Tancheon Stadium

Tancheon Stadium
탄천종합운동장 주경기장
Former names Seongnam 2 Sports Complex
Location 215, Tancheon-ro, Bundang-gu, Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Operator Seongnam
Capacity 16,250
Field size
  • Site: 117,414 m2 (1,263,830 sq ft)
  • Floor space: 29,220 m2 (314,500 sq ft)
Surface Grass
Construction
Broke ground August 1997
Opened 1 April 2002[1]
Construction cost 112.1 Billion KRW
Tenants
Seongnam FC

Tancheon Sports Complex (Korean: 탄천종합운동장) is a group of sports facilities in Seongnam, South Korea. Its name was Seongnam 2 Sports Complex but changed to Tancheon Sports Complex in 2006, naming after the stream, named Tancheon, beside the stadium. The complex consists of the Tancheon Stadium, Tancheon Baseball Stadium and a health club.

Facilities

Tancheon Stadium

It is multi-purpose stadium and currently used mostly for football matches and has been the new home stadium of Seongnam FC since 2005, instead of the old one, Seongnam Sports Complex. The stadium holds 16,250 spectators and was built in 2002.

In popular culture

In the quarantine camp scene in the South Korean disaster film, Film (2013), infected persons are placed in plastic bags, with some of them still alive, thrown into a pit in Tancheon Stadium, and incinerated. Mir (Park Min-ha is brought to the pit of bodies to be incinerated but is rescued by Kang Ji-goo (Jang Hyuk). The uninfected people see the pit, and a riot ensues, forcing the evacuation of all medical and military personnel from the camp.

References

  1. "Tancheon Stadium". World of Stadiums.

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Coordinates: 37°24′37″N 127°07′17″E / 37.410153°N 127.121322°E / 37.410153; 127.121322


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