E-journal post #1 - Unit 5 (Geotourism)

                           

                            Expo 2012 Yeosu Korea- the beggining of the geotourism in Korea

   

This is the mascots of Expo 2012 Yeosu Korea. On the left side of picture it's name is Yeony and Suny , the motif was plankton and characterized it into Yeony and Suny. On the other side it's a symbol consist of 3 color, on the top of the symbol it's red color stands for living things that lives on the land , green parts stands for environment that coexist with living things and blue color stands for pure and clean ocean.  The Yeosu Expo was held in Korea in 2012 and 105 nation  and 10 internation organization participated . As you can imagine from the mascots and symbol you will definitely know that it stands for geotourism.

First of all when you arrive at the Yeosu station you can hear some sort of organ sound. You may wonder where the sound came from. As you look straight forward to it you can see a tower which is called 'Sky Tower'. Guess what! This tower is made up with abandoned cement storage which is 67m long. On the external walls of this tower, there is an pipe organ  called Vox maris which means 'sounds of the ocean' . This pipe sounds like boat horn and you can hear the sound from 6km away from this . I think it's a brilliant idea to make huge organ with abandoned cement storage. It's sound is so beautiful and make you to start  pleasant tour.

Secondly you can still experience things that was held in 2012. It has energy park which you can simply watch and also particiate in. For the energy park, you can experience about producing principles of energy and it's sunlight generator is also possible to supply electric power to 700 house at the same time where you can experience recycle rocket, maze game, wated cannon using bicycle and you can ride electronic bus. There's also some experiments that you can catch fish at the mini farm. This kinds of experiment leads people to understand more about works in the ocean. To protect something I think that it's important to know first and then you search for the solution.

I visited Yeosu this summer I liked it so much but when I was traveling I didn't realized that Yeosu stands for geotourism but as I started to search and write this I feel sure about this. Through this Expo Yeosu became famous city for sightseeing city and this also leads local people to work at here so they can make money through this. Also it has increased  the use of local food. It's really delicious and I beg you to eat once. You will never forgot the taste of the food. and finally the used of the recycle things was the best part of Yeosu. I really suggest you to visit Yeosu on your free time.

 

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