50,000 to Visit Mt. Geumgang in October

Korea Times
Ryu Jin
9/12/2007

More than 50,000 people are expected to visit Mt. Geumgang in North Korea in October, breaking the record for visitors in a single month, according to Hyundai Asan, the South Korean operator of the tourism business, Wednesday.

Hyundai Asan said that the number of people who have made reservations for the tour program for October has already exceeded 54,000, some 10,000 more than the previous record of 44,000 set in August 2005.

“All tickets for the Chuseok holiday from Sept. 22 to 26 have already been booked,’’ a Hyundai Asan spokesman said. “An average of 1,500 people will cross the border to visit the North Korean resort area around the Korean version of Thanksgiving Day.’’

In the meantime, Hyundai Asan also said that it plans to hold various cultural events including an ocarina performance by East Kimura Ocarina Band from Japan on Sept. 15 to greet the advent of autumn.

The Mt. Geumgang tourism project was launched in 1998 amid thaws between the two Koreas. The cumulative number of tourists exceeded 1.5 million in early June, boosted by the reconciliation process since the first inter-Korean summit in 2000.

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