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Munhak Worldcup Stadium

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Munhak Worldcup Stadium

Location and Scale

Location and Scale
  • Location: San 8, Munhak-dong, Nam-gu, Incheon Metropolitan City
  • Site Area: 441, 628 ㎡, with parking space for 4,559 cars
  • Main Stadium: 50,256 seats (Total of 95,059 m², including the basement and five stories above the ground)
    • · Types of Seats: 500 VIP seats, 1,060 media seats, and 48,696 general seats (including 282 seats for the handicapped and 732 season seats)
    • · Color of Seats: Grayish Blue (46×42㎝) – Seats have varying shades, and are arranged in the shape of waves
  • Other Facilities: Baseball Stadium (30,300 seats), Small Arena (5,000 seats)
  • Construction Period: July 1994 ~ January 2002
  • Cost of Construction: 280.1 billion (Completed on January 31, 2002)

How to get to the Stadium

  • By Subway: Take Incheon Subway Line 1 and get off at the Munhak World Cup Stadium Station
  • By Bus
    • · City Buses: # 4, 6, 13, 27, 63, 64, 515, 522, or 523
    • · Airport Limousine Bus, General Reserved Seat Bus No. 111, or Express Reserved Seat Bus No. 300

Plans for Future Use

  • Basement: Junior Land, foot court, youth facilities, sports information center, offices for cultural and art organizations
  • First Floor: Children's Museum, meeting place
  • Second Floor: Children's Museum, VIP rooms, event hall
  • Third Floor: Children's Museum, restaurants, snack bar, youth hostel
  • Facilities in the Vicinity: artificial rock-climbing court, bungee jump platform, extreme game court

Management of the Public Relations Hall and Study Tour

  • Location: At the northern corner of the first floor of the Stadium
  • Area: 93 pyeong
  • Major Exhibitions
    • · A miniature model of Munhak World Cup Stadium, and samples of the raw materials used in its construction
    • · Painted wall relief sculpture of the Word Cup 2002 logo
    • · Introduction to the 32 countries that advanced to the main round in the World Cup 2002, and World Cup
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    • · Introduction to the official World Cup posters for previous events, and the countries that played in Munhak
  • World Cup Stadium
    • · Information search on the Internet, World Cup 2002 films and videos, souvenir shops
    • · Life-sized image of World Cup soccer star Lee Chun-soo, for photos
  • Business Hours: 9:00 am ~ 6:00 pm (until 5:00 pm during the winter)
    • * The public relations hall is open on holidays. Tours are available without reservations.
  • Tour Course Public Relations Hall -> Stadium and Other Facilities -> Dohobu Government Hall (across the street from the Stadium)
    • * Information: 82-32-433-0068
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