Rungnado May Day Stadium

And a North Korean national football team

World Festival of Youth and Students in 1989, Arirang Festival

The stadium " 1 MAY ", also Rungnado May Day Stadium called, is a stadium on the island Rungna in Pyongyang in the district of Chung- guyŏk, North Korea. The name derives from the May 1, the day of struggle of the labor movement, from. It was built for the World Festival of Youth and Students in 1989 and opened two and a half years of construction on May 1, 1989. The stadium has a capacity of 150,000 spectators, making it according to the Strahov Stadium in the Czech Republic is the second largest stadium in the world.

In addition to the use as a sports venue, the stadium mainly for parades and festivals serves. So it is since May 2002 for the mass gymnastics Arirang, at the more than 100,000 actors present a colossal and meticulously choreographed gymnastics and artistic demonstration, used. Arirang is one of the few events in North Korea, which is also open to foreign guests. In total, more than 250,000 people were in the stadium, so far the highest number in the 20- year history of this stadium.

Architecture

The stadium has eight ranks. It is connected from 16, about a hundred yards wide and arranged in a ring arc roofs constructed of aluminum, which gives it the appearance of an opening flower.

Gallery

The enlightened Stadium

The stadium May Day at a mass meeting in January 2008

The stadium during the Arirang Festival in August 2012