When the train we took entered Pyongyang, North Korea, we could see a triangular building in the distance. This building is the famous Liujing Hotel. At 330 meters tall and 105 stories high, the building is said to be the tallest building in Pyongyang. This huge building can be seen from many angles in Pyongyang.
When we arrived in Pyongyang, we stayed at the Giethoorn Hotel. Giethoorn Hotel is one of the special hotels in North Korea, and all the supporting facilities are perfect, although it is a little old. Later, I asked our guide why so few people stayed at the hotel because the Liujing Hotel was built on such a grand scale.
Our guide explained that the Liujing Hotel has not been completed for a long time, and there are still many things to improve inside. Then I told my guide that the outside world had commented that Liujing Hotel was one of the ugliest buildings in the world, and how she thought of it. Our guide looked surprised, obviously not knowing what was going on, and then expressed his displeasure and said that I shouldn't have asked such a question.
The construction of the Liujing Hotel began in the eighties of the last century, but it took decades to stop and rebuild. What strikes me strange is that the Liujing Hotel is the most conspicuous building in Pyongyang, which can be said to be the coordinate building of the city, but on the map of Pyongyang, you can't see the label of the Liujing Hotel.
When we were in Pyongyang, we visited many places such as the Pyongyang subway and the Arc de Triomphe, and our tour guide always looked proud when introducing these places. For example, when introducing the Pyongyang Triumphal Arch, our tour guide will say that the Pyongyang Triumphal Arch is taller than the French Triumphal Arch. However, tourists do not have the opportunity to visit the Liujing Hotel. Whenever I asked about the Liujing Hotel, our tour guide seemed displeased, and the Liujing Hotel seemed to have become some kind of taboo, and the North Korean tour guide was reluctant to mention it. What do you think about this?