Geochang-gun Hosts Welcome Fam Tour for Foreign Seasonal Workers

Expectations for Geochang-gun Public Relations Ambassador Role

Geochang-gun, Gyeongnam Province announced on the 16th that it conducted a fam tour at Geochang Changpowon and Susungdae tourist sites with the participation of 74 foreign seasonal workers.

This fam tour invited foreign seasonal workers who came from the Philippines seeking jobs to help alleviate labor shortages in rural areas, providing participants with tours of Geochang-gun's representative tourist attractions and various experiential activities such as traditional games.

Geochang-gun, Gyeongnam invited foreign seasonal workers and held a welcome fam tour.

The participants, guided by 31 farms where foreign seasonal workers are employed, boarded a tour bus and began the fam tour schedule at their first destination, Geochang Changpowon, accompanied by an interpreter who is a Filipino marriage immigrant and a cultural tourism guide.

The foreign seasonal workers visiting Geochang Changpowon, a promising small-scale tourist site in Gyeongnam, took memorable photos surrounded by blooming iris, peonies, and cosmos flowers, and transformed their tiring farming days into healing moments of rest through bicycle riding experiences and treasure hunt games.

In particular, the K-food provided for lunch, experiencing Korean traditional pavilion culture at Susungdae, traditional games at Hwangsan Traditional Hanok Village, and making natural cosmetics at the wellness tourist site Haneulhosu offered foreigners a unique tourism course exclusive to Geochang-gun.

County Governor Goo In-mo said, “Through this event, foreign seasonal workers who came from afar to help farms will recognize Geochang-gun as a special place they want to visit again, and I expect all participants to serve as ambassadors promoting Geochang-gun.”

Geochang-gun plans to continuously promote fam tours involving various fields to help foreign seasonal workers adapt early locally and to promote tourist sites.

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.