'Future Job Festival' to Be Held Around Goyang Hwajeon Station

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Gyeonggi Province and the Gyeonggi Tourism Organization will hold the '2023 Goyang Future Job Festival' on the 15th, 16th, and 23rd of this month at Hwajeon Station Plaza on the Gyeongui-Jungang Line in Goyang City and around the Korea Aerospace University campus.

This festival is organized through the collaboration of Hwajeon Village Management Social Cooperative, Korea Aerospace University, and local residents, focusing on tourism content that highlights the characteristics of Goyang Hwajeon-dong, a drone-specialized area, to attract tourists' interest.

The area is designated as a military protection zone and includes Hwajeon Village, which has been frozen since the 1970s, Hwajeon-dong Mural Village spanning over 4 km of alleys, and Korea Aerospace University, a specialized university for aerospace science.

At Hwajeon Station Plaza, the 'Hwajeon Station Time Travel Concert' will be held featuring performances by the local Deokyang Middle School dance team and orchestra, along with various hands-on experiences such as making your own spinning top, 'Ssing Ssing Five-Color Top.'

Students from Korea Aerospace University will participate in and operate activities including ▲Creating the Sky: Model Aircraft Structure Making ▲Making Hot Air Balloons and Helium Balloons ▲Airplane Shooting Master: Learning the Principles of Control ▲Drone Mini-Games, which will take place at the university campus and Hwajeon Station Plaza.

For detailed information and reservations related to the event, visit the blog of H Story Co., Ltd., the co-organizer of the festival.

Choi Yong-hoon, Director of the Tourism Industry Division of Gyeonggi Province, stated, "The '2023 Goyang Future Job Festival' is significant as it is a community-led tourism content created through cooperation between local residents of Hwajeon-dong and students of Korea Aerospace University." He added, "We hope that both young people dreaming of aviation and the general public interested in the drone industry will participate in the festival and that it will grow into an educational tourism content."

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