'Hotel of Doom' has never hosted a single guest..

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'Hotel of Doom' has never hosted a single guest..

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You've heard of ghost cities in China..

Guess what country?

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Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea, is the tallest unoccupied building in the world. Construction on the “Hotel of Doom” began in 1987 and has stopped and started several times over three decades due to North Korea’s economic woes. For now, one side of the 1,080-foot building has been outfitted with LED screens used for propaganda light shows.

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The Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea, in 1990.

The hotel reached its full height in 1992, but the inside was never completed. The Ryugyong Hotel is 105 stories tall and is sometimes referred to as the 105 Building. To this day, it has never hosted a single guest.

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Ongoing construction of the Ryugyong Hotel in 2010.

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The Ryugyong Hotel seen from a road outside Pyongyang in 2011.

At the very top of the building, an eight-story cone-shaped section was supposed to feature revolving restaurants. It remains empty, like the rest of the hotel.
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More external work began on the hotel in 2008 with the installation of glass panels over its entire surface.
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It would cost an estimated $US2 billion to finally finish the Ryugyong Hotel, according to Reuters. North Korea’s gross domestic product is around $US40 billion, according to the CIA’s World Factbook. That makes the cost of finishing the building around 5% of the country’s entire GDP.

In the meantime, North Korea has found other uses for the building. Pyongyang celebrated May Day in 2009 with a fireworks display framing the Ryugyong Hotel.
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It also provides a backdrop for propaganda messages made up of over 100,000 LED screens.
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The building itself still doesn’t have electricity, and there’s no expected completion date, but there have been new signs of construction progress.
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https://www.businessinsider.com.au/aban ... os-2019-11
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