North Korea's Rungrado: The Largest Stadium in the World
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
- Step aside, Michigan Football. The real Big House is in... North Korea?
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North Korea: builds largest stadium in the world.
Simon: Sideproject
Well to be fair its never turned a profit let alone broken even. I kinda value a project on its level of thought and finish. But i getcha
Xi visits and is given a show... "What dictators love"
No, in Czech republic we have bigger remnant communism. Strahovský stadion for 250 000 peoples 👌😂
hey
it prob does fit 150,000 people... i mean when your population is starving you can fit 2 to a seat...
No, it actually fits 15,000 “SEATS” not people.
The staving people aren’t the ones that are allowed in the stadium. It’s the true believers that get special dispensation.
@mrclassicsnior the problem is finding people who are not starving to fit in them
It would probably only fit 75,000 North Americans with how obese the population has become compared to the rest of the world. There are way too many that can't fit into one airplane seat.
150k North Koreans or 72k Americans. The seating is actually the exact same as the Superdome lol.
There is a European competitor: The Strahov stadium in Prague, that could once provide places for 210,000 to 250,000 spectators. Today, the capacity has been reduced to 56,000 seats, as the building is in a very bad condition. It was not built in the times of Cold War, but actually in the 1920ies and 1930ies, and is an open air stadium, which means it has no roof.
Fun fact: I once stood inside on the lawn, together with my school class, when we were sightseeing the (then) Chechoslovakia in the late 1970ies. From there, you could see the grandstands only like remote strips of the horizon. The floodlights though were clearly visible. They must have been gigantic.
I lived in Plzen and spent time in Praha often. I've seen this stadium but never been in it. I remember watching (is it Sokolov?) performance there in the 70's. It did remind me of the North Korean assemblies I've seen online. They were actually very good and fit looking. My mama's family came from eastern Slovakia and I loved living in Czechia twenty years ago. Both countries are so beautiful and I'd love to visit again. I still have family in both countries.
The Saltlake Stadium in Kolkata #India once before 2016 had Capacity of 250,000 but after 2017 FIFA under-17 & Under-23 WorldCup it's capacity decreased to 86,000
V Praze je největší
The city in north Korea reminds me if my old solo minecraft days.... when i would build giant towns and buildings and be the only 1 on to even see and be in them lol.. i would have suburbs, churches hospitals skyscrapers and i was the only 1 to experience it.
Simon: "i. as always am your host"
me: changes channel...yep. Changes chanel again..yep. Again..yep
I was there in 2010 for the Arirang Festival. That card flipping thing is massive and it's pretty impressive how flawless it all goes.
When you’ll be executed for making a mistake you have high motivation to be accurate.
Lol I was going to say the same thing but on a 2 year old comment someone beat me by 3 days
@@EnclaveOfficer1776 Ignorate comment. North Korea is bad, but that is not the way to get results even if you are evil. They simply have spent 1000s of hours training, because their government prioritized that pursuit and selected many young people to go down that path. If you practiced something everyday for years you would get pretty good at as well.
@@maknavickas whatever you say propaganda minister Chang.
@@EnclaveOfficer1776 Threatening death to a person or their family is a great way to insure loyalty, but its not the best way to get the best performance out of a person. People need to feel safe and secure in order to increase their skills and learn new techniques.
World's biggest stadium that can seat an entire medium-sized city at once = still not big enough for Megaprojects when an airplane is.
Sideproject Arecibo Observatory - Its back in the news and Hot because it just collapsed. Let's hear about it!
Just business blaze north ko re ha
Its definetly not a side project but a mega project
I wouldn’t even call the building of it a mega project.
Already have been 20 videos made about it, and i bet maybe half of them are narrated by Simon. The fuck u want?
Be better to do it as a mega project when it is finally demolished.
A few precisions: I have been in this stadium 3 times for the Arirang Mass Games in 2013 and 2018.
Once in 2018 it was maximum capacity (Kim Jong-Un was there) and there were so many people, I beleive now the highest numbers about this stadium capacity.
At 7:40, note that the 2 portraits are made from card-holding students, about 50 000 of them, during the Arirang Mass Games. So these are not posters, but giant human-pixels based images.
The Arirang Mass Games are not held anually, but held for 3-4 years in a row, then stopped for another 3-4 years. They stopped between 1994 and 1997, but are now back on track. They are beeing held for about 3 months, many times a week.
The marathon is open to any countries, not just dictatorship countries!
