Yeosu Marine Park Area Reborn as 'Namdo Food Street'

by Heo Seonsik

Published 17 Aug.2023 17:45(KST)

Updated 15 Aug.2025 10:35(KST)

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Seafood Samhap Street Selected for Jeonnam Province Namdo Food Street Contest

The area around the Marine Park, a representative tourist destination of Yeosu Night Sea, is being reborn as a Namdo Food Street with a total of 1 billion KRW invested in a food-specialized street development project.

Yeosu City (Mayor Jeong Gi-myeong) announced on the 17th that Haemul Samhap Street within the Marine Park was finally selected as the target site for the “2023 Namdo Food Street Development Project” led by Jeollanam-do, securing 500 million KRW in provincial funding.

[Photo by Yeosu City]

The “Namdo Food Street Development Project” has been promoted by Jeollanam-do since 2016 to revitalize the local economy by building food tourism infrastructure within the province. This year, Yeosu City was finally selected along with Naju City through a public contest.

Accordingly, Yeosu City plans to invest a total of 1 billion KRW, including 500 million KRW in provincial funds, by 2024 to carry out environmental improvement projects in the Marine Park area, such as installing sculptures, convenience facilities, directional signs for route connections, improving outdoor signage, and installing smart information kiosks.

In the previous contest, since the 2012 Yeosu World Expo, Yeosu Night Sea and Romantic Pocha have emerged as representative tourist attractions of Yeosu, and the nearby Samhap Street has also established itself as a representative tourism content of Yeosu City.

Visitors can enjoy fresh and diverse seafood dishes from the region while viewing the night scenery of Dolsan Bridge and Yeosu Night Sea. The area also has good accessibility to Yeosu’s representative tourist spots such as Odongdo, Dolsan Park, Jinnamgwan, Yi Sun-sin Square, and the Yeosu World Expo site, which has been highly evaluated in terms of food tourism competitiveness linked to tourism resources.

Shin Jun-seop, head of the Public Health Center, stated, “The selection for the Namdo Food Street contest will activate diverse local food tourism, serving as a stepping stone toward continuously attracting tourists and realizing Yeosu as a key port city on the southern coast.”