A Book Review - Hotels of Pyongyang Book by Nicole Reed and James Scullin

 Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea  For many travellers, spending a lot of time in a hotel means you haven't properly gone out and enjoyed a destination. But in North Korea, the opposite is true. For James Scullin, who has visited the Hermit Kingdom eight times, hotels were the highlight of the trip -- and one of the only ways to get to know locals in a social setting. That's the premise of his new self-published book "Hotels of Pyongyang," with text by Scullin and photographs by Nicole Reed. "So much of the world is globalized now. There are so few places you can go to that have a bespoke culture and look and feel," Scullin says. After moving from China back to his native Melbourne, he connected with Reed, who focuses on portraiture and architecture photography. The two spent five days together in Pyongyang photographing hotels and the people who work in them.