Private Chartered Cars in Suburbs of Seoul | DMZ Imjingak Park in Demilitarized Zone, Third Tunnel Day Tour

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DMZ (Imjingak Park, Third Tunnel, Dora Observatory)

• Imjingak Park

Imjingak is a security tourist attraction built in 1972 to pray for the unification of the Korean Peninsula. It is located 7 kilometers south of the military demarcation line and about 54 kilometers away from the center of Seoul. Imjingak is divided into 1 underground floor and 3 floors above ground, and consists of North Korea Memorial Hall, Unification Park and various monuments. Outside Imjingak, there are also 12 kinds of military equipment used in the Korean War, including tanks and planes.

The Wangbai altar opposite Imjingak is a place where people who have left their hometowns face their hometown to worship each year during the Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. Behind the Wangbai altar is the Freedom Bridge, where North Korea repatriated South Korean prisoners after the North and South signed an armistice in 1953. The Gyeongui Line Railway in front of Wangbai Temple was damaged during the Korean War. In order to restore the economic connection between the North and South, the railway was repaired in 2000, and the repair work is still in progress. Imjingak is the most frequent and active place for exchanges between the North and the South, and the visit procedures are not as complicated as Panmunjom. It is one of the most popular tourist attractions for foreign tourists in Gyeonggi-do.

• third tunnel

The third tunnel, located in Dianwon-ri, Miannei, Paju-gun, is a tunnel dug by North Korea in an attempt to invade the south. It is 2m wide, 2m high, and has a total length of 1,635m. It is about 435m away from the military demarcation line in the south. Wenshan is only 12km away. According to the espionage of Mr. Jin Fucheng (transliteration) who defected from North Korea and returned to South Korea on September 5, 1974, North Korea was carrying out tunnel excavation work. Therefore, starting from 1975, South Korea began to conduct drilling and search operations in the Wenshan area, but did not find any. Authentic clues. It was not until June 10, 1978, that the tunnel was discovered when a blasting sound came from a drilling hole, so South Korea started the reverse excavation of the tunnel. On October 17, 1978, it penetrated the enemy tunnel and found it located 4 kilometers south of Panmunjom. This tunnel is also the third tunnel discovered by the Korean investigation, so it is called the third tunnel. The location of the third tunnel is only 52 kilometers away from Seoul, and its scale is comparable to that of the second tunnel. If one wants to penetrate into Seoul, the third tunnel is more threatening than the first and second tunnels. Because it is located 4 kilometers northwest of Imjingak, it is only 3.5 kilometers away from where the residents of Unification Village live, and it only takes 45 minutes to drive from Seoul.

• Provence Village

Starting with an elegant French restaurant in 1996, it has successively opened a shabu-shabu restaurant rich in Korean flavor, the most beautiful garden barbecue restaurant in the world, a design space that can nourish life, Provence Life Pavilion, sweet and fragrant herb pavilion, and visual space. Themed leisure villages such as fashion halls, European-style bakeries and coffee shops.

Provence Village connects stores with their own concepts in independent buildings, designs and produces ceramic workshops for tableware used in restaurants and coffee shops in Provence Village; leads the design of Provence Village, with hand-painted ceramics as the center, A living hall that sells and distributes decorative goods; a European-style bakery that makes the bread that customers like to eat before meals, and has an orthodox taste. Each store is carefully managed with the greatest competitiveness, with outstanding creativity as independent individuals. In addition, there are pottery shops, flower shops and herb shops in the living hall; fashion shops, shoe shops and decorative boutiques, etc. in the fashion hall. merge with each other. Provence's leisure space - Herb Garden specializes in providing a variety of cultural performances and various experience activities.