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  • Tourists will have more reasons to visit Seoul just a few years from now.

  • Their new destinations will include stops that feature the old and the new Korea.

  • Kim Jiyeon helps us paint a picture of these new tourist attractions.

  • Foreigners will be able to experience traditional Korean culture at the heart of Seoul... after

  • a construction of a multipurpose cultural facility dubbed the ′K-Experience.′

  • You can see that the site looks like a lump of green for now but that will change in the

  • coming years. Projects like these are part of President Park Geunhye′s cultural

  • policies during the second half of her term... in which she hopes the country thrives through

  • major construction and infrastructure projects like the K-experience.″

  • Korean concertsexhibitions and food are expected to be the main features.

  • But the facility′s surroundings may be one of the most attractive aspects.

  • K-Experience will be built on 36-thousand square meters of landadjacent to Insadong

  • and Samcheongdong shopping districtsall popular tourist destinations.

  • The first phase of construction is expected to be finished by 2017,... spearheaded by

  • the country′s top air carrier Korean Air Lines and the culture ministry.

  • Creation of such tourist landmarks in downtown Seoul is expected to help foreigners rediscover

  • the value of traditional Korean culture.″ The government will also invest 40-point-6-million

  • U.S. dollars to transform a stadium in Seoul′s Olympic Park into an outdoor K-pop concert

  • hall. The music venue will be open 365 days a year

  • and feature the best in sound and lighting equipment.

  • The ministry hopes the value created by developing cultural contents and tourist destinations

  • will boost the local economy. Namiseon Island is an example of the potential

  • gains. Tourism to the island is estimated to have

  • generated more than 2-and-a-halfbillion U.S. dollars after the hit Korean TV drama

  • Winter Sonatawas filmed there. Kim JiyeonArirang News.

Tourists will have more reasons to visit Seoul just a few years from now.

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