Every time he says behemoth, I hear Bear Moth and that's a scary thing to imagine
Almost as scary as manbearpig...
Half man, half bear, half moth.
How could I have not seen it! Your right, Manbearmoth is real!
How much Final Fantasy do you play? That sounds like a hidden boss lol
Great name for a metal band.
“It’s almost always the Cold War. This time it’s the Korean War.” So it’s still the Cold War
The cold war was about nukes not going off between the US and the Soviet Union. The Korean war had us on the ground fighting. The timing doesn't mean they're the same thing
@@SidewaysN the Korean War was the first conflict that involved proxy states that were controlled/backed by the US and USSR. So it was part of the Cold War...
lol exactly, the first major conflict of the cold war is the war in korea. but ok simon ahaha
@@andrewbumgarner2429 so you’re saying every shooting conflict from between the Korean war up to the fall of the ussr were "battles’"
Had Murica and Stalin not fucked over the poor Koreans who did nothing to them, except for the fact of them being an invaded land occupied by the Japanese who the aforementioned two wanted to split like a cheap pizza, Korea could have been better than simply a puppet of Murica and Stalin.
It kind of reminds of the villains hideout in the old Justice League cartoons from the 70’s. The one in the swamp.
The Legion of Doom
You're all doing such a great job on the various shows!
I've, pretty much, given up on almost all other programming.
May I ask what camera you use? The production looks so good!
I love how this is kinda turning into a side blaze
Side projects: for when mega projects gets too blazed on “business”
Should've named it the "Side Blaze" or "Project Blaze"
Allegedly.
It's the gateway drug into coca- uhhh Business Blaze.
@@thedarkonestaint6105 side blaze, definitely!
I can feel that one day Simon will Blaze it up in that stadium!
North Korea: Sends critics to slave labour camps
Simon: Sends critics to the basement
I'm not sure which would be worse
If he went there, he would probably be sent to a labour camp. Once there would who do you think he would lock up in a basement, fellow labourers, or guards. Or the leader 😂
Welcome to mega projects today we are talking about the world's biggest hotbox
@@rodepet he would somehow find and lock up the entire kim family
I struggle to comprehend how organised and motivated you must be to produce as much content as you do for as many channels as you’re running, yet somehow even you still sometimes forget to post links in the description? 🤣 thanks for all the hard work and quality videos 🙏
This guy is the UA-cam equivalent of Da Vinci
Probably as motivated as Kim is to fool his people into thinking theyre lives are among the best in the world
It’s his job. It is just another business.
He's got a writing team. Probably multiple writers, each writes an essay for him to narrate in return for(a hopefully substantial) cut of the video's revenue.
@magisterrleth3129 many, many writers and new ones all the time. And they usually get paid by the word. Also different editors for different channels. He even has a guy that's in control of ads
The stadium is actually very accessible to foreigners. Anyone who visits August-September will get offered tickets to the Mass Games, and at other times of the year will generally be able to view any event that coincidences with their visit.
They don’t let you see the starving population though do they.
@@keegan773irrelevant comment, but yea they don't
"Commonly known as the Bad Korea."
Allegedly.
best korea*
@@alicedog368 Allegedly.
North Korea is a bit shit.
@@lloydster9000 Allegedly
@@kunalphadte2674 “allegedly” 😉
Being a big wrestling fan, I’m glad that you mentioned Collision In Korea.
The North Koreans are going to build a bigger stadium when they hear this didn't make it onto Mega Projects
That Capitalist Running Dog Simon!
I wonder what will take longer: Kim Jong-Un hearing about this , or building a new super-stadium?
It’s finished now
Why would they need to? They all fit into this stadium with room to spare!
@ Luke Warren, I’m not sure which shit hole you live in, but Pyongyang has a population over 3.5million... the stadium seats 150K.
For an isolated(due to politics) country, they’re doing fine.
America with all its freedom would struggle to do this without it falling over and everyone getting sued.
The UK is too balls deep in legislation that it could never happen.
I love how smug Simon looks while saying “no, it’s in North Korea” like a giddy child lol
Collision in Korea is the only thing I remember about this stadium.
12:34 Pyongyang's two almost unused 1980's style cars, and -Rent-a-Crowd™- Command-a-Crowd™, martialled perfectly, in order to avoid blocking the view of the building.
Can you guys cover the 50,000 ton Alcoa Forge press. It has an interesting story, including how Germany was using this technology in WWII before anyone else. It may be big enough for a Mega Project.
