Landmark Lighting Event of Symbolic Colors of Busan and Hokkaido
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The City of Busan has announced that it will host the "Lights On! Busan- Hokkaido” as a landmark lighting event of symbolic colors of the two cities on December 16, 2021.
The city is hosting the event to strengthen ties between sister and friendship cities to get over the limitations on face-to-face exchanges by expanding sustainable untact exchanges as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hokkaido, northernmost of the four main islands of Japan, possesses unique winter views covered with snow and is a famous tourist attraction. The city of Busan signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Hokkaido on December 14, 2005. Since then the two cities have continuously promoted exchanges.
To celebrate the relationship between Busan and Hokkaido, the lights of Busan's landmarks, including Gwangandaegyo, Busan Cinema Center and Busan Tower, changed to green, Hokkaido’s representative color, while the Sapporo TV Tower in Hokkaido turned blue, the color of Busan, on December 16, 2021.
The lighting hours are as follows.
Gwangandaegyo Bridge: from 8:10 p.m. to 8:20 p.m. and from 9:10 p.m. to 9:20 p.m.
Busan Tower: from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Busan Cinema Center: from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Sapporo TV Tower in Hokkaido: from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
The event has also took place with Sky Tower in Auckland in April, Lover River in Kaohsiung in June, Arcos da Lapa, Monumento a Estácio de Sá in Rio de Janeiro in September and the Dubai Frame in Dubai in November.
For more information, please contact the City Diplomacy Policy Division at (051)888-7761.
