See how Korea’s Tiger Economy grew with new Korean Industry Tour Guide
The new Korean Industry Tour Guide booklet shows how it took just sixty years for Korea following the devastation of the Korean war to become the seventh largest export country in the world. The new Korean Industry Tour Guide allows visitors to the country to see for themselves Korea’s astounding industrial growth over those years.
Learn about Korea’s remarkable growth from light industry in the 1950’s to the heavy chemical industries of shipbuilding, steel manufacture and petrochemicals in the 1970’s through to the IT industry in the 1990’s and now the high-tech industries of the 2000’s.
With this educational guide visitors can plan to visit electronics/IT companies, the world’s largest steel mill –POSCO where Korea’s industrial growth began, the Hyundai motor car factory and shipbuilding yards where more than 15% of the world’s ships are built as well as kimchi, noodle, soy bean and Korean beer factories.
See Samsung’s D’Light PR Centre in downtown Seoul where visitors can enjoy a ‘digital playground’ and handle all the products exhibited. The Digital Pavilion in a suburb of Seoul is a place where various digital media and cutting-edge IT techonologies are exhibited and can be experienced. Various experience facilities that enable visitors to enjoy the ubiquitous word - where network access is made without limit of time or space.
Visit Pungmi Food Co, south of Seoul where you can have great fun making your own kimchi with their kimchi experience program. The program will give you a greater understanding of how Korea’s most iconic foodstuff is valued by the nation as a health food and is a necessary side-dish of every Korean meal.
The guide also contains great regional information with nearby tourist attractions, must-try delicacies and the best shopping items. Learn all about the production and the immune boosting powers of Korean red ginseng at the Korea Ginseng Corp processing facility.
Samsung’s Green Tomorrow is an eco-friendly zero-energy house on show in an exhibition gallery showcasing the construction, know-how and energy technologies of Samsung C&T Corporation.
If you are planning a visit to Korea then see something different to the general tourist sights and enjoy learning more about how Korea developed as an economic power-house over the past sixty years. |
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Source = KNTO