Dongdaemun Stadium, in Seoul, South Korea, comprises a soccer field, a baseball park, and other sports facilities. It was constructed in 1926 and remained the main center for sports events in Seoul until the Seoul Sports Complex was built for the 1988 Olympic Games.
It is often used for special events, for example the first ever game of the Korean baseball league was held here in 1982.
It is located near the Dongdaemun or Great East Gate and the surrounding Dongdaemun market has many vendors selling athletics related goods.
The Jamsil Olympic Stadium (formerly Anglicized Chamshil) in Seoul, South Korea was the main stadium built for the 1988 Summer Olympics, and is the centrepiece of the Jamsil Sports Complex in the Songpa-gu District, in the southeast of the city south of the Han River.
Prior to its construction, Seoul's largest venues were DongdaemunStadium and Hyochang Stadium.
The stadium opened on September 29, 1984, and served as the site for the 10th Asian Games two years later, then the Olympics in 1988.
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