NAMHAE, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A new observatory has been built in Namhae County, South Gyeongsang Province, where visitors can enjoy views of Dado Beach and a coastal cliff that stretches down 30 meters below. Namhae County has invested 8.3 billion won (US$7.1 million) and recently completed a construction of a skywalk. The observatory [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of visitors to Seoullo 7017, an overpass-turned-walkway in central Seoul, recently reached 20 million, the city government said Wednesday. The milestone comes almost two-and-half years after May 2017, when the Seoul Metropolitan Government opened the elevated garden and pathway on the remains of an old overpass as [...]
CHANGWON, Jul. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Atop a picturesque bridge that hangs over the ocean, linking Gusan-myeon in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province and the island of Jeodo, lie two special mailboxes that are attracting visitors from afar to mail letters to be delivered in the future. Last year, the concrete walkway of the Jeodo Bridge [...]
PAJU, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Dokgae Bridge, located some 40 kilometers north of Seoul and eight kilometers south of the DMZ, connects the north and south banks of the Imjin River, near Imjingak. It was built in 1906 as a railway bridge, and as a set of two bridges – northbound and southbound. The [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]