Selected as One of the 'Top 100' Autumn Contactless Tourist Destinations Including National Sejong Arboretum

Sejong City announced on the 21st that both the National Sejong Arboretum and Bear Tree Park were simultaneously selected for the "2020 Autumn Non-face-to-face Tourist Destinations 100" organized by the Korea Tourism Organization. Provided by Sejong City

[Asia Economy (Sejong) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Sejong City announced on the 21st that the National Sejong Arboretum and Bear Tree Park have been selected as part of the Korea Tourism Organization's '2020 Top 100 Non-Face-to-Face Tourist Destinations for Autumn.'

The Top 100 Non-Face-to-Face Tourist Destinations were selected based on criteria including ▲tourist sites that were previously not well known ▲individual travel and family-themed tourist sites ▲tourist sites centered on natural environments ▲tourist sites fitting the autumn foliage and fall themes.

Among them, the National Sejong Arboretum, which opened on the 17th, is the country's first urban arboretum, established on a 65-hectare site adjacent to the Government Sejong Complex. It offers themed attractions such as a four-season greenhouse, a traditional Korean garden, the Cheongryu Garden for learning, and a bonsai garden, allowing visitors to view 1.61 million plants of 2,453 species.

Bear Tree Park is an arboretum located on approximately 330,000 square meters (about 100,000 pyeong) of land, featuring over 1,000 species and around 400,000 flowers and trees, as well as koi fish, Asiatic black bears, and spotted deer.

Bear Tree Park is known as a representative tourist attraction of the region, where visitors can observe various flora and fauna including the Osaek Pond inhabited by about 500 koi fish, the Asiatic black bear hill, the spotted deer hill, the tropical plant garden, and the bonsai garden.

Lee Chil-bok, head of the Tourism and Cultural Heritage Division of the city, said, “The efforts we have made to develop tourism content are now yielding a series of results. We will further accelerate the development of tourism products so that Sejong can be reborn as a tourism city in the post-COVID-19 era.”