Totally, the story of that press is so interesting! It's changed the course of history multiple times, and the details of its engineering and construction are super cool
I really enjoyed this video Simon.
Great informative video!!! Super interesting!!
"This bearmoth..." love your work, Simon. 😂 I do chuckle at the British pronunciation of "behemoth," though.
The largest stadium in the world, side project. Jet plane that carries 76 people, megaproject? Again gonna need to see the criteria checklist for these channels
I believe its something like. "which video have we got ready and which channel do we need a video for..."
One of them was technically innovative, ground breaking, and revolutionary... The other one is a boring building in bad korea.
I think it’s more to with information available and also whether it’s big . But some big things don’t have enough information and history available like this
@@amicloud_yt mega projects is just planes though. Listen, undeniably planes are technological marvels. No doubt. I live hearing all about aviation. But, you can't dismiss architecture. Without revolutions in architecture these planes could have never been built. Plus, the political aspect is, of course, very interesting. It's narrow minded and foolish not to pay attention to the politics of other nations
Checked the criteria and turns out all channels are completely free so subscribe to all of them and then you don't have to complain about free stuff
While not a stadium perse “The Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the largest sporting venue in the world, has permanent seating capacity for over 235,000 people.” -Wikipedia. I felt obligated to throw this in there since I’m from Indianapolis and I don’t want North Korea getting this record lol. Enjoy your videos!
Insane how that many people would want to see cars doing hundreds of laps lol
@@lewizzrocks its Indiana so I’m guessing there isn’t much else going on.
Yeah but it’s only a racing venue but for the stadium in North Korea it can host a lot more sports in it and if you search up what is the biggest stadium in the world it comes up as the North Korean one
I like how I can tell how new a video is by the length of Simon’s beard
Fitting...the Korean war was a spin off of the cold war.
Side projects is a spin off of mega projects
Hey simon! Can you do a geographics or megaprojects or side projects about varosha cyprus??
Every time you say Supreme Leader, all I can think of is Star Wars!
Indianapolis Motor Speedway : 257,327 (permanent seats) - 400,000 grand total capacity
Your channel reminds me of the history channel’s modern marvels. And that’s a good thing. I love this channel.
Oh c'mon Simon, are we that bad? Anyways As usual it is a great episode from your channel about the symbol of our power 🇰🇵💪
Take me in. I’m sick of the western ways. I’ll happily take a government provided flat with an international advisory role.
I’ll jump on a flight next week.
Please, glorious leader, pick me!
I love North Korea. First. I like to starve myself. Second. I like to Imprison myself. Yep.
We are the Best Korea
and proud of this masterpiece of a stadium
Should open up to tourism and Morden farming.
@@en6928 sat map saze different
Still no tourist....
You should do one about the "great man made river" in libya.
Like so he can see this
That cheeky smile at the end of the intro 👌
Very informative.
Good video 👍
I have a weird feeling Simon doesn’t like North Korea.......😂
Not at all, he is a friend of great Korea
He is very fond of western propaganda of Korea, China and Russia.
@@kimjongun6746 who isn’t 😂
@@anarchyantz1564 So North Korea is a good place?
@@neoarmstrongcyclonejetarms9326 Anything critical of the US / UK / Australia / Japan and / or praising China / Russia / Iran / North Korea is the unbiased truth (and definitely not any kind of propaganda). Anything critical of China / Russia / Iran/ North Korea and praising the US / UK / Australia / Japan is definitely "western" propaganda. Obviously everyone who hasn't fallen victim to the propaganda knows this.
Built by forced labor - wonder what the death toll actually was for that project.
Well, not as big as you think.
@@AAaa-pm3rr ffs. Don't make random claims and expect others to do the research for you 🙄
They used to say the Pyramids were built by slave labor it only took thousands of years to find out that every person in eqypt helped regardless of class.... #JustSayin not comparing though haha
Greater or lesser than the projects in the UAE and Saudi Arabia?
Its been said that the brand new Krestovsky Stadium in St Petersburg Russia for the World Cup was also built by North Korean slave labor.
Michigan Stadium is a quiet stadium. Michigan Stadium is designed to push noise up. Unlike Ohio Stadium with two cement blocks opposite of each other with the challenge of yelling louder. In 2009, I was in the fourth row for the Iowa v Ohio State game. I've never felt crowd noise like that (I've been to Michigan, Nebraska, Alabama, Cowboy Stadium, Iowa Stadium, Soldier Field, and many other stadiums). The best noise... the eerie silence when Iowa took Ohio State to overtime.
