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The Hidden Floor of North Korea's Yanggakdo Hotel
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- čas přidán 19. 09. 2015
- Join us as we attempt to get to the Hidden Floor (5th floor) of the Yanggakdo Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea. Allegedly, this is the floor where all room surveillance takes place.
"The elevator is slow"
"Then, use the elevator!"
lmao
I almost feel bad for her, Seems like she just wanted to be like "jesus christ, i'm trying to possibly save your life, just get back in the elevator before the Most Round Leader decides to go full-"Otto" on your brain too".I hope she didn't get in any trouble for it happening while she was there.
Most Supreme Leader*
Democractic Peoples Republic of Korea Most Stupid Leader*
Different elevator, as you can tell the second one they went in had a window
""Here we are safe. Here we are free" ~Joo Dee
Why do tourists in North Korea always seem so strange? Oh yeah b/c they decided to take a vacation to North Korea 👀
I mean they’re already weird. Who vacations in North Korea? I guess those that want to support the Kim regime since all the money goes to them and not the starving citizens.
I’d like to go sometime, but not for a holiday per se.. they have a language exchange programme and I’m interested to learn the differences between north and south dialects. Asian languages are my major of study though..
@@unistudent4002 nerd
@@bethm5791 i will travel to North Korea so shut the fuck up South Korean fan
@@bethm5791 what better way to help the people than go there and make videos documenting what the country is truly like? When we have these sorts of videos we can share them with people so everyone can learn about the issues than there is at least the potential for a difference to be made.
Creepy to watch this after what happened to Otto Warmbier.
I'm very sorry for the death of a young man but in some places one must be very careful.
Rip Otto Warmbier but he's a idiot for breaking the rules. How careless can somebody be in north korea.
@KD You are obviously trolling, but come now. Bait needs to be better than this. You DO know NK's worse enemy, South Korea is part of Asian too, right? You know another country NK hates? Japan. Also Asian. They jerk offs here got lucky and they took a big risk going into a shithole like North Korea.
that name otto is like a celebrities name in the usa.
@@jarrodyuki7081 Not really. 99% of people do not even know who he was. Only those that follow world news (a very small minority) actually know about him and why his death was so important for showing just how shit and monstrous North Korea is.
those were probably the actors that they were gonna see the next day pretending to buy groceries at their stores
Reminds me of the Truman Show.
AT LEAST NK HAS A LOT OF ACTING JOBS!!!!
eyebal Too bad they don't get paid.
Lmaooo I love this comment
Levi They don't get executed that's a pretty descent earning wage in my opinion
The girl on the 7th floor was our tour guide when I visited last September...!
Crazy! Probably a staff-only floor.
She's hot!
you forgot the T, she's a Thot.
me too i went to DPRK before and shes our tour guide
How was the trip?
elevator is better than prison.
+Dies Alone more better than prison!
Remember in The Truman Show when Truman goes into the break room in the bank and sees the actors. This is the same thing.
I believe this is like a lobby BEFORE the real forbidden floors... that's why there were only 2 women, kindly suggesting them to return to the elevator, instead of armed guards.
These ladies probably only had their brake in an otherwise unused part of the hotel. I bet they were worried too
I'm amazed you didn't get charged with espionage or something. I watched a bunch of your videos and I have to say, you're a braver soul than I am. Thanks for risking your ass all the same! There's some great footage in your channel.
+Threetails Thanks! Glad to hear you enjoyed the videos!
+Threetails He was probably smart and posted them after he was back home and out of N. Korea.
+PHOTOTRISTAN Yup, I posted these videos after I got back home
+Erick Tseng they didn't ask to to go over film or anything? Maybe not you, but did they go through any of your friends phones/cameras??
+Taylor Buckley Thankfully, none of our cameras or hard drives were searched on the way out of the country.
If I went to north korea, I'd be fucking stepping around egg shells. Ya'll have got some balls.
+Jack Wade Lmfaooooo Are you this guys Mom lmaooooo?
That's a good plan. These guys could have ended up like Otto Warmbier.
