Tourism Corporation and Kangwon Land Join Hands to Combat Regional Decline Through Tourism in Abandoned Mining Areas

The Korea Tourism Organization announced on the 11th that it has signed a business agreement with Kangwon Land to jointly respond to regional extinction through the revitalization of tourism in abandoned mining areas.

President Kim Jang-sil of Korea Tourism Organization (right) and CEO Lee Sam-geol of Kangwon Land Co., Ltd. (left) attending the business agreement ceremony for joint response to regional extinction.
[Photo by Korea Tourism Organization]

Through this agreement, the Organization and Kangwon Land will continuously cooperate to lead cases of attracting tourists to depopulated areas through public-private collaboration, including ▲promotion of the digital tourism resident ID project ▲discovery of tourism content in abandoned mining areas and development of tourism revitalization programs ▲exchange of tourism big data to strengthen the tourism competitiveness of abandoned mining areas.

Kim Jang-sil, President of the Korea Tourism Organization, said, “We plan to apply the Organization’s capabilities to discover tourism content, develop programs, and provide consulting to enhance tourism competitiveness for the tourism resource development of abandoned mining areas such as the Golmal site and mining facilities, which are idle facilities of Kangwon Land,” adding, “We will cooperate with Kangwon Land to make this a representative case of overcoming the crisis in depopulated areas.”

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