"Take the Donghae Line to Pohang"... Pohang City Goes All Out to Attract Tourists Commemorating Donghae Line Opening

Early Launch of Group Tour Incentive Support Program Boosts Atmosphere

Accommodation and Transportation Discount Promotions Supported for Individual Travelers' Convenience

Pohang City is preparing various events for train passengers using the Donghae Line ahead of its opening on January 1 next year, aiming to attract tourists.

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To maximize the influx of group tourists with the opening of the Donghae Line, the "Tour Operator Incentive Support Project" will be implemented early starting from the 1st of next month.

This project provides incentives to travel agencies that attract group tourists of 10 or more people, based on support criteria such as type of tourism (day trips or overnight stays) and number of participants.

It is expected that this project will also benefit tourists visiting the "Homigot Korean Peninsula Sunrise Festival," held at Homigot, a famous sunrise spot in Pohang. For more details about the incentive project, please refer to the Pohang City website.

Additionally, the city is planning accommodation and transportation discount promotions to improve travel convenience not only for group tourists but also for individual visitors to Pohang.

In collaboration with the domestic travel platform Yanolja, a lodging discount event will be held early next year for travelers visiting Pohang, along with a tourist taxi discount service to facilitate transportation within Pohang.

From January 1 to 15, the first two weeks of the Donghae Line’s full operation, an SNS comment quiz event will be held to commemorate the opening. Among those who answer the quiz correctly on Pohang’s official SNS (Instagram and Facebook), 50 winners will be selected by lottery to receive Starbucks coupons. Certifying a reservation for the Donghae Line bound for Pohang increases the chances of winning.

In addition to the online event, at Wolpo Station (operating only on weekends and holidays) and Pohang Station Tourist Information Center, tourists who get off at these stations after January 1 and present their Donghae Line train tickets will receive a limited number of Pohang tourism souvenirs on a first-come, first-served basis.

A Pohang city official said, “We will also conduct familiarization tours for train travel specialist agencies early in the year to develop various travel products featuring Pohang’s unique themes,” adding, “We hope the full opening of the Donghae Line will be an opportunity for Pohang, a marine tourism city in the East Sea Rim, to become a city with ten million tourists.”

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