The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, indoor theme park, First World Plaza 1 segment Hotels, casino, theme parks – the Genting Highlands Resort, about 50 kilometers Northeast of Kuala Lumpur, offers fun, games, excitement, entertainment and recreation for the whole family. The First Word Plaza, one of the theme parks, houses one of eight overseas branches […]
Location: Peace Park 5 segments Close to the North Korean border, several units of US American and Korean soldiers are stationed to protect Seoul (which is accessible by subway) against attacks from the North. For the 60th anniversary of the armistice agreement in 2013 between North and South Korea, which ended the Korean War, the […]
Location: Campus of Konkuk University 1 segment from Brandenburg Gate The World Language Stones on the campus of Konkuk University symbolize the languages of the world. Germany has maintained a segment of the Berlin Wall – a sign of the overcoming of separation, as hope for the still separated North and South Korea. This piece of the Berlin […]
Location: Jeju April 3rd Peace Park 2 segments from Potsdamer Platz Jeju is a Southern barrier island of South Korea, on the edge to Japanese territory. As a result of the ideological struggles between the political left and right wings after the independence of Korea from the Japanese colonial reign, the population suffered from excessive massacres. In memory […]
Location: in front of TÜV Rheinland Japan Ltd. building 1 segment from Waldemarstraße Due to the close economic relations between Germany and Japan, TÜV Rheinland Japan was founded in 1978. In 2005, the year of the opening of the state-of-the-art Global Technology Assessment Center in Yokohama, a Wall segment was placed on the freely accessible area […]
Location: Museum of Ueno 2 segments The close relationship between Germany and Miyako-jima, the main island of Miyako Islands, dates back to a shipwreck in the late 19th century. Back then, a tea-laden German schooner smashed on the coral reefs of the coast of the Japanese outpost on the border to Taiwan. Eight sailors were rescued […]
Location: on the site of Nihon Bisoh 1 segment from Brandenburg Gate Modern office buildings would quickly fade without costly cleaning and maintenance work on the facade. The Japanese company Nihon Bisoh specializes exactly that work and the development and provision of appropriate facades lifts. Exterior walls are the field of activity of the company. For this reason, […]
Location: Toukokuji Tempel 2 segments According to the legend, the sanctuary in the center of Osaka, the temple in the Eastern valley, goes back on Korean immigrants, who settled here in the 7th century. The two segments of the Wall, standing here since 1998, are a donation of two Koreans. Along with it goes their request to […]
Location: Maruho Co. Ltd. 1 segment from Checkpoint Charlie For almost 100 years the Berlin pharmaceutical manufacturer Dr. Kade maintains business contacts with the Japanese pharmaceutical company Maruho. Their CEO Jiro Takagi followed the developments in Germany in 1989 with great anticipation. When the Wall came down, Takagi addressed his German business partner, wanted him to […]
Location: in front of Teguh Ostenrik’s studio 4 segments As an art student in Berlin in the 1970s, the Indonesian artist Teguh Ostenrik, was at night equipped with spray cans at the Wall. Reason enough for him to return years later to witness first hand the fall of the Wall, and to purchase four Wall segments […]