"Camping with Family at National Parks for Special Travel Week"... Applications Open from the 29th

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Bo-kyung] The Korea National Park Service announced on the 28th that it will operate programs for family visitors during the special travel week from July 1 to 19.

Under the theme of "Family Communication and Healing in Nature," the Service will conduct camping schools at seven national park campgrounds and national park hiking camps with children at Jirisan and Seoraksan.

The camping schools will be held at ▲Jirisan Dalgung Campground ▲Seoraksan Seorakdong Campground ▲Deogyusan Deogyudae Campground ▲Odaesan Sogeumgang Campground ▲Taeanhaean Mongsanpo Campground ▲Chiaksan Geumdae Campground ▲Woraksan Daddonjae Campground.

The national park hiking camps with children will be operated as a 2-night, 3-day course at Jirisan, Korea's first national park, and Seoraksan, which celebrates its 50th anniversary as a national park this year.

The travel week programs are free to participate in, and applications will be accepted from 10 a.m. on the 29th through the National Park Reservation Integrated System (reservation.knps.or.kr).

Camping schools are on a first-come, first-served basis, while the national park hiking camps with children will select participants through a lottery. However, if participants submit documents such as a dispatched medical personnel certificate or a COVID-19 response work confirmation, up to four immediate family members including the participant can be given priority participation.

The Service is practicing social distancing measures to prevent COVID-19 infection, including the use of wireless transceivers for guided tours, mask-wearing, temperature checks, and Q&A verification tests.

Ecotourism areas near national parks have also prepared various programs for the special travel week. Detailed information can be found at Korea's Ecotourism Story (www.ecotour.go.kr, ecotourismstory.blog.me).

Kim Jong-hee, Director of the Exploration Welfare Division at the Korea National Park Service, said, "We hope that children and adolescents, who have faced many restrictions in their daily lives due to COVID-19, will spend meaningful time with their parents in the nature of national parks during the 2020 special travel week."

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