Taedong Bridge
Coordinates: 39 ° 0 ′ 44 ″ N , 125 ° 45 ′ 25 ″ E
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Hangeul : 대동교 Hanja : 大同 橋 Revised Romanization : Daedong-gyo McCune-Reischauer : Taedong-gyo |
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| use | Road traffic | |
| Convicted | Haebangsan Street - Saesallim Street | |
| Crossing of | Taedong gang | |
| place | Pyongyang , Chung-guyŏk District , Taedonggang-guyŏk , Sŏngyo-guyŏk | |
| completion | 1905 | |
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The Taedong Bridge is a road bridge in the North Korean capital Pyongyang and one of the six bridges that cross the Taedong Gang in the city . It connects the districts of Chung-guyŏk on the west bank and Taedonggang-guyŏk and Sŏngyo-guyŏk on the east bank, where it leads to Saesallim Street.
history
The bridge was built by the Japanese and completed in 1905. Together with the Yanggak Bridge , which was built in the same year , it is one of the two oldest Pyongyang east-west connections over the Taedong Gang.
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It was largely destroyed in the Korean War. After the invasion of Chinese troops in the winter of 1950, thousands of civilians escaped using the ruins of the bridge to cross the river. Several people were killed. Associated Press photographer Max Desfor took a photo of the event on December 5, 1950, entitled Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in 1951 .
Artistic processing
The bridge is depicted in the cartoon Pyongyang by the cartoonist Guy Delisle . The narrator explains that he saw painting work on the rusty bridge. It is said to have been painted ultramarine blue by workers who had roped off . However, the work was only three-quarters completed and the rust was visible again after two weeks.
In the North Korean browser game Pyongyang Racer , the player crosses the bridge.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Taedong Bridge. In: Structurae , Retrieved August 25, 2011
- ↑ Heinz-Dietrich Fischer, Erika J. Fischer: The Pulitzer Prize. Competitors, fights, controversies. LIT, Berlin et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-0339-1 , p. 141.