Overview
The Olympic Bridge is a bridge connecting Guui-dong in Gwangjin-gu and Pungnap-dong in Songpa-gu, Seoul. It was built to permanently commemorate the 24th Seoul Olympics, the starting point of Korea's globalization, and to manage traffic around the Olympic venues. It is the first concrete cable-stayed bridge in Korea and stretches 1.5 km in length. Four main towers, each 88 meters tall, symbolize the 1988 Seoul Olympics, stand here, and the towers are shaped like the Olympic cauldron. The four main towers represent the four weeks, four seasons, and four directions of the year, month, day, and hour, while the 24 cables represent the events of the 24th Seoul Olympics, showcasing their outstanding artistic quality. Alongside the construction of the Olympic Bridge, a 2,500-pyeong road park and a 6-meter-diameter five-wheeled vehicle and 24 commemorative sculptures symbolizing global harmony were created on the southern Gosu site. The Olympic Bridge was built to commemorate the Seoul Olympics and is the first concrete cable-stayed bridge in Korea to be selected through a competition for bridge design, leaving many records in Korea's bridge history.