▲ This photo, shows the Midsummer Santa Village. (Yonhap)

SEOUL, July 20 (Yonhap) --The Gyeongbuk Bonghwa Festival & Tourism Foundation announced on Wednesday that it will open the Buncheon Midsummer Santa Village on July 23.

Due to COVID-19, the event has been held online for the past two years, and is the first offline event in three years.

Until the August 21, with the slogan of "Christmas with Santa and SUM," various events including a water gun battle at the tree observatory that will blow away the heat, a Santa cooking class enjoyed at the Santa Campground, and a handmade flea market will be held.

Additionally, special performances including a unique street performance, it will be followed by a marching band parade with the characters of the Buncheon Santa Village, and a soap bubble show,

There are also experience programs such asthe alpaca feeding experience, bicycle sharing, as well as unique photo zones throughout the village at the Santa Post Office, Buncheon Station Platform, Igloo, and Santa Claus Chimney.


In accordance with the re-spread of COVID-19, it organization plans to thoroughly manage the quarantine rules, such as distributing masks for free, providing quarantine supplies, disinfecting the place twice a day, and installing a banner to notify the quarantine rules.

Bonghwa Buncheon Station Santa Village has held an opening event twice a year, winter and summer, since December 2014.

We have prepared more contents that goes with the season theme," said an official from the Bonghwa Festival & Tourism Foundation. "We want it to be reborn as a themed tourist destination representing Bonghwa and also be the centerfor Korea Railroad tourism."

An official from the Bonghwa Festival Tourism Foundation said, "We have prepared more seasonally themed content.

(This article is translated from Korean to English by Haemin Kim.)

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