stealing, they do it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2iyfXetrap8p5o

[@KizzMyAbs]

One of the problems with the hotel is the concrete foundation is too heavy and it’s sinking as well

[@maxismyidol]

Feels like i’m watching a documentary, good job!

[@keyboard-commentator]

man, that skyscraper looks really freaking cool. it'd be awesome if seoul or tokyo, or really anyone built an identical version, but like 100 meters taller. not only out of spite, but because it's truly a great design for a skyscraper.

[@G.A.C_Preserve]

But remember to reinforce it with steel as it's quite unstable (The original building is quite unstable)

[@sentosaco]

Amazingly interesting content and such elegant animations.

[@yametekudasaii01]

Nice video! The bldg is an epitome of beauty with underlying failure, mismanagement, poverty and selfish dictatorship. Architectural-wise, it makes the skyline prettier at night when lit. Even unfinished this monument is something great to view at.

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This channel is such a joy to watch.

[@epicdaniel508]

Amazing video. Excited to see what you do with this channel

[@jeffreymedina9261]

If North Korea ever surrenders and opens its doors to travel destinations, it will be the biggest and most interesting country to explore in the future. The amount of mysteries and history hidden from the world for so long will be exposed and brought to light. The citizens there would become so new to the world outside their country. That would be insane and I hope the peninsula of Korea can unite again in harmony

[@iggmeister4137]

Me too brother

[@yinyangsaladgang8789]

Surrenders? To who exactly? You can travel there they do take tourists, but obviously it's an orchestrated tour you're not really free to travel within the country.

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Nice video and very good quality!

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Thats the longest time ive ever listened to someone call someone broke

[@Douglas_413]

Just found this channel and I’m stunned by the quality they are full on documentaries and I love the “own opinion” thing so it’s not taken as a fact

[@you-got-reported-fam3445]

I was about to skip this one because I already knew a lot about the hotel, and tbh I didn't learn anything new. However I did appreciate what you did with 'Own Opinion', and I think it's something other creators should do.

[@jezusbloodie]

It truly is a monument for the ages. A dark and sad one, but monumental nevertheless. It will be glorious to see it crumble, hopefully through revolution

[@enterchannelname5953]

The Ryugyong Hotel or Yu-Kyung Hotel don’t know where you got tower of doom from. Is a 330 meter super-tall skyscraper in Pyongyang. Meant to be the tallest hotel on earth and for the Olympics but they where never held in North Korea and the Arduous March famine halted the construction to feed the people. After the construction it stayed a concrete shell until glass was put on it and recently they must of added floors because I’ve seen numerous people go to the top of it.

[@Mike-Bell]

Concrete buildings dont collapse because they lack a supporting steel structure. The concrete is the primary structure. Your statement makes no sense.

[@Skillseboy1]

Imagine that's not a hotel but a prison. A prison everyone in the capital is able to see.

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

That'd be scary

[@kgrfirdjy]

😮I could totally see that and think the whole situation seems like a creepy hell on earth..... I mean excellent and perfect in all ways, all praise to Dear Leader! 😂

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Nothing like drinking a cup of coffee when watching fern

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I have seen the video and called my uncle to watch it. My uncle called my nephew and my nephew came with my niece. We watched together. We decided to buy a projector and called the entire community. We are actually watching and all our lives has improved.

[@SamuraiPie8111]

It's not really a "hotel", it's a massive defensive emplacement. Its made of solid concrete. It's a giant bunker.

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[@handsomeblackman255]

A hotel for who?????

[@trickshotz8918]

Damn…

[@HeppelhopV5]

For Kim imo

[@notroll1279]

Either for foreign visitors paying hard currency - or as barracks for the city's party elite - similar to Ceausescu's Palace of the People that was designed as an easy to control golden cage for the upper mandarins....

[@Kalvinjj]

This building will never look like anything other than the best supervillain base ever to me. If Kim Jong Un doesn't visit it only a weekly basis to wear a feet long cape with extra tall neck, red on the inside and black outside of course, to laugh maniacally while drinking expensive whine with a white cat in his lap, I'll be very disappointed.

[@SYNTAXRS3]

The production and visuals are really good and engaging. Sweet video

[@johncase1353]

Of course the hotel isn't structurally sound since they used the bones of children instead of rebar.

