Top 100 Must-Visit Tourist Attractions for Koreans 2023-2024... Busan City Selects 8 Locations

Ministry of Culture and Korea Tourism Organization Select Top 100 Tourist Attractions Every Two Years

Taejongdae Amusement Park Honored for 6 Consecutive Times Since First Selection in 2013

Taejongdae Resort, Busan's representative tourist destination selected for 6 consecutive times.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Dong-guk] Busan City announced that a total of eight places have been selected for the ‘Korea Tourism 100’, a must-visit tourist attraction for Koreans: ▲Taejongdae Resort Park ▲Haeundae & Songjeong Beaches ▲Gamcheon Culture Village ▲Yongdusan & Jagalchi Tourist District ▲Yonggung Cloud Bridge & Songdo Beach ▲Osiria Tourist Complex ▲X the Sky & Green Railway ▲Gwangalli Beach & SUP Zone.

The ‘Korea Tourism 100’ has been jointly selected and announced every two years since 2013 by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Tourism Organization, highlighting 100 outstanding tourist destinations representing Korea. This is the 6th time the list has been compiled.

After recommendations from local governments and others, twice the number of preliminary candidates are identified, followed by a first round of written evaluations (qualitative and quantitative), a second round of on-site evaluations, and finally a third round of final selection committee deliberations to determine the 100 destinations.

Among the eight Busan tourist attractions selected for the ‘Korea Tourism 100’, ▲‘Taejongdae Resort Park’ has been selected consecutively for all six times since the first round, establishing itself as a representative tourist destination of Busan; ▲‘Haeundae & Songjeong Beaches’, loved by both domestic and international visitors, has been selected five times; ▲‘Gamcheon Culture Village’, known as an open-air museum and Korea’s Machu Picchu, has been selected four times; ▲‘Yongdusan & Jagalchi Tourist District’, where visitors can experience the film festival and the history of Busan’s old downtown; ▲‘Yonggung Cloud Bridge & Songdo Beach’, where visitors can feel the thrill of walking over the sea, has been selected three times. These selections have helped Busan promote its image nationwide as a city with many places to visit, befitting its status as an international tourism city.

Eight tourist attractions in Busan among the 'Top 100 Korean Tourist Attractions' that Koreans must visit.

Additionally, ▲‘X the Sky’, where visitors can enjoy thrilling sea views and nightscapes from the 100th floor of LCT Landmark Tower, the tallest building in Busan, and ‘Green Railway’, a citizen rest area (coastal promenade) reborn from the abandoned Donghae Nambu Line railway; ▲‘Gwangalli Beach & Paddle Board (SUP) Zone’, Korea’s top paddle boat (SUP) mecca and a marine sports landmark in Busan; ▲‘Osiria Tourist Complex’, popular among the MZ generation with attractions such as Lotte World Adventure and Skyline Luge, were selected for the 100 list for the first time this year.

Yu Gyu-won, Director of the Tourism MICE Bureau of Busan City, said, “Busan is attracting global attention as a city that people around the world want to visit, having been selected as one of National Geographic’s ‘Top 25 Travel Destinations of 2023.’ In celebration of the 2023 Year of Korean Tourism, we plan to actively discover and nurture various tourism contents so that more domestic and international tourists can visit Busan, an international tourism city.”

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