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A new restaurant in Pyongyang is drawing attention for serving foie gras and Korean hansik under one roof — an unusual pairing in North Korea that signals a push to attract wealthy locals and foreign ...
Pyongyang's pyramid-shaped Ryugyong Hotel, which poetically enough was built with some help from Egyptians, is one of the world's strangest landmarks and most conspicuous construction-project fails.
Dreamt up in the 1980s as a show of North Korea's Cold War might, the Ryugyong Hotel has never, even briefly, opened its doors. Instead, it's been towering above North Korean capital Pyongyang for ...
Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea, is one of the tallest unoccupied buildings in the world. Construction on the "Hotel of Doom" began in 1987 and has stopped and started several times. One side ...
North Korea’s £2bn ghost town 'Hotel of Doom' with 105 floors which all lie empty At 1,080 feet high, the Ryugyong Hotel is one of the world's tallest unoccupied buildings.
The Ryugyong Hotel towers up from the centre of Pyongyang in North Korea, unfinished 35 years after work on it began in a sign of the country's ambition and hubris ...
It is North Korea's empty and embarrassingly visable project, the futuristic but failed Ryugyong Hotel that juts skyward in the centre of the capital Pyongyang.
In 1987, ground was broken on a grand new hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea.