Why North Korea Is Hiding This Hotel

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8 ай бұрын

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There is a gigantic, mysterious hotel in North Korea that has been empty for more than 30 years. What is the 'Hotel of Doom' all about? Will it ever welcome a guest?
Original (in German): • Das verfluchte Hotel i...
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@fern-tv 8 ай бұрын

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@epicdaniel508 8 ай бұрын

Yes

@adithvemireddy5879 8 ай бұрын

Nicee

@Bot-sw1sf 8 ай бұрын

got it

@_-LeChaos-_ 8 ай бұрын

Sureeee

@nathangamble125 8 ай бұрын

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.

@SlushGoblin 8 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

Well said. I totally agree.

@acey457 8 ай бұрын

ask miss information if she has any advice for you 🤔

@mondsgesandter 8 ай бұрын

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 KZfaq section of our state media

@anuclitz 8 ай бұрын

A Indian youtuber Dhruv rathee does that

@gscgaming. 8 ай бұрын

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.

@FOG703 8 ай бұрын

They have a past ;) @simplicissimus @romulushoog

@konstantink07 8 ай бұрын

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

@juniorwmg 8 ай бұрын

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

@LasseHelbling 8 ай бұрын

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

@konstantink07 8 ай бұрын

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

@thedriverisliterallyme5331 8 ай бұрын

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

@reminiscer15 3 ай бұрын

That would be funny.

@someweirdstuff1256 2 ай бұрын

kim jong un: 😡😡😡😡😡😡🛌🛌🛌🛌🛌💤💤💤💤💤💤

@holymess 2 ай бұрын

that would piss Magin Buu

@oreziopancrazio3685 Ай бұрын

@HeppelhopV5 Ай бұрын

@@holymess what

@OhhRuse 7 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

LOL

@certifiedlevi 7 күн бұрын

THAT is just the incarnation of pettiness 😭😭

@maty6799 2 күн бұрын

Muy buena anécdota!!!

@thepoleontheroad 8 ай бұрын

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 5 ай бұрын

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.

@HooLeePhucingSheet 4 ай бұрын

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.

@thesalad3 8 ай бұрын

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

@koharumi1 8 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

@@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 4 ай бұрын

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

@tekboi1984 2 ай бұрын

@@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 2 ай бұрын

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

@NeiZaMo 8 ай бұрын

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.

8 ай бұрын

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

@knot289 6 ай бұрын

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 4 ай бұрын

US helped. Don’t lie

@ShaggyRogers1 Ай бұрын

@@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 26 күн бұрын

@@zayzay4405he is not lying, you are just ignorant

@tomfoolery3847 8 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

@@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 8 ай бұрын

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

@travelleryu 7 ай бұрын

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 7 ай бұрын

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.

@guest_4416 8 ай бұрын

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.

@Thegoldenaerobar2 8 ай бұрын

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

@AwokenEntertainment 8 ай бұрын

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

@davidondrejek8947 8 ай бұрын

this channel will have 10M subs soon, mark my words

@teamok1025 7 ай бұрын

YES

@woe_ 8 ай бұрын

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

@sorenliden 8 ай бұрын

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 7 ай бұрын

No he doesnt, this sucker is just stealing, they do it: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f51_f6eo3autoWw.html

@clysm 8 ай бұрын

incredible production, round of applause! 👏

@tuams 8 ай бұрын

Such a great channel you are! High level production and story telling!

@xDefender11 8 ай бұрын

Love your videos! Subscribed since the pilot hijacking video and great to see the great content is continuing

@hugosommer5328 8 ай бұрын

Another Simplicissimus original

@xFACTOR2pro 8 ай бұрын

Happens when They are Partners 😂

@philippfahr3083 8 ай бұрын

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

@hugosommer5328 8 ай бұрын

yes i know, it was not a prejudice

@sentosaco 8 ай бұрын

Amazingly interesting content and such elegant animations.

@maxismyidol 8 ай бұрын

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

@epicdaniel508 8 ай бұрын

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

@EshuMarneedi 8 ай бұрын

This channel is such a joy to watch.

