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 [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Another sinkhole (one meter wide and two meters deep) has formed near the new Lotte World Tower, the latest landmark skyscraper in Seoul. Lotte World Tower is a 123-floor skyscraper in Jamsil, Songpa District, and is currently in the final stages of construction. The tower has received widespread public [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) – While investigations into Lotte Group, one of Korea’s top five conglomerates, regarding slush funds are marring its reputation, the “skyscraper curse”, a popular belief that a country or a company that constructs a skyscraper eventually confronts a mishap, is in the public eye. Construction on the second Lotte World (Lotte [...]