울산공업센터 건립 기념탑 蔚山工業Center建立記念塔 Ulsan Industrial Center Monument | |
Alternate Names: | 공업탑 (工業塔) Gongeoptap (Industrial Tower, Industry Tower) |
Status: | complete |
Start Date: | 1962 |
Completion Date: | 1967 (Tower) 1974 (Garden) |
Building Type: | Monument, Traffic circle |
Location: | Ulsan |
Map Type: | South Korea Ulsan |
Coordinates: | 35.5323°N 129.3075°W |
Ulsan Industrial Center Monument (Korean: 울산공업센터 건립 기념탑), widely known as Gongeoptap (Korean: 공업탑, Industrial Tower), is a monumental tower located in Gongeoptap Rotary, Namgu, Ulsan.
There are 4 epigraphs around the tower: 2 of them are written by dictator and then chairman of Supreme Council for National Reconstruction Park Chung-hee in 1962 and one is written by the monument construct committee in 1967, while the other is written by the city government in 2012.
Gongeoptap Rotary (Korean: 공업탑 로터리, Industrial Tower Rotary Intersection) is a traffic circle that the monument is located. Like the monument's number of pillars, it contains 5 exits (from North and counterclockwise Bongwol-ro, Munsu-ro, Duwang-ro, Suam-ro, Samsan-ro) and is egg-like asymmetric because of this. As it is the most 'rushing' intersection in Ulsan,[1] the rotary has been functioning as de facto bus transfer center, which is in fact not available in the city yet.
There are 4 city bus stops and 2 intercity bus stops which use 'Gongeoptap' name around the rotary, listed in Bus Information System. The stops are: