Shinan-gun Selected as the 'Best Travel Destination' by Train Travelers

An Average of 700 Visitors Per Day at '1004 Museum Park' and 'Purple Island'

Anjwa Banwol and Bakji Island connected by Purple Bridge to 'Purple Island' (Photo by Sinan-gun)

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Seo Young-seo] Sinan-gun, Jeollanam-do (Governor Park Woo-ryang) was selected as the 'Best Travel Destination' chosen by readers and experts at the 2020 SRT Awards and received the grand prize.

According to Sinan-gun on the 13th, SRT Magazine selected 10 cities including Sinan as the best travel destinations of the year.

Used by 36 million people annually, SRT started in 2018 and is now in its third year. Each year, it selects the best travel destinations through surveys of passengers and evaluations by travel writers and travel expert journalists.

Sinan-gun's '1004 Museum Park' in Jaeun-myeon, which includes the Su-seok Garden, Su-seok Museum, and the World Shell Museum, is a marine complex cultural site. It features a museum and park with unique themes on 500,000㎡ (70 times the size of a soccer field) of Yangsan Beach, known for its beautiful pine forest, and opened in August, attracting 10,000 visitors.

In particular, Anjwa Banwol and Bakji-do 'Purple Island,' which has gained fame beyond Asia to the world, recorded 100,000 visitors within 100 days of its proclamation ceremony, averaging 700 visitors per day. This is considered the first successful case in South Korea of creating a color image for an entire island.

Governor Park Woo-ryang stated, "With the outbreak of COVID-19, the value of islands has become even more important, and marketing using Sinan's colors is seeing success several years earlier than expected. Since it is not yet complete, we plan to develop it into South Korea's representative island resort (non-face-to-face tourist destination)."

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