Andong Lake and Gyeongju Bomun Golf Courses Offer 50% Green Fee Discount for Families with Multiple Children... 11,700 Beneficiaries in 3 Months

Gyeongbuk Culture and Tourism Organization (President Kim Namil) announced on the 11th that, in order to overcome low birth rates and increase the local resident population, it has been implementing a 50% weekday green fee discount event since May 7 for multi-child families (with two or more children under the age of 18) visiting the Bomun and Andong Lake Golf Clubs operated by the organization.

As a result of operating this discount event for three months until the 6th of this month, benefits were provided to 8,158 multi-child family customers at Bomun Golf Club (discount amount: 440 million KRW) and 3,608 at Andong Lake Golf Club (discount amount: 170 million KRW). At the current rate, it is expected that a total of 27,000 multi-child families (discount amount: 1.3 billion KRW) will benefit by the end of the year.

Gyeongju Bomun Golf Course

Gyeongbuk Culture and Tourism Organization is implementing this discount policy for all citizens, not limited to Gyeongbuk residents, in order to foster a supportive childcare environment to overcome low birth rates.

As a result, over the past three months, the regional distribution of users was 42.5% Gyeongbuk residents and 57.5% non-Gyeongbuk residents at Bomun Golf Club, and 74.4% Gyeongbuk residents and 25.6% non-Gyeongbuk residents at Andong Lake Golf Club. The gender ratio of users was 81.7% male and 18.3% female at Bomun Golf Club, and 79.4% male and 20.6% female at Andong Lake Golf Club. In addition, the number of non-Gyeongbuk residents using the facilities has been increasing each month. Especially, due to the nature of golf, which takes about six hours, more golfers are enjoying overnight tourism in Gyeongju and Andong, staying for one or two nights.

Mr. Han (46), who visited Bomun Golf Club from Seoul for summer vacation, expressed satisfaction, saying, "After seeing the multi-child family discount benefit, two families came to Gyeongju for summer vacation. The children can play freely in the Bomun Complex, and the parents can enjoy golf without burden, which makes raising children even more rewarding."

In addition, Mr. Choi (43), who visited Andong Lake Golf Club from Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, said, "At a time when golf course fees in the metropolitan area are skyrocketing, I highly appreciate the effort to provide benefits to multi-child families to address the low birth rate issue, even at the risk of reduced revenue," and added, "If this policy is implemented in other regions as well, it would help reduce the burden of raising children," expressing hope for nationwide expansion.

Kim Namil, President of Gyeongbuk Culture and Tourism Organization, said, "We are holding this event to create a high-quality childcare environment in line with Gyeongsangbuk-do's policy response to the low birth rate issue," and added, "In the future, we will actively develop and promote various programs to increase the living population in the Gyeongbuk region, as well as address the low birth rate problem."

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