CHUNCHEON, South Korea, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The world’s biggest leisure sports festival will be held in the country’s northeastern lake city of Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, next month with foreign and local participants competing in 14 sports events, organizers said Wednesday. The fifth edition of the Chuncheon International Leisure Sports Festival will run from [...]
CHUNCHEON, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s longest skywalk, the Soyang River Skywalk, is set to open on July 1. The city of Chuncheon invested 6.8 billion won to build the 156-meter skywalk, and began construction last December. The new skywalk is an observatory built on top of Uiamho Lake, located west of the city, [...]
CHUNCHEON, Dec.10 (Korea Bizwire) – A character-themed park has opened near the animation museum in Chuncheon. The park will be open after sundown. To boost the attraction as a tourist spot, especially during the night, various lights were installed to illuminate the characters in and around the park, which the employees of the museum landscaped [...]
CHUNCHEON, Dec.7 (Korea Bizwire) – The local government of Chuncheon will start developing the area surrounding the statue of Soyang River Maiden, in a bid to promote the city’s new ‘Sky Walk’ as a tourist spot. Chuncheon officials announced that they will redevelop the park near the statue of Soyang River Maiden into a parking [...]
CHUNCHEON, Jun. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Residents in Chuncheon city’s Sinbuk-eup area held a traditional ritual for calling rain, to soothe pained farmers’ hearts caused by the recent drought, which is the worst the city has seen in the last forty years. About 100 residents and city officials participated in the ritual. Chuncheon saw its [...]
CHUNCHEON, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A major company is planning to develop a government-licensed foreigner-only casino complex on a 4.84 million ㎡ site in Chuncheon and Hongcheon county, where the company is currently developing a resort complex, according to an announcement on May 27. The company, whose name is unknown, will apply for one [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A park dedicated to animation characters will be opened this month at the Animation Museum in Chuncheon. The park will embrace animation figures including characters from the successful animation Goorumbbang, and a real size house which is a rendition of home the characters live in. Visitors will be able to walk [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Gangwon Province plans to build a “coffee theme park” in Chuncheon. Gangwon governor Choi Mun-sun and Chuncheon mayor Choi Dong-yong signed an agreement with Tom N Toms Coffee, a Korean specialty coffee chain with 400 branches in Korea and 27 locations abroad, on August 28. The coffee franchiser reportedly plans [...]