Seoul Grand Park Hosts 'Botanical Garden Tour' with Magician

Tropical Plant Explanation, Levitation Magic Show, and More

[Asia Economy Reporter Kiho Sung] Seoul Grand Park Botanical Garden announced on the 5th that it will create a "Winter Exhibition with Magic" from the 9th of this month to the 28th of next month during the winter vacation and will hold a "Botanical Garden Tour with a Magician."

This botanical garden tour, themed "Winter Garden," allows visitors to enjoy viewing various plants representing winter as well as a plant explanation program and magician performances simultaneously. Citizens who wish to participate in the program can make reservations from the 3rd of this month on the Seoul Public Service Reservation website. The number of participants is limited to 30 people per session on a first-come, first-served basis. Zoo admission fees (the botanical garden is located within the zoo) and the elephant train are at the individual's expense.

First, the magic show, which children love, will be performed by Lee Sang-rim, a zookeeper and magician at Seoul Grand Park, with the theme of the word "winter." He plans to present entertaining magic such as levitation magic and a beautiful zookeeper inside a pyramid, providing a time that stimulates children's imagination throughout the viewing.

Besides the magic show, visitors to Seoul Grand Park Botanical Garden can find special spaces filled with winter flowers, trees, and decorations throughout the garden. During this tour, visitors can also listen to plant stories such as tropical plants and cactus stories told by a forest interpreter using these special spaces.

Meanwhile, on the basement first floor of the Botanical Garden Specimen Exhibition Hall, a traveling exhibition of "Botanical Illustrations," special plants around us depicted in paintings, is on display. Visitors can see a total of 25 native Korean plants, including Haenyeo bean and Korean aster, and the exhibition runs until January 31, 2023.

Kim Jae-yong, director of Seoul Grand Park, said, "This exhibition, welcoming the new year of 2023, the Year of the Black Rabbit, newly displays more than 30 winter plants such as poinsettias in addition to the existing tropical and carnivorous plants at Seoul Grand Park," and added, "We hope many citizens visit with their families and create good memories."