[@chipsboy7360]

We have a tower in Macau called Macau tower that is taller than this but it is just a tower and only the top has stuff…it also has a restaurant on the top that rotates too

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[@Kalimbaba99]

Already watched in german :)

[@Mrf2-s4n]

Quite insightful thanks for this informative content

[@mastercng]

You can check in anytime you like, but you can never go.

[@Zetornator]

Since i wanted to comment to push this video i had to point out...at 2:38 was just me thinking the black colour should have been the sea and the grey should have been land? (Not looking for hate comments, just asking if i was the only one who got confused with this illusion)

[@mamtajkas]

yes, it confused me too

[@Monix_7]

Where do you get your video ideas from?

[@Better_Clean_Than_Green]

Dunno but this video is translated from the same video on the channel Simplicissimus led by the same guys (I think)

[@d.b.cooper1]

This is a basic af idea that's had yearly same old articles on it for over a decade now. P.s. most youtube content is via mainstream articles, although i liked this channel before cause dug into niche areas, this isn't their finest work sadly

[@Monix_7]

@@d.b.cooper1 so all their content is from news articles?

[@coall5002]

Nice to see this Channel grow :)

[@thebig12conference73]

It’s funny that they try to build the worlds tallest hotel and nobody is even there and can visit it

[@solootto]

Straight out of star wars

[@ROWTONE]

just want to say that the sound design/fx in this video are great. shoutout the editor who did em!

[@josephmichaeldaniels555]

This channel provides the best info style animations on the internet

[@christianklein5774]

I don't see any problems with the statics - metal ring on each floor and deep bored piles closed on the sides along the foundation, as well as the supports, it has been standing for a long time and is still there, I think.

[@gamingodriscoll5714]

Great video. Something about that buildings design kinda creeps me out. Anyone else?

[@tonyhill1264]

Imagine if this regime just cared for its people and provides food...

[@All-about-everything]

Imagine spending a billion dollars on a piece of garbage

[@jameshepburn4631]

Like George Soros giving that much to the Biden-Harris agenda.

[@TheBirdyyeses]

It is revisionism to suggest that South Korea quickly developed into the democracy we know today. In fact, the South was a brutal dictatorship-arguably worse than North Korea-until nearly the 1990s.

[@shapeoperator]

You added the word "quickly" in there. The video says "as a result, SK ultimately develops into a democracy", which strictly speaking does not even presume that this was the US's intent.

[@TheBirdyyeses]

@@shapeoperator My qualm was not whether or not the US ultimately intended for the South to become a Western-style democracy. I’m not sure they care so much about the political system so long as it remains a vassal state to the US. My problem is that this video essentially implies that the brutal, authoritarian North went to war with the democratic South when, in reality, the South was also under the control of a repressive dictatorship.

[@shapeoperator]

@@TheBirdyyeses there is nothing in this video saying the authoritarian North went to war with the democratic South. I quoted the relevant passage verbatim. Your reaction was one of reflexive "anti-Imperialism", which is fine as far as it goes, but is not responsive to the content of the video.

[@TheBirdyyeses]

@@shapeoperator “Korea is divided by the victorious powers into two occupation zones. The South is occupied by the United States, the North, the Soviet Union. As a result, South Korea ultimately develops into a democracy… North Korea becomes a totalitarian state… The two countries become enemies. The conflict culminates in the Korean War in 1950.”

[@shapeoperator]

@@TheBirdyyeses yes. That is what I quoted. "Ultimately" means eventually, not necessarily before the conflict. Plus, the much later dated footage played at that moment makes it very hard for you to argue they are talking about a "quick" transformation as you suggested.

[@1VIP1daniel1VIP1]

North Korea is a perfect counter argument to „Russia is so great and USA is so bad“. Well, just compare the 2 half’s for yourself and choose your side.

[@thecatlady-n3n]

What a disgraceful waste of money that instead could have gone into the country's infrastructure and people. There's something wrong with that man.

[@mohamedwael9730]

Quality is insane in this video👍🏻

[@Juschlan]

500k subs, nice. Keep growing guys!

[@Dr.W.Krueger]

That thing probably just houses a ton of telecommunication and surveillance equipment at this point.

