The Seoul International Fireworks Festival, which hadn’t been held in a long time due to the new coronavirus (COVID-19) infection, was held for the first time in three years. A million citizens flocked to Yeouido to see the colorful fireworks that embroidered the sky.
The event took place under the theme “We Hope Again”. It means comforting the daily life of citizens exhausted by the COVID-19 emergency and rekindling a spark of dreams and hopes. The fireworks festival, which started at 7:20 pm, lasted about 100 minutes. Three teams from Korea, Japan and Italy participated in this festival.
The Japanese team launched a message of hope to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic with the opera ‘Sky Full of Hope’, followed by the opera of the Italian team ‘New World’, which means a new world with intense music. .
From 8:30 pm, the Korean team organized a fireworks display with messages of hope and comfort under the theme “We Hope Again – Counting the Stars”.
To this, netizens showed reactions like “The Korean team is great”, “The ending is really great” and “I’ll go see it in Yeouido”, etc.
To see the fireworks festival on this day, citizens soon visited Yeouido Hangang Park. About 40 tents for 3-4 people were set up on the lawn in front of the water taxi stand at Yeouido Hangang Park in Seoul from 9am the same day. Citizens who could not bring tents sat on mats in their padded winter jackets and the thick blankets they had brought. The lawns of Yeouido Hangang Park were already full of tents and mats to the point that there were no gaps.
Seoul and other cities predicted that up to 1 million people would gather at the festival on this day. In preparation for a crowd of citizens, Yeoui-dong-ro (the southern end of the Mapo Bridge ~ in front of Building 63) was fully guarded from 2pm to 11pm the same day. Public transport is also difficult to use. 19 bus lines passing close to Yeouido run from 1pm to 2pm, bypassing the control section (Yeoui-dong-ro). Metro line 5 went through Yeouinaru station flexibly without stopping around 5pm.
Reporter Lee Song-ryeol at Hankyung.com [email protected]
