Stadium May 1st
| Stadium May 1st | |
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| Rungrado May Day Stadium | |
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| The stadium photographed from the Yanggakdo International Hotel | |
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 Nŭngna-do , Pyongyang , North Korea
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| Coordinates | 39 ° 2 ′ 58 " N , 125 ° 46 ′ 30" E |
| start of building | 1986 |
| opening | May 1, 1989 |
| Renovations | 2014 |
| surface | artificial grass |
| capacity | 114,000 seats |
| playing area | 22,500 m² |
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| Korean spelling | |
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| Korean alphabet : | 5 월 1 일 경기장 |
| Hanja : | 5 月 1 日 競技場 |
| Revised Romanization : | Owol iril gyeonggijang |
| McCune-Reischauer : | Owŏl iril kyŏnggijang |
The stadium “1. Mai “ (also called Rungrado May Day Stadium ) is currently the largest football stadium with an athletics facility and at the same time the largest stadium in the world. It is located on the island Rungnado in Pyongyang in the district Chung-guyok , North Korea . The name is derived from May 1st , the day of struggle of the labor movement .
history
The stadium was built on the occasion of the World Festival of Youth and Students in 1989 and opened on May 1, 1989 after two and a half years of construction. It originally had a capacity of 150,000 and has been in first place on the list of the largest stadiums in the world since the Strahov Stadium in the Czech capital Prague could no longer be used in its entirety due to dilapidation .
On April 28 and 29, 1995, the two-day wrestling event Collision in Korea of the WCW and the NJPW took place. On the second day, up to 190,000 spectators are said to have been in the stadium. A total of 340,000 visitors watched the fighting.
In addition to being used as a sports facility, the stadium is particularly a venue for parades and celebrations. Since May 2002 it has been used for mass gymnastics Arirang , in which over 100,000 actors perform an oversized and meticulously choreographed gymnastics and art performance. Arirang is one of the few events in North Korea that is also open to foreign guests. A total of more than 250,000 people were in the stadium, the highest number in the history of this stadium.
In September 2013, the ruler Kim Jong-un ordered the renovation of the stadium. The stadium seats and the athletics facility were to be renewed, the natural turf replaced by artificial turf and the floodlights modernized and improved. Work could begin at the beginning of April 2014. Up to 10,000 soldiers of the People's Army were assigned to renovate and quartered in temporary container buildings at the stadium. The 2014 Arirang Festival was canceled due to the redesign.
Shortly after the last work was completed, the reopening of the packed venue was celebrated on October 28, 2014. The new seating is in the national colors red, blue and white. The facade and the interior were painted orange and white. In addition, the VIP rooms and almost all of the numerous training facilities have been renovated. The cost of the modernization and the current capacity of the May Day Stadium are not known, but the stadium will no longer have 150,000 seats. Due to the new seating arrangement, it is more likely that the new capacity will be 114,000.
architecture
The stadium is over 60 meters high, has eight floors and a usable area of over 207,000 square meters. It is constructed from 16 interconnected, about a hundred meters wide and ring-shaped arched roofs made of aluminum , which gives it the appearance of an opening blossom.
Inside the stadium there is an artificial turf soccer field and a facility for athletics competitions. There are also several training halls, relaxation rooms and a swimming pool as well as a dining room and broadcast rooms in the stadium. There is a walkway several hundred meters long on the sixth floor.
gallery
The stadium at night
The illuminated stadium
The stadium May 1st at a mass event in January 2008
The stadium during the Arirang Festival in August 2012
See also
Web links
- BBC News: Pictures from the Arirang Festival , April 30, 2002
- Rungrado May Day Stadium at stadiumdb.com (English)
- Rungrado May Day Stadium at worldstadiums.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fighter for Korea's reunification , einestages.spiegel.de
- ↑ prowrestling.wikia.com: Collision in Korea (English)
- ↑ stadiumdb.com: North Korea: Rungrado May Day to undergo thorough revamp Article from September 26, 2013 (English)
- ↑ stadiumdb.com: North Korea: Mysterious renovation of Rungrado begins Article from April 4, 2014 (English)
- ↑ stadiumdb.com: Pyongyang: May Day Stadium reopened article from November 13, 2014 (English)
- ↑ stadiumdb.com: Rungrado May Day Stadium (English)
- ^ Philipp Meuser (Ed.): Architectural Guide Pyongyang. Volume 2: Background and Comments. DOM publishers, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86922-126-7 , p. 54.
- ^ Philipp Meuser (Ed.): Architectural Guide Pyongyang. Volume 1: Photos and Descriptions. DOM publishers, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86922-126-7 , p. 78.