@@EndohMiharu Otto Warmbier had the secret code to go to the 5th floor of that very hotel that was given to him by some spy. The 5th floor is used for government offices and is not accessible and forbidden to the public. Warmbier went to that floor late at night and ripped a slogan with the Generalissimo's name in it that he stole. Surveillance cameras caught him and authorities knew he had done that but didn't arrest him that night and let him finish his trip in north korea to see if he had planned further acts against the state or if he felt guilt and returned the stolen artifact before leaving the country. When he went to the airport they searched his luggage and found the piece he stole and he was arrested and not allowed to leave North Korea and was condemned to 15 years of forced labor. Usually people are released after 2 years of good conduct. Warmbier was an adept wrestler and he probably had suffered from head concussions in the Usa as he was taking headache medicine already coming to Korea. During his prison sentence he took too many and demanded more and fell into a coma. When he returned to Usa the parents refused an autopsy because they knew he had head concussions prior to going to Korea and that revealing it would expose the false story of him being tortured.
@@goognamgoognw6637what is the weather like in Pyongyang today?
@@goognamgoognw6637 You do not use CZcams like a normal person, where are you located? You defend North Korea and also have strange habits.
Any foreigner, especially American, takes a huge risk going to this country. You are very brave to get all of this footage. I would have been afraid to even step one foot out of my hotel room, let alone film anything around me!
specially they are tenth to be sticking their noses eveywhere hich act like spy and sabatours .
As a Swiss citizen, you are safe if you don‘t do any s**t there. I guess these guards often see people who attempt this, they probably don‘t want to cause trouble themselves.
Just breathing or even blinking can get you in trouble.
@Bones No it's because arrogance and despicable self-righteousness is built into united-statian society that United statian people don't realize how offensive they are when they travel in any part of the world. They did not learn proper proper rules of respect and conduct of foreign cultures and are mislead by the Usa govt itself.
It’s not that dangerous lol
she literally said "service floor" 0:52
damn
Oh, thank you. I couldn't get what she was whispering... that's correct, she seemd scared, and she seems to be warning those idiots too!
@@gabrielesolletico518 hahaha
or maybe Servers floor? Like for the restaurant employees..
@@gabrielesolletico518 calm down
I was scared for you guys watching this. Crazy stuff.
Agreed. Erick is super brave!
surprised that they werent given the warm beer treatment
@@ailinos No very ignorant!!.
I was scared of those 1D10T1C American loud tourists.
You were on Floor 7. The hidden floor is the 5th Floor.
Pretty sure that’s why they were lookin for the steps to get downstairs from the 7th floor, maybe the elevator doesn’t allow you to get to the 5th floor
There are many floors you’re not allowed on though
@@rachelcookie321 i wonder why 🤔
@@jeromecastro3051 probably has some dead bodies or some shit
They're both hidden floors
0:48 look at the woman who walks into the elevator. She looks absolutely petrified when she sees them.
No she didn’t tf
she looked quite calm to me
It would be pretty surprising to encounter a group of tourists in a country where tourists are fairly rare.
Yeah, that split second before she pops off screen was definitely an “Aw shit” kinda look.
1:15 old mate is lucky that he didn't get Otto Warmbiered for being critical of the speed of the hotel lifts.
Otto must have seen this video on his hotel room. I will deff try that..they will just send you away if you are seen. no problem
When you find the hidden developer’s room that shows how the game was made
My mind is going straight to fallout 76, when players found a glitch to get into some room that had all the weapons in the game just laying on the table, including some that weren't available to players yet....
Imagine THAT happening lol
looked like a floor where employees live/rest. either case, a foreigner would not be welcome among them since if something happens, its their heads first
won't be laughing in the court when you u get life in prison
Spongecake Squareshoes u are so ignorant Jesus christ
"Life" in a NK prison thankfully is quite short as most are executed or die of horrible disease (ie Otto) in a short time. Small comforts I suppose...
It's like that part in the Truman Show where he sees behind the elevator set and finds a extras milling about.
Just remember... . Allow Under The 12 Peoples. Always remember.
The hidden floor can't be accessed by elevator (5th floor) and can only be accessed by stairs.
Yep, I'd have imagined lift access has been removed by now.
The elevator will be more better.
wwemario12345 how many foreign languages do you speak?
None
wwemario12345 yeah, more better than 5 years hard labor lol.
0:48
You guys had accidentally nailed the elevator game trying to find this floor and didn't realise it! XD
LOL EXACTLY! :D
I'd imagine the staff access the fifth floor via a hidden service elevator or secret back stairs. I used to work in an office complex in the UK where there were two executive floors that could *only* (aside from fire escape routes) be reached by a special elevator that went direct and to nowhere else. It had separate and incompatible authorisation and access management to the rest of the estate. If you didn't know how to get there and/or didn't have the correct access, you weren't getting there unless escorted. Simple as that.
