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Geoje Bridge (巨濟大橋) is a bridge connecting Geoje Island and Tongyeong-si, a city in mainland South Korea. Hyundai Engineering & Construction built it, mobilising 330,000 people, and it opened on April 8 , 1971.

Construction began on May 13, 1965 and the bridge was opened on April 8, 1971. It was a two lane bridge, 740m long, 10m wide, and 53m high (26m above sea level, 27m below sea level), and had 20 piers. With the opening of the Geoje Bridge, Geoje Island was connected to the mainland.

The shipbuilding industry which began in Geoje Island in the early 1970s, led to a rapid population increase in Geoje City and the two-lane bridge became inadequate. Hence a new Geoje Bridge was constructed by Lim Kwang Construction as a four-lane bridge and 940m long and 20m wide (roughly parallel to the earlier bridge). Construction began in October 1992 and the new bridge opened on April 22, 1999.