Cheers Simon
Do one on PNB 118 which is a mega tall building being constructed in Kuala Lumpur. Animations are very easily found online
I have been to that stadium. it was quite impressive. I was able to get a tour as part of the work I was doing there with sports.
Good job having a stadium with more seats than people in the country who can afford to sit in them.
Like some NFL stadiums.
Lol. NK has over 20 Million inhabitants. I am pretty sure tickets aren't as expensive as in your country.
@@fjellyo3261 when a Dr earns enough money to buy 1kg of rice a month, then tickets at any price are too expensive
And that's not a joke, they really don't make any money and 90% of the country is malnurished.
Actually if you watch videos of North Korea made by people who can travel there with less restrictions, like Indonesia or Malaysia, you’ll see that it’s not THAT bad. Reminds me more like being stuck in 80s Eastern Europe. I grew up in Hungary in that time, and it was closed, but if you aren’t materialistic it’s Ok.
So having time for some stadium events is not an issue. And they want the aesthetics of the stadium grand ness, they will find a way to fill the stadium.
For work we outsourced animation to North Korea. We had a full hour long Skype conference call with the studio inside North Korea. I was working in China where relations are normal.
North Korea isn’t paradise, but it isn’t that cartoony image people are portraying either.
So yes, they most likely can treat themselves to a stadium event once in a while
3:11 looks like a dish of cannelloni lol
Love to watch a video about colombo port city, simon!!
“Commonly known as the bad Korea” lol
Scrolling the comments looking for KJU's assessment of the latest video he sponsored.
Apparently he's to busy somewhere else. I think he's out the back of the stadium blazin' ? ...
Allegedly. But you know... In the normal way. Not in the general way - or the way that makes Generals nervous...
Right above your comment ironically.
Was expecting a Rick roll in the description....
I've been binging to much business blaze lmao
I'm not sure what stipulates what is and what isn't a "stadium." But the Indianapolis Motor Speedway home of the Indianapolis 500(Indy Car) & the Brickyard 400(NASCAR) is the worlds largest sporting venue. It is capable of seating 400,000+ spectators.
Anyone able to explain the difference between a stadium and a venue?
A stadium is probably defined as one contiguous structure. Indy certainly isn’t that. It’s a series of structures built near each other, some with large spaces in between.
The Marathon is an international event.
Side project - The Dish (parks australia).
The work they did on the Apollo program and also the recent radio waves from space.
I ran the Pyongyang Marathon there in 2016. Good to hear a bit more of the backstory. To be honest it didn't feel any bigger than the MCG, or Wembley, all of which I've done runs from and/or to the field. But once they're that big an extra 10,000 seats or so isn't easy to tell.
Simon! How many channels do you actually work for?
The MCG holds over 100000 people and has a field area near identical to said North Korean stadium. Just saying....... Australian's are sports nuts.
I personally don’t even buy that this place is the biggest stadium in the world. Can they cram 150,000 people inside at a time? Probably. But in terms of real seating capacity, it was clammed for years and years that it was officially 150,000, then they drop that down to only 114,000. Still the biggest in the world but by a more believable margin. If I had to guess I’d say the actual capacity of this place is more like 80,000-90,000
@@Mr.E723 114,000 people crammed into the stadium might be true, but the place cannot meet modern safety standards. The venue only has one entrance road and one exit road. That's a disaster waiting to happen.
Michigan university’s football field holds more than 100,000 as well. At a certain point I would think there’s diminishing returns. You can get a good crowd atmosphere without sitting a half mile away and having 30,000 cars all leave at once
I'm Australian, Did You Know About A Proposed Sydney Stadium From 1963 It Would Hold Over 150,000 or 200,000 People
Newly built Motera Cricket Stadium in India holds over 110000 people, now it's the biggest Cricket stadium in the world beating Melbourne Cricket Ground.
At 0:41 he said, “this bear moth”. He most likely was trying to say behemoth.
Aye I'm finally here at the beginning. Nice.
Noice
Sooo... this is another of simons Chanel’s ? Well I guess I’ll subscribe again
Bristol Motor Speedway holds 162,000 and hosts motor racing and football events in TN
I love that shirt! The pattern is mezmerizing 🤩
Where can i get one????!!!!
Ps.: i am serious, please send a link 🙏
Love all your channels 👌👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
It looks like a giant Bundt cake with white frosting 🤣
Been there in 2018 for the Mass Games. Quite impressive spectacle.