Chances are the fifth floor of this hotel is now sealed to those unauthorised.
Also that 'waitress' who sent you back to the lift is a beautiful woman.
Yeah the NK gov goes around taking young girls from families and picks the pretty ones for tourist jobs 😊
They are hired and paid. Not taken forcefully to work. But yes definitely the good looking ones have more advantages to find work
To tell you the truth my dad worked as night receptionist in an hotel here in Abano Terme, Italy, and he was the only dependent in hotel at night. Some nights I went to work with him and the hotel was so deserted and empty. Nobody in the hallways, the hotel looked like empty. It was quite creepy. Here instead you get off the elevator and magically the waitress is right there to send you out. I'd never thought an hotel full of people would look more creepy to me than an empty one
Guess you haven't watched The Shining then :P
even that women inthat dark place just sitting there makes me questins of what are they exactlydoing here
Probably rehearsing for the next act
maybe they were staff, taking a break, just chilling
to be honest, i impressed with you guys filming here and there. i wouldn't even set a foot in north korea considering what happened to otto.
Americans aren’t allowed to anymore. Honesty americans never should have been allowed to travel there in the first place.
this was uploaded in september 2015, otto went to NK in december 2015. So it was before otto
@@leerogish7223Well yeah, because people in this country have a HUGE entitlement issue and think the whole universe revolves around them.
@@batbutonfire It’s VERY dangerous and reckless for Americans to enter countries like North Korea Russia or Iran where they are at extreme risk for wrongful arrest by the government hoping to use them as political bargaining chips. Just ask Brittney griner.
@@leerogish7223 do you mean the weed smoker that got exchanged for a weapon merchant?
In the fifth floor videos I've seen, they got there by pushing the 4 and 6 buttons simultaneously. However, from this video it looks like they've replaced the button panel since then, so I don't know if that will work now.
I'm starting to think it's like a funhouse lol
"Why having fun?"
-Willy wonka
@@Orlandoprivatetransportation brilliant movie
Kim Jong Fun
Was a bit confused at first, but it seems they are on floor 7 and then making an excuse to use stairs because you reach the 5th floor via stairs. That's at least what I gathered. Cool video, the snarky jokes made it great.
That girl was fast acting! My guess is that people that get off on the 7th floor are not allowed to access other floors.. that is why you went to the first floor
Those guys have balls to do that, though you do hear the woman entering the lift at 0:54 saying service floor
This is some crazy ass shit "Elevator is better than prison" hahahah
The girl that came into the elevator said "service floor" I think.
allow under the 12 peoples. LOL
What is allowed under us?????
Or are people younger than 12 years old the only ones who are allowed to use it
@@jesperhangeraas9939 It means 12 is the max capacity the elevator can hold
I think they just accommodate the employees in the empty floors. Such a weird contrast between the locals living there and the tourists (you guys) fooling around, but I do have to say that that lobby of the hotel looks really nice actually.
Thanks for making these videos
I agree. It's totally normal for hotels to have spare rooms set aside for staff and bear in mind this is North Korea - they may live there permanently.
The floor with the beautiful 'waitress' was likely staff accommodation which would be off limits to the public.
In another video there is a room on that floor with a big rack. Used probably for surveillance. It's the kind of hotel that they would tap the rooms of (like in all secretive Dictatorship)
the look of fear as you walked out of the lift 😂😂
I stayed there when I went to North Korea ten years ago, they had a casino at the basement
+闪闪红星 Yeah casino/bowling alley/karaokee room
Casino is rip because a worker was killed (Chinese)
Casino like in black jack , slots , etc ? Do they give Americans their money if they win or kidnap them anyways ?
If you win the payoff is they let you leave
Yeah and murder room at 13 floor
LOL he says "allegedly, 5th floor is where all room surveillance takes place." Dude in North Korea, total surveillance takes place on ALL floors.
What labor camp were you assigned to?
You guys got "Expressed" to the Lobby. lmao
I would expect no different when loudly asking someone where the stairs were after you got off an elevator hahaha
Personally I wouldn’t want to risk life imprisonment over a midnight stroll. I also wouldn’t vacation in a country where their own citizens live in a perpetual state of fear year round.
The lady talking about the more better elevator looked a bit on-the-spot. Maybe this floor is for the 'guides'?
Allow under the 12 people's LOL
Actually there was no apostrophe, and the fact that you used one makes your English equally as abominable.