[@cloudboy08]

This is really good journalism

[@user-pm9cs4py9q]

the biggest "f*ck you" to Kim Jon Un would be to just turn Burj Khalifa into a hotel

[@AttilatheThrilla]

Lmao.. They built that thinking people actually wanted to go to North Korea 🤣

[@timheersma4708]

An offer of free flights, luxury suites and buffet meals wouldn't entice me to consider staying in that place

[@paulreichelt1259]

I've watched a few North korean tourists videos lately.. and the one thing i see is all the huge building's but hardly any people and even the building look fake , the people walk around like background extras in a movie..

[@HeisenbergFam]

If fern mysteriously disappears after talking about North Korea, we will know why

[@somerandomniko]

Why is this guy in in every comment section

[@aaron32190]

for real @@somerandomniko

[@actually_zer]

@@somerandomnikopretty sure its a bot, or at least has some kind of program that lets them comment on tons of videos automatically

[@qhu3878]

​@@actually_zerim pretty sure its just multiple people doing a bit

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

Imagery over the practical essentials, such is the style of modern autocrats.

[@randyhankins6355]

I think he made a commercial, but he did mention North Korea for a minute

[@tropicaxv5456]

Looks Like Darth Vader's Castle from Rogue One

[@trippy_7416]

This channel is top tier

[@linggiman]

Informative stuff dude

[@mojorocketman]

Considering there's little openness to foreign visitors and extreme poverty among locals, there's no real incentive or logic to complete a hotel in country few people are allowed to or even want to visit.

[@vincentsmith4259]

That's probably why they have power outages all the time when they show that crap on the building

[@MasterKenfucius]

That hotel became a symbol of "NORTH KOREA IS NOT VERY SMART"... hey... more power to them.

[@Manuqtix.Manuqtix]

North Korea is a place of ruin and despair. Ruled by an evil dictator.

[@MrDingus19]

It looks like one of those pyramid ministries from 1984

[@simongoller2504]

Thats the third time that i watch this video, but i cannot stop cause your channels deserve more attention

[@commanderbristle]

Ridiculous and just sad that the north side can't come to an agreement with its sister south side on living peacefully and coexistent. Just sad 😢

[@jambonavecdubeurre]

Great and very interesting video ! Just a small mistake you made : you said the Eiffel Tower is 300m when it's actually 330m 😁

[@maximilian_k.2453]

Depends on what you measure. Architectual height is 300. Height to the tip of the tower is 330. Top floor is at 276m.

[@KimYoungUn69]

@@maximilian_k.2453man u bored

[@genocyber4842]

Bro started a project in survival mode and didnt bother finishing the inside

[@GWCBFan]

You know you chose the wrong option in the choose uyour own adventure book when you came to a place called the hotel of doom

[@Whykickamoocow]

Its Kim DumSon's super weapon. Every villian has 1. 😂😂😂😂

[@Joey-ct8bm]

Imagine you've to tell Kim Il Sung that the hotel build is going to be delayed.

[@toidIllorTAmI]

Funny how this is supposed to show what a great country they are when half of it is abandoned, its built like tofu structures, and they decorate it as a facade instead of actually fixing it or make use of it.

[@sandboy5880]

- "Why North Korea is hiding this hotel" - "This is the tallest building in North Korea" ??? So are they hiding it or not?

[@maryann2600]

Great video. Thank you.

[@FATHOLLYWOODB123]

I have this weird idea that Kim Jong-un will eventually turn it into his new headquarters and the cone on the top will be his main office hahaha

[@Krafft-Ebing]

To say South Korea became a democracy after the division of Korea occurred is a blatant lie, it had been subject to a viciously oppressive and exploitative dictatorship. The DPRK also enjoyed far greater socioeconomic prosperity for many years - this is a fact acknowledged by Western historians.

[@shapeoperator]

You are not portraying the video accurately. 2:42 says "as a result, SK ultimately develops into a democracy". You can dispute that claim, but it is distinct from the one you are responding to.

[@ethansmith4504]

Though there was a “dictatorship” on the local and regional level democratic institutions were in place so your claim is a blatant lie

[@benjaminlaney3160]

Fern is the New JCS criminal psychology 🔥🔥

[@JamesDeanMichael80]

I don't know if I like this hotel. I think it does not suit the surrounding landscape and is too futuristic but has some appeal, I kind of wished they finished it. As for hiding it, they just turned it into the worlds most interesting shaped TV