Demilitarized Zone - Northkorea/Southkorea
Workshop, Seoul Southkorea .2000
"Swimming field - Soccer stadium for Worldcup 2002"
Capacity: unlimited

For the Football Worldcup 2002 a soccer stadium is proposed exactly at the borderline between North- and Southkorea swimming in the River Han. According to the agreement between North and Southkorea from 1953 “the waters of the Han River Estuary shall be open to civil shipping of BOTH sides wherever one bank is controlled by one side and the other is controlled by the other side”. This means it would be legally possible to use the space “inbetween”.

In the River Han we have chosen the site with the smallest distance of the DMZ-line (Demilitarized Zone - Line) which is on the site only about 700 meters. So people from both countries could easily join the event. It is possible to join the games from the air or from the ground or - having a boat in the river: In the River Han North- and Southkoreans could come together, MERGE together, as they are both allowed by law to use this “neutral” space. Forbidden communication will be possible, even if it might be a problematic conversation about boat crashes because there will be thousands of boats coming from each side for "the game" and there might be no place anymore for water.