FEATURES: INSTALLATION
The system in use; Ansan Evergreen Gymnasium
Byung-Sun Ahn, Sinwoo; Jung-Yoan Kim, president, Ansan Urban
Corporation; Yang-Sun Yun and Doris Moon, Daikyung Vascom
Gym and tonic
IN SEPTEMBER, SOUTH KOREA WILL
host the XVII Asian Games in and
around the northern city of Incheon.
While it is not one of the Asian
Games’ of cial venues, the newlybuilt Ansan Evergreen Gymnasium
will host volleyball and kabaddi up to
the quarter nal stages. Designed as
a multipurpose space, and featuring
a Renkus-Heinz PN102 line array
system, the gymnasium will be home
to the Ansan volleyball team as well
as staging other sporting events in
its two halls. Eventually, it will also
host music and cultural events.
However in a cruel turn of events,
as the country prepared for the
glory of hosting the games later in
the year, the MV Sewol ferry sank
in April, killing almost 300 people,
many of them school children.
Ansan perhaps experienced the
tragedy particularly sharply; most of
the pupils on board the MV Sewol
were from the nearby Danwon High
School.
In response to the disaster, the
Korean entertainment industry
took a self-imposed break, with
music and cultural events being
cancelled or postponed. Accordingly,
the hall has yet to be used for the
multitude of events it was planned
for. The only major concert to
take place since it opened was a
celebration in December to mark
the 40th anniversary of diplomatic
relations between South Korea
and Indonesia. However Jung-Yoan
Kim, president of Ansan Urban
Corporation, is planning to resume
with some concerts later in the year.
Hopefully the pride of hosting the
Asian Games will help Korea, which
at the time of writing was going
through a clearly painful period of
national mourning, to move forward.
2014 will be the second time
Korea has hosted the Asian Games;
following the 1986 events. This
was closely followed by the 1988
Olympics, and then the FIFA World
Cup in 2002. New venues were
needed for the 2014 event, which
will be held in and around Incheon,
located near t o the country’s capital,
Seoul.
Yang-Su Yun, manager of Daikyung
Vascom’s RPS business division,
takes up the story. ‘This building is
owned by the government, which
isn’t very common for a venue like
this, but if they have big projects
coming up, then they will fund such
a development,’ he says. ‘As the
local council based at Ansan City
Hall wanted to use the centre as a
sports centre as well as a concert
hall, they needed a very good
speaker system. We’ve worked with
the council before, and have had a
very good relationship with them,
which goes back a long time. This
is the largest project we’ve ever
carried out for them. We installed a
system at the Ansan City Hall before
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Daikyung Vascom has installed a Renkus-Heinz
system into a new sports venue in South Korea.
Caroline Moss visits
we handled this project, so they are
familiar with our work, and they really
appreciate the after sales service
we provide. We can repair or replace
anything quickly if required, and
that is why they went with us. Other
strict criteria were sound quality and
functionality, both of which were
extremely important factors in our
choosing Daikyung Vascom to supply
a Renkus-Heinz system.’
Daikyung Vascom won the
contract to provide all audio
equipment for the brand new
venue. The tendering process
was quite a lengthy procedure
and involved working closely with
members of the Ansan council,
revising the design again and again
to come up with something suitable
for the sports hall that would suit
the council’s budget.
Jung-Yoan Kim, president of Ansan Urban Corporation, at the controls of the Avid Venue