It was within the DMZ, a forest path visited by 10,000 folks a 12 months.[여행의 기분]

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2024-05-22 20:21:06

Information on this season’s journey locations summarized by Dong-A Ilbo. Take a look at our e-newsletter each Thursday.

A abstract of this week’s journey locations

“DMZ forest highway saves the realm” (383 Hyeon-ri, Haean-myeon, Yanggu-gun, Gangwon-do *Reservation required)
The ‘Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) Punchbowl Forest Street’ in Haean-myeon, Yanggu-gun, Gangwon-do is the one forest highway inside the northernmost civilian management line in Korea. It was given this identify as a result of it resembles a punch bowl. As phrase of mouth spreads in regards to the historic and ecological forest path, vacationers are flocking to it. There’s a restrict to the variety of guests per day, so you could make a reservation prematurely by means of the hyperlink under earlier than visiting.
(https://www.foresttrip.go.kr/indvz/principal.do?hmpgId=ID05030002)

Seoul Worldwide Backyard Expo (Ttukseom Hangang Park, 139 Gangbyeonbuk-ro, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul)
The Seoul Worldwide Backyard Expo opened on the sixteenth. This occasion began happening in 2015. This can be a website the place you may expertise 76 gardens and backyard tradition participated by home and overseas college students, residents, foreigners, corporations, and establishments. Please benefit from the consolation and contemplation that the backyard brings.

Chungcheongbuk-do is heat with pageant fever (throughout Chungcheongbuk-do)
In Might, often known as the ‘Queen of the Seasons’, varied native governments in North Chungcheong Province welcome guests with a wealthy program of festivals the place they will take pleasure in varied tastes and types. The Eumseong Pumba Pageant is held in Eumseong, and the Sobaeksan Azalea Pageant is held in Danyang.

1. 10,000 folks go to a mountain village with a inhabitants of 1,200 yearly… “DMZ forest highway saves the realm”

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On the DMZ Punchbowl Forest Path, many guests stopped at each nook and seemed carefully on the flowers. Customer Received Myeong-ok (68) stated, “Maybe as a result of there are usually not many guests, lots of wild flowers that I haven’t seen anyplace else have bloomed.” On this morning, 38 guests, together with Mr. Received, loved the forest wearing mild inexperienced spring garments whereas listening to the forest interpreter’s rationalization. There are nonetheless unidentified land mines right here, so you may solely go to this place if you’re accompanied by a forest mountain climbing teacher. Guests per day are restricted to 200. As a substitute, you may see uncommon crops resembling Geumgang Lantern and wild animals resembling mountain goats and lynxes.

The forest highway has turn into a precious supply of tourism earnings for native residents whose improvement was restricted because of the limitations of being a civilian management zone close to the DMZ. Specifically, ’13 Chan Forest Rice’, which is served as a buffet in the midst of the tour course, has turn into a consultant meals and content material of the DMZ forest path. Forest Rice is offered beneath contracts with 2 or 3 farms in Haean-myeon by DMZ Punchbowl Forest Street, an included affiliation. 5% of the entire gross sales, which quantities to a median of 58 million received per 12 months, goes to the company, and the remaining goes to the earnings of residents who offered forest meals. Though the promoting worth is simply 10,000 received, it’s stated that this was a chance to safe a technique to promote agricultural and marine merchandise by means of courier supply. CEO Park stated, “We have now prospects who come to eat forest meals 5 occasions a 12 months, so we’re pleased with our work.”

2. Studying coexistence within the backyard

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It appears that evidently backyard gala’s are lastly coming into the lives of residents in Seoul. I noticed hope after I noticed folks of all ages having enjoyable on the Seoul Worldwide Backyard Expo (till October 8), which opened at Ttukseom Hangang Park in Seoul on the sixteenth. The Seoul Backyard Expo has been held at World Cup Park in Mapo-gu, Seoul and Yeouido Park in Yeongdeungpo-gu since 2015, nevertheless it felt prefer it was in a league of its personal. This 12 months is the primary time it’s held at Hangang Park. I assumed the accessibility and stage was the most effective ever.

The town of Seoul expanded the present backyard honest into a global occasion, creating 76 gardens on the most important website ever (roughly 200,000 ㎡). The theme is ‘Seoul, Inexperienced Vibe’. Whenever you come out of Exit 2 of Jayang Station on Subway Line 7, a ‘free’ backyard tour begins with the cool Han River within the background. There’s a excessive likelihood that the ‘Plant God’ will descend on you on the backyard middle on the expo, so we suggest that you just put together sturdy arms and a procuring cart. It’s stated that the gardens will stay even after the expo ends, which makes me envious of the lives of close by residents.

3. Might in North Chungcheong Province turns pink

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The Eumseong Pumba Pageant, the one religious and cultural pageant within the nation, can be held in Eumseong Seolseong Park and the Kkottongnae space from the twenty second to the twenty sixth beneath the theme of ‘Pumbaa, turning into a 25-year-old youth.’ This pageant, which has been designated because the Tradition and Tourism Pageant by the Ministry of Tradition, Sports activities and Tourism for 7 consecutive years and the most effective pageant in North Chungcheong Province for 9 consecutive years, started in 2000 to honor the late grandfather Choi Gwi-dong, who constructed ‘Eumseong Kkottonne,’ the most important social welfare facility in Korea.

The Danyang Sobaeksan Azalea Pageant can be held from the twenty third to the twenty sixth at Sangsang Avenue and Sobaeksan Mountain in Danyang-eup, Danyang-gun, beneath the theme of ‘Azalea, coloured with mild!’ This 12 months’s pageant, which celebrates its fortieth anniversary, begins with the Mountain God Pageant at Sobaeksan Mountain Yeonhwabong and the seventh Korea Silver Tune Pageant on the primary day, adopted by △Azalea Pageant fortieth Anniversary Opening Live performance △Azalea HERO Stroll with World Imaginative and prescient △Danyang Dialect Contest △Azalea Ending Live performance △Sobaeksan Nationwide Park A hike to Mt. Sobaek with the Northern Workplace can be held.

The ‘2024 Pink Style Pageant’, held from the twenty fourth to the twenty sixth on the Goesan-gun Natural Expo Sq. and the Dongjin Riverside space beneath the theme of ‘Making Goesan Sizzling’, is the primary occasion held this 12 months. It was designed to advertise Goesan by means of the colour pink, which is harking back to Goesan’s consultant agricultural merchandise, peppers, and spring flowers, resembling poppies and zinnias. A million poppies and zinnias appeared on 10,000 m2 of waterfront close to the occasion venue.

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