Ryan Armington wtf is funny about that? Try speaking Korean or any other language, that will be funny
SweBass you're right I'm sorry
not when it's an official sign, in a tourist hotel where staff speak English reg dumbass
Leave Mr Kim alone
This put that lady on the seventh floor in a bad situation
I would never be dumb enough to go to North Korea. If I did I would do nothing. No exploring, no mischief, I would keep to myself, no pictures or anything
Me either!! These men are brave
Ok you have balls of steel going on a floor off limits or anywhere in North Korea off limits for that matter! You literally risked your own life as well as that of the tour guides and hotel staff filming this!
I heard if you go to floor 5, they reward you with free accommodation for life at another place...
They are lucky nothing happened. I do wonder if they would have tried this if it had been after Otto's death though.
Dude I need to know what kind of mountain dew ya'll drank to do this.. This is crazy. I doubt that fucking building has the same number of floors as the elevator implies.
ever wonder wheres the idea of making "the truman show" movie ???
Sure it could be something nefarious typical of the hermitage regime, or it could also be a service floor not meant for guest or public occupation.
I personally know of 43 story building where the 15-16 and 30-31 floor are industrial floors dedicated to climate control systems AND with cross current channels meant to alleviate wind shear on the building. The floors are only accessible by the public elevators when those elevators are on fire department mode, and only accessible from the freight elevators with a specific key card.
I also know of another building where a parking structure takes up a majority of the first 9 floors and the 10th floor is a maintenance floor and only starting at 11 does the entire building become devoted to office suites.
What also found have occurred is that entire floor was reserved for a specific group. Because of this it must remain accessible, but have a checkpoint to prevent unauthorized entry
exactly lmao, there is a shopping mall in my city where the 5th floor is for staff and administration, and you can only go there through the elevator since there are no escalators or stairs that lead to it. Most normal thing in the world, it isn't "tHe FlOoR tHaT sHoUlD nOt ExIsT!!!", it's just a floor restricted for staff
I used to work in an office complex in the UK. There was an executive suite which occupied two floors on one side of the building and that could *only* be reached by a specific dedicated lift, down some steps near the car park. It had its own access system and controls which was totally separate from the one used to access 'normal' areas.
Access was only available to those who worked there permanently and a very narrow set of highly trusted cleaning and security staff. Nobody else got up there unless specifically escorted.
And once you got to the executive suite it was again compartmentalised with more granular access controls. The finance director's PA couldn't just wander into the CEO's waiting area, for example. Even the CEO couldn't just walk into the Chairman's office either.
what type of camera were you using ? That was some really high quality video!
Honestly I think it might be a bit less mysterious than it seems. Also in the West hotels, office buildings and hospitals have inaccessible floors as they are for staff or storage and offer no utility for most people.
Also at my office there is a floor only a service elevator goes to and the stairs. It only has a couple of mailboxes and trash bins and staff like paper for the printers.
It is not inaccessible because you aren't allowed to go there, but simply because there is no reason anyone would want to go there.
Of course, in North Korea everything seems mysterious, and they are secretive about things for which there is no reason to keep them secret.
This is honestly pretty scary. You can just tell there is something that they really don’t want them to see or know about. Yikes…
Yeh... Something like them sitting around having a break...
You really think tourists could get off an elevator on a particular floor where something sinister is happening??
Honestly, it's simple, you'd disconnect the button to X floor, you'd block the entrances and exits to X floor with numerical locks or electronic locks and that'd be that.
"Allow under the 12 peoples" 😂😂😂 too funny
Allow no pictures anywhere anytime for anyone at any place . Understanding bad inglish could keep you from losing 100 pounds hard labor
This is what got Otto Warmbier in trouble, these dudes were lucky.
I believe this to be the same floor of the Yanggakdo Hotel that Otto allegedly stole the poster from.
Press 4 and 6 at the same time I heard
I recognize that girl who told you to take the elevator down from Aram Pan’s video. He’s I think a guy from Singapore who does food videos in North Korea
It’s kinda sad and funny at the same time that the rule “allow under 12 people” is writing only in English and Chinese, not in Hangul.
Didn't that lady say "service floor" as you were getting out of the elevator?
It's weird how you laugh considering they would kill you for this
*go to employee only floor*
*employee tells them to go to another floor*
omg we almost died guys. What an adventure
Someone rightly pointed out, at 52 seconds, the lady entering the lift says service floor. Nothing crazy i guess
They could have been charged with espionage for exiting the elevator on the wrong floor. Not kidding!
