Haeundae LCT The Sharp () is a major
urban development
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project in
Jung-dong,
Haeundae District
Haeundae District () is a district (Administrative divisions of South Korea, ''gu'') of Busan, South Korea.
Haeundae has a population of about 423,000, the most populous district of Busan with 11.6% of the city population, and covers an area of ...
,
Busan
Busan (), officially Busan Metropolitan City, is South Korea's second list of cities in South Korea by population, most populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.3 million as of 2024. Formerly romanized as Pusan, it is the economi ...
, South Korea. Located in front of
Haeundae Beach
Haeundae Beach () is an urban beach in Busan, South Korea, located in the eponymous Haeundae District.
It is one of Busan's most popular tourist attractions and one of South Korea's most popular beaches. It is open around the year, and hosts a va ...
, it consists of a , 101-floor
supertall
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landmark tower used as a hotel, and two 85-floor residential skyscrapers. It has an urban entertainment complex at the base housing a
shopping mall
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, a hot spring
spa
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and a
water park
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. The landmark tower houses luxury and residential hotels with a
convention center
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and an
observatory
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Th ...
on the 100th floor.
The towers are Busan's 2nd-4th supertall
skyscraper
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s after
Haeundae Doosan We've the Zenith, tall. LCT tower is the second-tallest tower
in South Korea after the
Lotte World Tower
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in Seoul and is one of the world's top 10 most expensive skyscrapers.
Haeundae LCT The Sharp was completed and opened on November 30, 2019. In 2022, Haeundae LCT The Sharp hosted an exhibition for
''Proof'', the anthology album of the South Korean group
BTS
BTS (), also known as the Bangtan Boys, is a South Korean boy band formed in 2010. The band consists of Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook, who co-write or co-produce much of their material. Originally a hip hop group, they ...
, documenting the act's nine-year career. The exhibition was planned by the band's entertainment agency, HYBE, which invited fans to immerse themselves in a visual trail of BTS' history.
On February 20, 2024, Busan police began an investigation in search of two jumpers who leaped with parachutes from the top of the 99th floor observation deck of the Haeundae LCT.
Gallery
File:Haeundae Beach 20170713.jpg, July 2017
File:LCT from Haeundae Beach 2018.02.24.jpg, February 2018
File:M702nPe L8E.jpg, November 2019
File:HaeundaeLCT atNight.jpg, Completed buildings seen from Haeundae Beach, August 2022.
See also
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List of tallest buildings in Busan
This list of tallest buildings in Busan ranks skyscrapers in the South Korean city of Busan by height. Most of the city's tallest buildings are concentrated in Marine City and Centum City, an area just west of the famed Haeundae Beach, Haeundae be ...
*
List of tallest buildings in South Korea
This list ranks skyscrapers in South Korea by height. The tallest building in South Korea is currently the 123-story Lotte World Tower, which rises and was completed on 22 December 2016. It is also the list of tallest buildings, world's sixth ta ...
References
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Buildings and structures in Busan
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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill buildings
Residential buildings completed in 2019
2019 establishments in South Korea
Haeundae District
Skyscrapers in Busan