Over 17,000 Visitors Since Opening, About 1,200 Weekly
Closed from the 4th to the 19th of Next Month for Better Service
The Wando Marine Healing Center, which opened on November 24 last year, is emerging as a hot place for healing and relaxation.
Since its opening, the Wando Marine Healing Center has welcomed about 17,000 visitors as of the 28th, with an average of 1,200 visitors each week, and reservations are fully booked on weekends.
According to the county on the 28th, the Wando Marine Healing Center is the only marine healing facility in Korea, equipped with 16 therapy facilities utilizing Wando’s marine resources such as seawater, seaweed, and mud, including thalassotherapy pools, meditation pools, seaweed foam therapy, and mud and stone therapy.
Engaging in various underwater exercises and hydro-massage in the thalassotherapy pool helps with fatigue recovery, pain relief, and muscle soreness alleviation. The meditation pool aids in tension relief, stress reduction, and insomnia improvement, while mud therapy assists in toxin elimination and skin improvement.
As the benefits of marine healing spread by word of mouth, inquiries from all over the country are flooding in. With the full operation of the Wando Marine Healing Center, it is also revitalizing local job creation and tourism.
Twenty-three professional staff members have been hired from the local community, and 20 marine healing guides have been trained to introduce marine healing and major tourist attractions when group tourists visit, creating a link that coexists with local residents.
Additionally, as local representative festivals such as the Cheongsando Slow Walking Festival and the Jangbogo Seafood Festival begin, the number of visitors to the Marine Healing Center is expected to increase. The county plans to continue various events, discount promotions, and marketing activities.
Recently, business agreements were signed with the Jeollanam-do Office of Education, Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries, the Health Management Association, and the Public Officials Labor Union Federation, focusing on attracting group healing visitors from institutions, organizations, and companies.
The county plans to operate the Marine Healing Center until the 3rd of next month, then temporarily close it for a short break, and reopen it on the 20th of next month to provide better services.
County Governor Shin Woo-cheol said, “Using the Wando Marine Healing Center as a base, we will activate public healing facilities such as Cheongsan Marine Healing Park and Yaksan Coastal Healing Forest, integrate marine and forest healing, and connect the healing and tourism resources unique to each island to make Wando Korea’s representative ‘Healing Island.’”
Wando = Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Choi Kyung-pil just8440@asiae.co.kr
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