Uijeongbu-si Opens Future Job Experience 'Future Planet 2050' Popup Store

Immersive Experience Program Supporting Youth Dreams and Challenges

Uijeongbu City, Gyeonggi Province (Mayor Kim Dong-geun) is opening a pop-up store called ‘Future Planet 2050,’ where youth can get a preview of the future career experience theme park ‘Future Planet.’

Future Planet bird's-eye view. Provided by Uijeongbu City

According to Uijeongbu City on the 8th, Future Planet is scheduled to open in 2028 on the site of the former oil storage facility next to the Gwangyeok Administrative Town in Geum-o-dong.

Hosted by the city and organized by NARIBEC Co., Ltd., this event will run from January 10 to April 9 at Uijeongbu Station underground shopping mall, East 6-2, Special E booth.

The pop-up store, under the slogan ‘Tomorrow’s Me, Today,’ offers an immersive experience program set in the fictional 2050 artificial planet Future Planet. With the theme of changes and innovations in future society, it is designed to help youth enhance their understanding of new jobs and technologies and proactively prepare for the future.

Future Planet 2050 Popup Store Poster. Provided by Uijeongbu City

Participants can naturally experience the importance of creativity and problem-solving skills by completing various missions that solve incidents occurring in future society.

The experience program is planned to strengthen core competencies through the process of participants cooperating and communicating to accomplish assigned tasks. Additionally, exciting side events such as spaceflight tests and costume events are prepared, and participants will receive abundant prizes.

In particular, this pop-up store serves as a pre-experience space for the ‘Future Planet’ scheduled to open in 2028, meaningfully showcasing the vision of the innovative experience center to be developed to the citizens in advance.

Future Planet is a future career experience theme park set in a fictional future city in 2050, where visitors can experience over 60 jobs across six fields: space, information technology (IT), energy, bio, and culture. Targeted at upper elementary to middle school grades 1-2 students, this facility will be a space that fosters creative and proactive problem-solving skills among youth.

A representative of Future Planet 2050 stated, “Future Planet is a new future education model designed to help youth prepare for emerging or disappearing jobs amid technological innovation and industrial changes,” adding, “This pop-up store will be a special opportunity for youth to discover their potential and create a chance for dreams and challenges about the future.”

Mayor Kim Dong-geun said, “The Future Planet 2050 pop-up store is a special opportunity that opens new possibilities for future society to citizens and youth,” and added, “Going forward, Uijeongbu City will continue to play a leading role in future education and create an environment where youth can nurture their dreams and take on challenges.”