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World Cup Football - Match Venues - Seoul Stadium

Seoul World Cup Stadium has a capacity of 66,704; Photo Chris KL Lau.

The interior of the stadium

Photograph of Seoul Stadium, South Korea.

Under construction 2001

The new hi-tech Sangam Mapo-Ku Stadium in Seoul has a seating capacity of 63,930 seats and was completed by November 2001. The stadium is part of the massive Millennium redevelopment project on the Han River west of the city center, which will include the world's tallest fountain and a massive circular gateway. The monumental stadium – billed as the largest football-only ground in Asia - incorporates a cutting-edge eco-friendly design, which utilizes gas drawn from the old Nanji-do landfill site on which it has been constructed for power and lighting the stadium at night. The pitch is 3 meters from the nearest seats, there are 2 giant state-of-the-art video screens and the spectacular roof and support masts are symbolic of a Korean kite and a Han river boat.
Surrounding facilities will include a new multiplex cinema, supermarkets and a swimming pool. The massive scale of the new development made the stadium one of the wonders of the 2002 World Cup. The Japanese government helped to fund the project with a loan of US$200m.

The Seoul World Cup Stadium, aka Seoul Stadium, is located in the Sangam-dong, Mapo-gu area of Seoul. It was built for the 2002 World Cup and opened in 2001; Photo Chris KL Lau

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