Thank goodness they didn't remove any posters
That was clearly the party floor and missed opportunities
The 6th floor is where they keep all the surveillance equipment.
Hey nerds, most buildings have a maintenance and security floor. It really isn't a weird thing. The 7th floor of a building on my campus in the US has no windows and the elevator skips it. The door to it on the staircase is locked. It's for maintenance. Not everything in NK is some crazy thing. Some, nay, most things are just normal.
Why 7th floor that's weard
7 is a lucky number they shouldnt skip it
0:48 That woman scared my so much.Now I'm laughing
It's not unusal for guest elevators to work like this in the West. Service elevators used by the staff stop at all floors. Guest elevators only stop at floors with guest facilities.
Were you trying to go to prison?
It's like Professor Oak waiting for you to be scolded for trying to use a bike indoors
You need to use the stairs to get to the 5th floor. Been there. Most of the monitors on the screens are broken and no one was there when I visited.
I'll take "Shit That Didn't Happen" for $500 please, Alex.
But what was the floor used for?
Administrative tasks. The floor is a meeting place for employees, is used for security and has some administration offices. @@van0tot100
Was probably where all the people who monitor the cameras that are in your rooms are located
It's like that scene in the trueman show where trueman goes to the hospital and sees a fake elevator with actors behind it
Yeah, just like the thirteenth floor is off limits in many American hotels
What really intrigues me, is that in Lebanon and Syria where the government provides only 12 hours of electricity a day (with the rest being provided by generators - the electricity goes off and back on after 5 seconds), 90% of citizens have 24/7 electricity. How can the whole of the DPRK, in PYONGYANG, not have enough to power the most prestigious hotels entirely, for a whole day?
It has improved a lot since then. Electricity in Pyongyang these days is actually very reliable and people aren't reporting any major issues anymore.
The whole Pyongyang blackout thing is a meme reflecting 20 years ago.
@halfbakedproductions7887 this video is not 20 years old.
You guys are crazy risking your lives like that
That girl on the 7th floor is pretty hot!
thats the floor where they run the north korean porn operations lol
I have Just subscribed to your channel because of these North Korean vídeoa of yours!
What was the worst thing it happen while you were staying there?
Hugs from Portugal!
Getting to the secret floor is easy. Just go on top the lift and drive it there.
The way you put on the camera strap was so FABULOUS!
When that Korean lady stepped onto the elevator, expression was like “WTF?!” LOL
Do they "explore" hotels like this in other countries, like going into staff-only areas and such? You would get yelled at and thrown out by security in any hotel.
The original backroom
Backrooms anyone??
How did you tape these? Did they allow you to video these?
+John kang I just filmed, and tried to be as discreet as possible.
+Erick Tseng you didn't seem very discreet. Did they freak out at all after this?
How does one able to visit NK? Is it hard for a regular Joe to get into NK? I would really love to go!!
+Bobby Myers I just fixed my Russian, Mongolian, Chinese and North Korean visa all at once and the North Korean one was actually the easiest.
That is weird! I always thought that only certain people were allowed to visit NK. Thanks for the info!!! I am going to check that out.
What kind of camera are you using to film this. becouse the quality of your videos are quite impressive.
+TheFlorian555 I shot this with a Sony RX100-M2
+TheFlorian555 I shot this with a Sony RX100-M2
+Erick Tseng Allright. Thanks for replying. i will search it up
This is the place for short guys to know what it feels like to be tall.
How are you allowed so much freedom to go where you want? This is so interesting 🤔
its like eric andre energy. It's so chaotic that they didn't prepare for it.
@@popcorn8153 ok, you clearly don't understand eric andre.
I would like to visit the Yanggakdo for the opportunity to purchase one of those special suits available from the 3rd floor tailor shop. Makes well for being presentable as a guest in the country, were such an opportunity available.
I wouldn’t be jumping into a North Korea elevator.
You should document if you are allowed to have a camera in a labor camp in North Korea.
What are they hiding in the secret floor?
0:42 im so confused. Pretty sure that's Chinese writing
It is
My guess is that there isn't a 5th floor because the 4th floor (the lobby in the video) is a much larger floor with a high ceiling that takes the space of about two regular floors. I have seen buildings with missing floors because some of the floors had very high ceilings.
Then they would still count the floors in order 1,2,3,4 and wouldn't skip a number
Everyone's a Gangsta
Till Kim Jong Un shows up there