@albevanhanoy 8 ай бұрын

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???"

@vonunterberg4313 8 ай бұрын

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

@YogeshYogesh-mj1ee 7 ай бұрын

Hello friends

@HeppelhopV5 Ай бұрын

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

@TheEndWillShockYou 8 ай бұрын

Nice video and very good quality!

@pablogrenfell7919 8 ай бұрын

Even the sponsors are quali , amazing job guys

@hyperteleXii 8 ай бұрын

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

@coltizz 8 ай бұрын

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

@racerluke5412 8 ай бұрын

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.

@handsomeblackman255 7 ай бұрын

A hotel for who?????

@trickshotz8918 Ай бұрын

Damn…

@HeppelhopV5 Ай бұрын

For Kim imo

@SYNTAXRS3 8 ай бұрын

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

@KizzMyAbs 7 ай бұрын

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

@mehrdadfr1556 4 ай бұрын

Quite insightful thanks for this informative content

@coall5002 8 ай бұрын

Nice to see this Channel grow :)

@josephmichaeldaniels555 8 ай бұрын

This channel provides the best info style animations on the internet

@Lyn-hz6ew 7 ай бұрын

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

@ROWTONE Ай бұрын

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

@maryann2600 7 ай бұрын

Great video. Thank you.

@TrePryorRealtor 8 ай бұрын

fern videos are so well made!

@Juschlan 8 ай бұрын

500k subs, nice. Keep growing guys!

@enterchannelname5953 Ай бұрын

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.

@snarflatful 5 ай бұрын

This would have been a great 3 minute story.

@linggiman 7 ай бұрын

Informative stuff dude

@The-DO 8 ай бұрын

fern and IMPERIAL are 2 very underrated channels

@mohamedwael9730 8 ай бұрын

Quality is insane in this video👍🏻

@Kalimbaba99 8 ай бұрын

Already watched in german :)

@chipsboy7360 7 ай бұрын

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

@you-got-reported-fam3445 8 ай бұрын

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.

@cloudboy08 8 ай бұрын

This is really good journalism

@XxcammiexX 8 ай бұрын

Nothing like drinking a cup of coffee when watching fern

@nicholeannjeremy621 7 ай бұрын

Brand new here. The "well dones" have it, thanks. World news and intrest is v.i.p. I always feel one do the research then make an educated opinion or impactive facts. Much appreciated. Miles Dei.

@mastercng 8 ай бұрын

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

@give_me_my_nick_back 4 ай бұрын

If they ever get any regime change it would be cool to perhaps split it in 3 and use each wing separately for offices, private apartments and a hotel or many other uses

@jezusbloodie 8 ай бұрын

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

@brofisr1368 8 ай бұрын

Fern can talk about anything and still watch the video

@guibibeau 8 ай бұрын

Beautiful video. What would be a good tutorial to learn how to do such style of animations?

@trippy_7416 8 ай бұрын

This channel is top tier

@johncheetham4607 2 ай бұрын

One of the opening lines 'what would it cost, for you to stay at the hotel'! Probably with your life, as it has no windows.

@enterchannelname5953 Ай бұрын

Bro forgot South Korea was a dictatorship until the 1990s and only became richer than North Korea in the 1990s.

@johncase1353 7 ай бұрын

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

@Simongenial 8 ай бұрын

I love the detailed animations

@Skillseboy1 8 ай бұрын

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

@MASTEROFEVIL 7 ай бұрын

That'd be scary

@ooommm4024 5 ай бұрын

😮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! 😂

@simongoller2504 8 ай бұрын

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

@christianklein5774 7 ай бұрын

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.

@j00500hall 8 ай бұрын

Have loved everything since subscribing but feeling spoilt tonight, North Korean content is a favourite of mine. I wish this one was longer, such a fascinating country, please include them more. I love your channel!

@Aeruza 8 ай бұрын

great video!

