Seoul Olympic Stadium

Seoul Olympic Stadium
The Seoul Olympic Stadium
Data
place	25 Olympic-ro Songpa-gu , Seoul , South Korea
Coordinates	37 ° 30 '57 "  N , 127 ° 4' 22.1"  E Coordinates: 37 ° 30 '57 "  N , 127 ° 4' 22.1"  E
owner	Seoul Sports Facilities Management Center
start of building	November 28, 1977
opening	September 29, 1984
surface	Natural grass
costs	KRW 1.025 trillion
architect	Kim Swoo Geun
capacity	69,950 seats
playing area	110 × 75 m
Societies)
Seoul United FC (2007-2009, 2012) Seoul E-Land FC (since 2015)
Events
Games of the South Korean national soccer team (1984-2000, 2013) 1986 Asian Games 1988 Summer Olympics World Junior Athletics Championships 1992 Soccer East Asian Cup 2013

The Seoul Olympic Stadium (in Hangeul : 서울 올림픽 주 경기장 , in Hanja : 서울 奧林匹克 主 竞技场 ) in the South Korean capital Seoul is a football stadium with an athletics facility located in the southwest of the city's Songpa-gu district and part of the Jamsil sports complex .

history

The Olympic Stadium was built mainly for the 1988 Summer Olympics . The athletics competitions of the games were held there. At that time the stadium had a capacity of 100,000 seats. The architect of the stadium was Kim Swoo Geun . The silhouette of the stadium is said to symbolize vases from the Joseon Dynasty .

Today the stadium has seats for almost 70,000 spectators and is struggling to assert itself against the stadiums that were newly built for the 2002 World Cup .

gallery

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  Facade (2008)

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  The Olympic Rings on the Stadium (2005)

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  The stadium interior (1994)

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  Game of Seoul E-Land FC (2016)

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  The interior of the stadium (2016)

Web links

Commons : Seoul Olympic Stadium  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• la84foundation.org: Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume one, part one , la84foundation.org (PDF; 21.61 MB)