Taedong Bridge

Taedong Bridge
Aerial view of the bridge (2018)
Coordinates	39°00′44″N 125°45′25″E
Crosses	Taedong River
Locale	Pyongyang, North Korea
History
Built	1905
Location

Taedong Bridge
Chosŏn'gŭl	대동교
Hancha	大同橋
Revised Romanization	Daedonggyo
McCune–Reischauer	Taedonggyo

The Taedong Bridge (Korean: 대동교) is a bridge over the Taedong River in Pyongyang, North Korea.[1]

The bridge was built by the Japanese and completed in 1905. It is one of Pyongyang's two oldest east–west connections via the Taedong Gang, along with the Yanggak Bridge, built in the same year.

It was largely destroyed in the Korean War. When Chinese troops advanced near Pyongyang in the winter of 1950, thousands of civilians fled to the rubble of the bridge to cross the river in which several people were killed. The crossing of the ruined Taedong Bridge was part of the larger evacuation of Pyongyang during the Korean War.[2] The event was taken on December 5, 1950, by Associated Press photographer Max Desfor titled Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in 1951.

Gallery

• 
  The bridge in the 1920s
• 
  The Pulitzer Prize–winning photo Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea (1950)
• 
  Under the bridge (1988)
• 
  The bridge at night, along with Juche Tower to the right and fireworks for the Arirang Mass Games in background (2012)

References

1. Corfield, Justin (2014). "Bridges". Historical Dictionary of Pyongyang. London: Anthem Press. pp. 16–17. ISBN 978-1-78308-341-1.
2. "Pyongyang taken as UN retreats, 1950". BBC Archive. Retrieved 2021-08-22.

39.0122°N 125.7570°E / 39.0122; 125.7570