When will the plastic bottle
made for
1988 Hanseong Olympic Game
be vanished?

1988

Imprinted with the five Olympic rings and the year 1988, the plastic bottle brings us back to Hanseong (Seoul), Korea 32 years ago.

A lot has happened during that Olympic Game...

1988

Korea
Hanseong Olympic

Terrorist Attack

North Korean Agent bombing Korean Air Flight 858, killing all 115 people on board attempted to sabotage the Olympics;

Facilitating Democracy

Under the eyes of international audiences, South Korea held the Olympics creating a clean direct election for the president of that time;

Olympics Opening

the Hanseoung Olympics opened on 17 Sep 1988. It was the second time that an Olympics was held in Asia. Noted that the first time was in Japan.

US and USSR on the same stage

After eight years, two terms of Olympic boycotting, the US and the Soviet Union stood on the same stage for the first and final time; The picture shows that USSR(red) defeated US(white) in a basketball match, so USSR obtained a gold medal in this section.

After that, Olympic⋯⋯

1992

Spain
Barcelona Olympic

1996

America
Atlanta Olympic

2000

Australia
Sydney Olympic

2004

Greek
Athens Olympic

2008

China
Beijin Olympic

2012

England
London Olympic

2016

Brazil
Rio Olympic

2020

 

Today, Hanseoung was renamed as Seoul and Soviet Union has ceased to exist. On the other hand, plastic bottles lying on beaches have yet to be decomposed and may even outlive the Olympic Game that has a long history. This 1988 Seoul Olympic special edition Coca-Cola PET bottle is estimated to stay in nature for around 400 years in order to be decomposed naturally.

 

If the Earth still stands undestroyed by humans 400 years later, who will be responsible to collect these bottles? What would they recall when seeing the five Olympic rings?