CHUNCHEON, Mar. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Legoland Chuncheon theme park is finally speeding up towards completion after seven years of stalemate, but there are still concerns over the choice of a construction firm, the date of the grand opening, and financing. “If Merlin Entertainments decides not to accept STX as partner, then Gangwon Province [...]
CHUNCHEON, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — British-based Merlin Entertainments, the operator of Legoland, recently announced an agreement with South Korea’s Gangwon provincial government on the construction of the world’s 10th Legoland in the province. Legoland Korea will be built on the island of Hajungdo in Chuncheon, 85 kilometers east of Seoul, to open by 2022, [...]
CHUNCHEON, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Chuncheon in Gangwon Province announced on January 9 that it will create a forest to prevent air pollution caused increasing fine dust emissions. The forest will be created on the site of a shuttered U.S. military base downtown. Only 15 hectares of the base will be [...]
CHUNCHEON, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Chuncheon, Gangwon Province has decided to hire more foreign workers to assist farmers during the farming season after receiving satisfactory feedback from farmers who participated in a similar project this year. The program hires temporary foreign workers who, after entering South Korea, are sent to local [...]
CHUNCHEON, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Jungdo neighborhood in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, chosen for the construction of South Korea’s first Legoland, will also be home to a prehistoric theme park. LL Development Co. announced on Wednesday that it will build the Jungdo Prehistoric Theme Park in the 110,000㎡ cultural properties reservation zone. LL Development [...]
CHUNCHEON, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Chuncheon in northeastern South Korea is set to hold a K-pop concert to highlight the 2018 World Leisure Games, which will kick off later this month, organizers said Friday. The concert will start at 7 p.m. on Aug. 25, one day after the opening of the [...]
CHUNCHEON, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The Chuncheon city government’s development plans for land previously occupied by a U.S. Army base are back on track after years of struggle. Chuncheon’s latest redevelopment project, which is set to take place sometime this year, will see a multi-purpose park built on the site of former U.S. Army Camp [...]
CHUNCHEON, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Referred to as “Lake City” for its proximity to water, the city of Chuncheon in Gangwon Province is aiming to adopt a new moniker with its National Leisure Sports Festival to be held on August 25. Chuncheon’s road to becoming a domestic hub of leisure sports is a winding [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Chuncheon, a city in Gangwon Province, is set to reopen a water park built on a site previously occupied by a U.S. military base next month after the success it experienced last year, attracting more than 50,000 visitors. This summer, the Ggumjaram water garden, on which the city government [...]
CHUNCHEON, South Korea, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – A walk on Chuncheon’s Soyang River Skywalk, a major tourism attraction featuring a transparent glass bridge, may not be as much of a thrill as some were hoping it might be, resulting in the scaling back of plans for the facility’s expansion. The Skywalk is a glass [...]