Olympic Bridge올림픽대교

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Olympic Bridge connects Guui-dong in Gwangjin-gu with Pungnap-dong in Songpa-gu, Seoul. It was built to permanently commemorate the 24th Seoul Olympic Games, which marked the starting point of Korea's globalization, and to handle traffic around the Olympic venues. It is Korea's first concrete cable-stayed bridge and stretches 1.5 km. Four 88 m-tall pylons, representing the 1988 Seoul Olympics, are designed in the shape of an Olympic torch. The four pylons stand for the year, month, day, and hour, as well as the four seasons and the four directions, while the 24 cables represent the 24th Seoul Olympic Games, a design admired for its artistry. Along with the bridge, a 2,500-pyeong roadside park was created on the riverside land at the southern end, featuring five Olympic rings 6 m in diameter, symbolizing harmony among the world's peoples, and 24 commemorative sculptures. Built to celebrate Seoul's hosting of the Olympics, and as Korea's first concrete cable-stayed bridge with a design chosen through a public competition, Olympic Bridge holds many records in the history of Korean bridges.