Landmark Lighting Event of Symbolic Colors of Busan and its Sister City Dubai
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The City of Busan has announced that it will host the "Lights On! Busan-Dubai” on the occasion of the 15-year sister city relationship between the two cities.
The city is hosting the event to strength 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.
Dubai is the second largest emirate and commercial capital of the United Arab Emirates. Busan and Dubai established a sisterhood relationship on November 13, 2006.
To celebrate the relationship between Busan and Dubai, the lights of Busan's landmarks, including Gwangandaegyo, Busan Cinema Center and Busan Tower, were changed to blue, Dubai’s representative color, while the Dubai Frame in Dubai turned blue, the color of Busan, on November 13, 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 11:00 p.m.
Busan Cinema Center: from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Dubai Frame in Dubai: from 9:00 p.m. until sunrise
The event has also taken 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 is scheduled to be held with the Sapporo TV Tower Hokkaido, Japan in December.
For more information, please contact the City Diplomacy Policy Division at (051)888-7761.
