Bridges in Korea
Banpo Bridge & Gwangan Bridge (a.k.a Diamond bridge)
Banpo Bridge
Banpo Bridge Rainbow Fountain is the world’s longest bridge fountain. The fountain is programmed to play different shows during the day and night. During the day, the fountain shows a hundred different configurations meant to evoke waving willow branches and willow leaves. When the sun goes down, 200 lights illuminate the fountain as it sends up dancing, rainbow-colored jets of water in the air in synchronization with music.
The Moonlight Rainbow Fountain is the world's longest bridge fountain[6] that set a Guinness World Recordwith nearly 10,000 LED nozzles that run along both sides that is 1,140m long, shooting out 190 tons of water per minute.
Installed in September 2009 on the Banpo Bridge, former mayor of Seoul Oh Se-hoon declared that the bridge will further beautify the city and showcase Seoul's eco-friendliness, as the water is pumped directly from the river itself and continuously recycled.
The bridge has 38 water pumps and 380 nozzles on either side, which draw 190 tons of water per minute from the river 20 meters below the deck, and shoots as far as 43 meters horizontally.
Banpo bridge is a major bridge in downtown Seoul over the Han River, South Korea, connecting the Seocho and Yongsan districts. The bridge is on top of Jamsu Bridge, forming the upper half of a double-deck bridge; it is the first double deck bridge built in South Korea.
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Gwangan Bridge (Diamond Bridge)
Busan City announced on November 21 that Gwangan Bridge’s English nickname would be “Diamond Bridge”, which sounds foreigner-friendly and represents the international aspirations of the city of Busan. Gwangan Bridge is becoming an internationally renowned tourist destination as a representative landmark of Busan.
According to the results of a survey of 357 members of citizens’ groups and 67 professionals in urban technology, tourism and hotel management, about the need for an English nickname for Gwangan Bridge, 84 percent of respondents said they felt that Gwangan Bridge needed a nickname. Among the nominated nicknames for Gwangan Bridge, which included Diamond, Sunshine, Asiad, Ocean, Beach and Camellia, 43 percent of respondents chose “Diamond”. Therefore, “Diamond Bridge” was decided as the nickname for the bridge.
Busan City encourages all Busan citizens to widely use the term “Diamond Bridge”, the English nickname for Gwangan Bridge, such as on Busan tourism brochures to promote the name worldwide.
Diamond Bridge, which connects No. 49 Square, Namcheon-dong, Suyeong-gu and the Busan Information Complex, is 7.42 kilometers long and 18 ~ 25 meters wide (Suspension bridge 0.9 km, Truss br idge 0.7 km, General bridge section 5.7 km, Underground section 1.37km) and opened in January 6, 2003 at a cost of 789.9 billion won. The Busan Metropolitan City Facilities Management Authority has been managing the Gwangan Bridge since it was opened.
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