SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) – A vertical marathon race dubbed Sky Run was held at Lotte World Tower yesterday. During the international marathon event held at the newly opened landmark building in Seoul’s Songpa District, over 900 participants from around the world raced up 123 floors to the top of the towe – 2,917 stairs [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Lotte Corporation and LEGO Korea are hosting a Lego festival until May 7 on the lawn of Lotte World Mall, where visitors can contribute to building a 12-meter tall “Lego flower.” Under the theme “Lego Becomes Flower,” participants can create their own Lego works to fill up the massive [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s tallest skyscraper built by retail giant Lotte Group officially opened to the public on Monday, the group’s operating unit said, marking another milestone for the country’s fifth-largest business empire facing a slew of challenges. The opening ceremony of the 123-story Lotte World Tower was attended by top [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Celebrating Lotte World Tower’s Guinness World Record of having the highest glass-floor observatory in the world, a group of breakdancers offered a special performance Thursday at the tower’s Seoul Sky observatory, transparent through 478 meters of thin air. Seoul Sky is located on the 118th floor of the 123-story [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Doosan’s ‘We’ve the Zenith’ in Haeundae, Busan, which has been recognized as the tallest building in Korea since construction was completed in 2011, will soon be handing over the title to the Lotte World Tower in Jamsil, Seoul. As of the end of last year, the tallest among completely [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Lotte World Tower – a 555-meter, 123-floor skyscraper in Seoul – underwent a fire evacuation drill on Wednesday afternoon, with 2,891 civilians who volunteered for the exercise participating. The drill’s scenario assumed that the fire took place in the tower’s restaurant on the 107th floor, with as many as [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Lotte Corporation announced Monday the winners of its second Lotte World Tower-themed photography contest. The building is a 123-story, 555-meter high skyscraper that is currently the tallest building in the country, and the fifth tallest in the world. First prize went to Kim Seung-rae for his Lotte World Tower [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Lotte Corporation erected a statue of German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Tuesday in the open park behind Lotte World Tower, the tallest building in South Korea. The 5.15-meter statue is a duplicate of sculptor Fritz Schaper’s Goethe Monument (1880) in Berlin’s Tiergarten Park, and will be available for [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Thirty years after its site was selected, Korea’s (and the OECD’s) tallest building yet, Lotte World Tower, has finally seen the completion of its exterior structure. With only the finishing touches remaining, construction is expected to wrap up on December 22. Located in Jamsil, a neighborhood in southeast Seoul’s [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Seokchon Lake Park was where Florentijn Hofman’s giant Rubber Duck made its landing for a 10-day stay 2014, but something else landed Thursday, attracting hundreds of visitors that sought a glimpse of something out of the ordinary – a colossal Supermoon. Signaling the coming of Chuseok, the Korean Thanksgiving [...]