I feel like the Michigan football reference in the description is a fairly obscure reference for a non-American/Michigander…. Nice work
If you you’re more interested in north korea after this video i highly recommend the vice guide to north korea it’s a little dated now but still a great inside view at the hermit kingdom.
Simon made my suggestion. Nice.
Can u do a video on Greenbank observatory in west Virginia. Its a giant radiotelescope
Your boy with the blaze
...
Danny?
@Sideprojects You forgot about Strahov stadium in Prague
Topic suggestion: Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It’s got history and it’s even larger than this. Plus, fast cars always make things better.
Me: "So, Simon, how many channels do you have now?"
Simon - "Yes"
I need to hear more about the wrestling event
Lake Ponchatrain bridge. Longest bridge for decades.
I'm from Mississippi. I never knew our official flower was the same as North Korea. Mississippi is known as "The Magnolia State" because we have them everywhere. That's interesting. Thanks.
it's a rather different type of Magnolia
if I understand which one it is, the Oriental Magnolia has a very particular shape and fragrance, rather peculiar to the American Magnolia... it's flowers though, are half the size maybe
From the outside, it looks like a giant Bundt cake.
The Korean Mountain Magnolia is the national flower of North Korea? It should be the nettle. Nice video by the way.
I Prague we have strahovský stadion, 63 000m2, 250 000 people! 😂
Now it's training center for football, 9 full playground 👌
How many side projects does our dude Simon have, it’s diffficult to keep up 😅
Project Suggestion: I suggest a project necessitated by man made natural disaster. The Owens Lake dust mitigation project. The largest dust mitigation project in history. The man made disaster was alluded to in the movie "China Town". I was involved in the dust mitigation project. Probably qualifies for a Mega project.
One way in, one way out... This is a mega project. The world's largest fire trap
Give the North-Koreans some credit, usually it's one way in, no way out. So it is an improvement, sad thing is the concept of in AND out didn't catch on there.
The Satellite image on google maps looks much different, almost like it's being demolished.
Yes.
"lets hold a giant wrestling match to promote peace."
Irony.
correction. USA now has several stadiums that beat it. SoFi 288,500 square meters, Allegiant Stadium 92,903.04 Square Meters so USA foot ball is building out larger than North Korea.
“Oneupmanship”.
1:14 Tomato/Tomato, that's close enough lol
Is Bristol Motor Speedway not considered stadium? It’s 160k
Indianapolis Motor Speedway can hold over 260,000 and can be expanded to nearly 500,000 with temporary seating
Should do the Indy 500 stadium next. I think it might be the largest event stadium in the world.
Not even in the top 20 largest ones
So, I wonder what the parking situation is like there? I know automobile ownership is extremely low in North Korea but it still seems mind-blowing that such a large facility doesn't have any visible surface parking or garage at all.
There is not any. Except for few VIP cars only buses park all around the stadium. Many locals just walk in from the city. I was there 2 years ago for Arirang 2018 premiere. Full stadium. I will never forget it.
I'm sure they didn't kill off their trains for automobiles like america let happen. Not everyone is that stupid and short sighted
Walk or public transit. As you said, people don’t own cars and the streets there are relatively empty.
You don’t need to go somewhere as exotic as North Korea to find that. There are Premier League stadiums in England with basically zero parking.
How short do you have to be to get denied entry?
Dear Simon and Danny,
Pleez do an episode of Side Projects on the moviefilm known as "Space Cop" starring Mike Stoklasa as Old Timey Cop
2:15 - Chapter 1 - Size, capacity & design
4:10 - Chapter 2 - History of the stadium
6:40 - Chapter 3 - Features & facilities
7:55 - Chapter 4 - Notable sporting events & performances
8:05 - Chapter 4.1 - Arirang festival
8:30 - Chapter 4.2 - Collision in Korea
9:20 - Chapter 4.3 - Inter korean summit
9:45 - Chapter 4.4 - Invicible socialism
10:25 - Chapter 4.5 - Pyongyang marathon
11:05 - Chapter 5 - Allegations & controversies
What about the stadium in Prague that holds 210 people?
Beautiful building
It actually doubles as a big jelly mold
Jello mold
And piggy boy un ate it all.
@@toolegittoquit_001 Google "British Jelly" and get back to us.
Hint: it's a gelatin desert and most of the English-speaking world speaks UK-English.
It does look cool. Ryugyong looks cool too.
Indianapolis Motor Speedway:
350,000+
The Indy 500 is the largest single day sporting event in the world (250,000 actually in stands)