Chuncheon to Build 140 Meter Glass Bridge
I don’t really see the purpose of a glass bridge but the city of Chuncheon is about to spend a bunch of money to make one anyway:
Chuncheon City will build the country’s largest skywalk in order to enable visitors the opportunity to stroll above the water.
The city in Gangwon Province plans to spend six-point-eight billion won to construct the Soyang Skywalk near the Statue of Soyang River Maiden at the waterfront of Lake Euiam.
The 174-meter facility will stretch to the heart of the lake, with the 140-meter section being a glass walkway. [KBS World Radio]
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GIKorea: I don’t really see the purpose of a glass bridge but the city of Chuncheon is about to spend a bunch of money to make one anyway
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Chuncheon makes a lot of its money from domestic tourism, GIKorea. Resorts, weddings, good food, and golf, among other things. A glass skywalk sounds like a nice idea. If I ever get the money and the time to go back to Korea, I definitely want to go back to Chuncheon and see how it has grown up since the days of Camp Page.
If you look at the picture, you see the bridge with the red and blue suspension arches in the middle. That is the main connector between Sinsau-dong to the north (left in picture) and Soyang-Ro to the south (right in picture). The thin bridge in the background that parallels the bigger bridge was an old bridge that was deemed unsafe for car traffic and was restricted to foot traffic only in the mid-1980s.
Back in those days, WSD-K’s PT formation (about 200 soldiers) would sometimes run up to this point across the bigger bridge, turn east and followed a road that paralleled the bank, then turned south onto the little bridge to cross again. It was still dark at that time of morning, so the overhead bridge lights were lit. Since we were running in formation, we were all striking the ground at the same instant with every step we took. The rhythmic vibration would cause the bridge lights to start oscillating. By the time we were halfway across the bridge, every light was shaking wildly, creating this sensation that the bridge was going to shake apart and tumble into the water at any moment. Good times.