The Michael Jackson room in the Tyrol Hotel where there was a fire.On the 21st, Michael Jackson and golf star Pak Se-ri, who had already died in the fire incident at the Tirol Hotel in Deogyusan Resort, Muju-gun, Jeollabuk-do, are summoned and attracting attention.
The fire broke out in the middle of the night on the 21st, and fortunately after five hours, the fire was completely extinguished, and about 80 people, including hotel guests and staff, were evacuated.
The reason Michael Jackson was summoned suddenly was because of the’Michael Jackson Room’ in this hotel.
Tirol, a first-class hotel in Muju Resort. Only one of them, Room 501, leads to the Michael Jackson room. The exact name of this room, which costs 5 million won per night, is Seven Summits, nicknamed Michael Jackson’s Room.
The history of this nickname goes back to November 1997, during the financial crisis. At the moment, Michael Jackson was considering investing in Korea, and at that time President-elect Kim Dae-jung invited him to stay in this room at the Muju Tirol Hotel.
What’s surprising is that Michael stuck some text on the wooden side table next to the bed with a ballpoint pen. The contents are like this.
`Please cherish and save our children. Korea is’god’, and Muju is love. With eternal love (LOVE and SAVE OUR CHILDREN. KOREA IS GOD AND MUJU IS LOVE. LOVE always).`
This side table, with traces of Michael’s handwriting, is also a side table, but there is another specialty in this room. It is a handmade bronze bathtub. This bronze bathtub with a market value of over 100 million won only exists in this room in Tyrol.
Muju has not remodeled this room since Michael stayed, and has kept the traces of the time intact.
Tyrol Hotel 504, which leads to Se-ri Park.Besides the Michael Jackson room, there is another famous room here. It is also known as’Pak Se-ri’s room’.
Room 504 leads to Se-ri Park’s room. After winning the 1998 US Women’s Open with a barefoot fighting spirit, Se-ri Pak, who walked through the streets, visited this place in 2001. This is the room where Pak Se-ri, a ski enthusiast, came to enjoy skiing and suffered a dislocation injury from a shoulder injury.
There are still photos and autographs of Se-ri Park. Like the Michael Jackson room, this is the only’Tyrolian Suite’ room in the Tyrol Hotel.
The structure of the room is not unusual. 1 living room per room. There is a separate space for cooking, but nothing special. The room price is around 5 million won. If you use the event package well, you can stay for around 1 million won.
The fire ended around 3:55, about 5 hours later. It is believed that the fire started due to overheating of the firewood boiler pipe. It was investigated that the 5th floor of this building was connected to a firewood boiler installed on the 2nd floor. The firefighting authorities are cleaning up the remaining fires and will investigate the exact cause of the fire and the scale of damage when the firefighting work is completed.
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