JEONGSEON, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The Jeongseon County government in Gangwon Province announced on August 7 its plans to renovate the aging facilities surrounding Najeon Station, a small railway stop that has become an unexpected tourist attraction. Najeon Station, once a bustling hub when it opened in 1969, saw its fortunes decline with the [...]
JEONGSEON, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Mine cars that were used to carry coal from mines will be transformed into a tourist attraction. The northeastern county of Jeongseon in Gangwon Province announced that it will set up a mine car ride tour using the old mine track in the Gohan village area. The mine cars [...]
JEONGSEON, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Hwaam Cave, located in Jeongseon County, some 200 kilometers east of Seoul, is setting new daily visitor records with the start of the summer vacation season. A total of 1,927 people visited the cave on Monday, setting a new record. The cave was visited by 6,694 people in four [...]
JEONGSEON, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeongseon County in Gangwon Province, home to an abandoned mining town, has been reborn as an exhibition space for artwork. The county’s urban renewal support center carried out a “one-pyong art” project to install artworks by utilizing topographical features in an alley on 650 Street. The artworks are based [...]
JEONGSEON, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — An abandoned mining village located in Jeongseon County, Gangwon Province has been transformed into a new tourism attraction dedicated to mountain biking. Jeongseon County held an opening ceremony for a hostel in the Yemi MTB (mountain bike) village on Tuesday. Yemi MTB Village Hostel is a lodging facility for [...]
JEONGSEON, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Bugs Land in Jeongseon County, Gangwon Province, a new concept amusement facility equipped with a virtual reality (VR) technology, is gaining popularity. Bugs Land is a monorail amusement facility offering rides on a sky bike to experience the world of insects. The monorail is 7 meters high and 540 [...]
JEONGSEON, South Korea, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) –A walking festival will open later this week on an Olympic trail in the South Korean mountain county of Jeongseon to wish for the success of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, an official said Monday. The 131.7-kilometer Olympic Aribau Trail links the Olympic cities of PyeongChang, Gangneung and [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) – An abandoned mine area in Gangwon Province is hoping to return to its previous glory, this time as a sanctuary for endangered animals. On Wednesday June 14, the Wonju Regional Environmental Office released Parnassius bremeri butterflies, Manchurian trout, and Chinese minnows across the High1 Resort area with the help of [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – As a surprising number of local governing bodies around Korea are currently developing or planning cable car installations in their district to boost tourism, hoping to follow in the footsteps of a successful project in Tongyeong, several environmental organizations are opposing the idea, saying that the attractions are not without [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The signboard of a store in a small town in Gangwon province has been reborn as a work of art. Through the 2014 village art project entitled “The Twice More Joy Project,” the Village Art Project Committee and Jeongseon-gun transformed 38 commercial signboards from Hwaam-ri into works of art. [...]