Taedong Bridge

Taedong Bridge
File:DPRK - (26083558297).png Aerial view of the bridge (2018)
Crosses	Taedong River
Locale	Pyongyang, North Korea
History
Built	1905
Location

Taedong Bridge
Hangul	대동교
Hanja	大同橋
RR	Daedonggyo
MR	Taedonggyo

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

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