@napoleonibonaparte7198 8 ай бұрын

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

@likhis4668 8 ай бұрын

I would love it, if you would make a video about black rock and investment companies in general. I think its a really interesting topic

@vincentsmith4259 4 ай бұрын

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

@FATHOLLYWOODB123 Ай бұрын

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

@costachibbonta5436 4 ай бұрын

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.

@user-pm9cs4py9q 4 ай бұрын

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

@chrisogrady28 4 ай бұрын

It's hilarious how much this is an Anime antagonist's business HQ/evil base

@tgz39j4ndywmm7 8 ай бұрын

How much longer do you plan to upload translated videos from Simplicissimus? Some original content would be nice.

@123456789jameswhite 2 ай бұрын

A vice documentary recorded and stay in this hotel at some point - some floors are definitely furnished

@GWCBFan 7 ай бұрын

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

@CamTheWarlock 4 ай бұрын

There really was no point to building it besides egomania. For a hotel to work, it needs people. For people to come, you need things worth coming for. And for things worth coming for, you need a stable country, especially for a hotel that size. NK skips all that. They’re not stable in any way, and there’s nothing worth visiting for besides the impossibly restrictive tours and the novelty of being in arguably the worst country in the world. That tower was always doomed to fail, and I struggle to imagine that the elites in NK didn’t know this as well, though even if they did I doubt they’d want to contradict their leader.

@Kalvinjj 4 ай бұрын

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.

@rbk8505 5 ай бұрын

Great channel truly tells people whais really going on in the world. Thr wold is becoming a scary place now🙁

@gamingodriscoll5714 Ай бұрын

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

@r2com641 8 ай бұрын

in Azerbaijan, Baku theres restaurant like that in a TV tower, where it rotates as well, 310 meters ;-)

@Monix_7 8 ай бұрын

Where do you get your video ideas from?

@Better_Clean_Than_Green 8 ай бұрын

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

@d.b.cooper1 8 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

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

@PrivateMemo 8 ай бұрын

I'm sure this video is great. As much as fern videos always are. But how many more channels are gonna make videos on this damn hotel?

@Teyupume 8 ай бұрын

More than one. This video is also like some others here a remake from the german channel simplizissimus

@konstantink07 8 ай бұрын

@@Teyupumeyeah, this channel is a collaboration between Simplicissimus and Hoog

@Teyupume 8 ай бұрын

@@konstantink07 jep, I am following simply for a few years now and this expansion is really good

@commanderbristle Ай бұрын

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 😢

@paulreichelt1259 5 ай бұрын

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..

@mojorocketman Ай бұрын

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.

@Joey-ct8bm 2 ай бұрын

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

@tuurlievens 8 ай бұрын

@fern-tv Great video script and visuals. Unfortunately the audio seems to stutter/skip ahead (for example around 5:16). I've noticed the same issue in other of your videos and makes it quite annoying to listen to with headphones.

@jambonavecdubeurre 8 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

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

@KimYoungUn69 7 ай бұрын

@@maximilian_k.2453man u bored

@tonyhill1264 3 ай бұрын

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

@HeisenbergFam 8 ай бұрын

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

@somerandomniko 8 ай бұрын

Why is this guy in in every comment section

@aaron32190 8 ай бұрын

for real @@somerandomniko

@Zerschnetzler 8 ай бұрын

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

@qhu3878 8 ай бұрын

@@Zerschnetzlerim pretty sure its just multiple people doing a bit

@MrIwan18 Ай бұрын

Concrete over food for the people, great work!

@yasirshaikh8230 8 ай бұрын

Nice video 🎉

@ChairmanMeow1 7 ай бұрын

Ironically it does look pretty cool now that it finally has the facade on it.

@ninakoch1799 8 ай бұрын

love the „own opinion“ label! please keep that!

@MasterKenfucius 7 ай бұрын

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

@Manuqtix.Manuqtix 7 ай бұрын

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

@QuakiThatRoblox_Dev 6 ай бұрын

im from The german and watches years You and David Finally got an English Internitional Channel , Good luck my German friends Have an Good time Bye funk 1 Year. Respect Rook