Gyeongnam Governor Park Wansu: "A New Landmark on the South Coast" ... Envisioning a Future City in Dubai

Park Wan-su, Governor of Gyeongnam Province, visited Nakheel, a state-owned enterprise in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and the Museum of the Future on the 19th.

According to Gyeongnam Province, Governor Park headed to Dubai to envision Gyeongnam’s future city and to find future vision plans for the aerospace industry and aerospace complex city.

Park Wan-su, Governor of Gyeongnam Province (fourth from the left), is touring Nakheel in Dubai with Hong Tae-yong, Mayor of Gimhae (third from the left).
[Photo by Gyeongnam Provincial Government]

Governor Park toured the site while listening to Nakheel officials explain the core strategies and success stories of urban development projects such as the creation process of Palm Jumeirah.

Nakheel was established as a private state-owned enterprise in 2000 and is headquartered in Dubai, UAE.

The palm tree-shaped artificial island “Palm Jumeirah,” created by Nakheel, is part of the Palm Islands project and was completed in January 2006. The total area of the 18 islands is equivalent to about 800 soccer fields, making it the largest in the world today.

Governor Park said, “To make the southern coast a world-class tourist destination, it is necessary to create a new landmark like Palm Jumeirah in Gyeongnam,” and requested continuous cooperation in the future.

Gyeongnam Province plans to analyze the success factors of Dubai’s urban development projects and utilize them for island development and tourism content creation within the province.

Park Wan-su, Governor of Gyeongnam Province (center), is touring the Dubai Future Museum.
[Photo by Gyeongnam Provincial Government]

Afterward, Governor Park headed to the “Museum of the Future” in Dubai, called the “gateway to the world beyond 50 years.”

He visited the museum to personally experience how next-generation solutions integrating all technologies from artificial intelligence to augmented reality can improve life.

The Museum of the Future, which opened last year, focuses on allowing visitors to experience the infinite possibilities of the future beyond the present.

Its exterior is shaped like a spaceship that seems to visit a space station by rocket, and it is designed to offer glimpses into various futures such as space travel, future living, climate change, and ecosystems.

Gyeongnam Province explored strategies for South Korea to leap forward as a space aerospace powerhouse by directly experiencing various exhibitions related to the space industry and sought ways to apply the future vision of establishing an aerospace agency and an aerospace complex city.

On this day, Governor Park and the overseas business trip team completed their 4-night, 5-day schedule in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which began on the 16th, to confirm the registration of the Gaya Tumuli as a World Heritage site and to seek the future city vision of Gyeongnam.

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