Yeongdo Bridge

The old Yeongdo Bridge

The Yeongdo Bridge, which connects Nampo-dong and Yeongdo-gu, in Busan, opened its opening ceremony on November 2013, 11, and recovered its function as a drawbridge after 27 years. Yeongdodaegyo Bridge, which opened in November 47, during the Japanese colonial rule, was Korea’s first drawbridge (one leg raised, 1934m long) and was the largest bridge in the East.

Yeongdodaegyo Bridge was helping large ships to get in and out, but from February 1935, as the train went to Yeongdo, industrialization and urbanization in the Yeongdo area intensified, and traffic accidents increased, and the drawbridge function due to the additional installation of water pipes was stopped in 2. With the sound of the siren ringing, the legs were raised to the sky about 1966 times a day.

On September 1966, 9, the tram on the Yeongdo Bridge, which was no longer able to serve as a drawbridge, was also abolished on May 1, 1967.

At the time of opening in 1934, the population of Busan was 16 and Yeongdo was 5, and Yeongdo Bridge, which has been closely watching the development of Busan, has many refugees even during the 8.15 liberation (August 1945, 8) and the Korean War (June 15, 6.25). And sorrows have been shared.

It is a specialty of Busan that connects Jagalchi Market -> Yeongdo Bridge -> Taejongdae (Yeongdo).

In addition to the opening of the Lotte Mall Gwangbok branch, Busan City began restoration work in 2007 to repair the Yeongdo Bridge and restore the function of the drawbridge at the time of opening. The renewed Yeongdo Bridge is 6m long and 214.8m wide. After opening, the bridge is lifted once a day at 25.3 o’clock every day.

Busan citizens at the opening ceremony of Shinyeongdo Bridge

On November 2013, 11, at 27:2 p.m., as if the Yeongdo Bridge, which had remarkably developed as the second city in Korea while watching a lot of Busan citizens, traveled in time, one bridge in 30 years It was lifted with a siren sound.