Korean Travel Online - R16 Ticket Giveaway Winners

Congratulations to the winners:


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First Name	Last Name	Prize
Mini	Choi	2 VIP Tickets
Connie	Chung	2 R-seat Tickets
Mimsie	Ladner	2 S-seat Tickets
Shereen	Tan	2 S-seat Tickets
Taimatariki	Mihaere	2 S-seat Tickets
Julie	Cho	2 S-seat Tickets
Cassandra	Smith	2 S-seat Tickets
Crystel	Agustin	2 S-seat Tickets
Pusitraporn	Bach	2 S-seat Tickets
Alyssa	Beyer	2 S-seat Tickets
Alyssa	Liew	2 S-seat Tickets
John	Gaska	2 S-seat Tickets

 

TWITTER:witter ID

Twitter ID	Prize
‏@SummerLyng	2 VIP Tickets
@Aya190691	2 VIP Tickets
@xblazingx	2 R-seat Tickets
‏@EllenGB	2 R-seat Tickets

To claim your prize, send an email to asia_english@knto.or.kr with the subject "R16 Tickets" and include the following:
1. Full name
2. Mobile number
3. Mailing address (we'll mail the tickets to this address). Or if you prefer to pick them up at our office, please specify in your email.

Deadline for sending email: June 30, 2013 (Sun)

Korean Travel Online - Suncheon Bay Garden Expo and Jangdae Park's Lights Festival

In case you don't know about the Suncheon Bay Garden Expo yet, here are a few articles to read:
International Garden Exposition Suncheon Bay Korea 2013 Preview
Suncheon Bay Garden Expo 2013
Explore Jeolla-do With an Expo ticket!Popular Yeosu Expo Facilities Reopen for Suncheon Garden Expo 2013
Suncheon City Starts City Tour Bus for Expo Visitors

Getting to Suncheon is easy. Taking the KTX (from Seoul Station approx 3.5 hrs; 40,200 won) or Saemaeul Train (from Yongsan Station approx 4.5 hrs; 36,100 won) is probably the most convenient. You can either book tickets in advance through korail.com or buy train tickets at the station on the day of your trip.

Once you arrive at Suncheon Station, you can easily find a place to stay. Across the station, you can immediately spot a number of motels. If motels aren't your thing, how about a guesthouse? Danim Guesthouse is located right across the street from the station, beside Paris Baguette.

Before you head out to the garden expo, make sure to put on sunblock, bring sunglasses, water, wear comfortable shoes. It would take more or less 3 hours to explore the vastness of the garden, more than 3 hours if you want to head out to the wetlands from the expo. If you want to avoid the summer heat, consider doing a late afternoon or night visit to the garden instead. The garden is open until 21:00 from June 1 to August 31, 2013.

There is a shuttle bus that takes you right in front of the expo's east gate. From Suncheon Station, you'll see bus #200. The bus goes around in a loop, costs 1,100 (or 1,000 for transportation cards; and yes, T-money works here).

Once you arrive at the expo, get a map (highly recommended). The English version might not be displayed so you have to ask for it.

There are themed gardens and a World Garden Zone featuring gardens inspired by different countries:

Thai-inspired garden

Rock garden

Lake garden

Dutch garden

Italian garden inspired by the Medici Villa Gardens

Spanish garden, inspired by orange trees planted in groves to form a small garden

British garden dedicated to the beauty of Victorian gardens

German garden modeled after Karl Forster's sunken garden in Potsdam

Italian garden

 The Bridge of Dreams is made out of recycled containers. Inside the bridge are about 140,000 paintings and written messages from children around the world. The bridge, which stands above Dongcheon Stream, conveys the spatial message of the garden, which dreams of coexistence between humans and nature

 Korean Traditional Garden uses Changdeokgung Palace and Huwon, and Soswaewon Garden in Damyang as motifs. 

Beautiful tranquil waterfall inside the Korean garden

From about 8:30pm (Fri/Sat/Sun until Oct 27, 2013), Jangdae Park (located close to Suncheon Station) lights up for the Haneulbit (Sky Light) Festival. To go there, all you have to do is take a 10-min walk to the park by walking along Dongcheon Stream.

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Korean Travel Online - B2ST as the Honorary Ambassadors of ‘K-POP Festival in Gangwon 2013’

K-Pop group B2ST has been appointed as the honorary ambassadors of the K-POP Festival in Gangwon 2013. The appointment ceremony was held at Korea Tourism Organization’s Tourist Information Center (TIC) on June 18, 2013. 

The group members stopped by to give their thoughts on being honorary ambassadors.  They said they would do their best to introduce the K-POP Festival in Gangwon 2013 to local and international fans. They also talked about their favorite areas in Gangwon-do and shared some personal travel stories.

The K-POP Festival in Gangwon 2013 will be held at the Tattoo Performance Center in Myeongnyun-dong Wonju City, Gangwon-do Province on September 28, 2013.

Get a chance to win a trip to Korea for the K-POP Festival in Gangwon 2013. Find out more here.

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Korean Travel Online - Everland Caption Contest Winners

Thanks to everyone for participating! If you weren't picked as one of the winners this time around, don't worry, there will be more free stuff to give away in the following weeks.

1st prize (4 tickets):
saeed maher

2nd prize (2 tickets/winner):
Siti Aminah Mohd Mornie
Mimsie Ladner
Lavinia Pletosu


To claim your prize, send an email to asia_english@knto.or.kr with the subject "Everland Tickets" and include the following:
1. Full name
2. Mobile number
3. Mailing address (we'll mail the tickets to this address)

Deadline for sending email: June 20, 2013 (Thu)




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Korean Travel Online - Photo Caption Contest

More about Everland →  http://bit.ly/U5bTlG
Everland's Lost Valley Safari → http://bit.ly/15YprDN

Korean Travel Online - Winners of Yanagi Muneyoshi Exhibit Tickets

Thanks for joining our ticket giveaway.  If you weren't picked as one of the winners, worry not, as there will be more giveaways in the near future (and by near future we mean this week) ;)

CONGRATULATIONS to the winners:

First Name	Last name
verlyn	tacatani
MAHER	ALATHWARI
Vesna	Milosevic
Hanh	Duong
Prichard	Sean
Zhau Wan	Soh
Kristine	Luna
Deepak	Bhattarai

Confirmation emails will be sent to the winners.

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