Wando-gun, Influx of Benchmarking Requests for Marine Healing Center

Public Officials of Taean-gun, Chungnam: "We Came to Learn a Lot"

Taean County officials are visiting the Wando Marine Healing Center and receiving explanations. [Photo by Wando County]

[Wando＝Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Kyungpil] As the Jeonnam Wando-gun Marine Healing Center is set to begin pilot operations in May and officially open in the second half of the year, public officials from Taean-gun, Chungnam visited the site for benchmarking.

According to the county on the 1st, the Wando Marine Healing Center, the first of its kind in Korea, is being constructed with a total project cost of 39 billion KRW at the second parking lot area of Sinji Myeongsasimni Beach. It will have one basement floor, two above-ground floors, and a total floor area of 7,740㎡. The current progress rate is 70%.

The Marine Healing Center will include marine healing therapy facilities utilizing marine healing resources such as seawater, mudflats, and seaweed, as well as training rooms for professional personnel development and management of marine healing resources.

Wando-gun Marine Healing Center Rendering
Photo by Wando-gun

Taean-gun is also planning to establish a Marine Healing Center by 2024 with an investment of 34 billion KRW, consisting of one basement floor, two above-ground floors, and a total building area of 8,543㎡.

An official from Taean-gun who visited the Wando Marine Healing Center said, “There is much to learn by seeing the site in person,” and added, “We hope that Wando-gun, which started first as the big house, will provide much guidance to the smaller house that is just beginning.”

Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Kyungpil ckp6737@asiae.co.kr

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