Incheon won two Guinness World Records
Incheon won two Guinness World Records including Bupyeong Station and the largest outdoor painting.
The world's largest subterranean shopping complex is a metro station called Bupyeong Station. The mall has 1,400 businesses and is 104,000 square feet large. A metro stop called Bupyeong Station is situated in the South Korean city of Incheon's Bupyeong District. Both the Seoul Subway Line 1 and the Incheon Subway Line 1 stop at this station. Due to its convenient location and link to the Seoul line, it is one of the busiest stations on the Incheon line. A passageway beneath that connects the station is lined with tinier stores that provide a variety of things, including clothing, accessories, electronics, and books. Many of these products are available for less money than they would cost in typical retail stores. The station building also houses a big Lotte Mart store, a food court, retail stores, several eateries, a Uniqlo store, and other businesses.
Additionally, Guinness Globe Records has named an outdoor painting atop a grain silo in the port city of Incheon, west of Seoul, as the largest in the whole world. The mural is 23,688.7 square meters and is 48 meters high, 168 meters long, and 31.5 meters broad. The Pueblo Levee Project in Pueblo, Colorado, previously held the Guinness World Record for the biggest outdoor mural with a surface area of 16,554.8 square meters. Since January of this year, the Incheon city government and Incheon Port Authority have hired 22 painters, paid 550 million won ($487,000), and utilized 865,400 liters of paint to create the mural. The mural's design tells the tale of a young child becoming an adult and is made to look like a whole set of 16 books, each with a cover depicting one of the four seasons: spring, summer, autumn, and winter.
The project, which originated from the community art projects of the 1920s that swept the United States and Mexico and focused on enormous and vibrant murals in an effort to bring residents and businesses together, was part of efforts to improve the negative perception of old industrial facilities, according to the city government and the port operator. Government representatives and the port operator are hoping that the painting would increase tourism on Wolmi Island, one of the most popular tourist destinations close to the Port of Incheon.
