Legoland Korea Resort, positioned in Hajungdo Island in Chuncheon, Gangwon State, has entered its third 12 months since opening in Might 2022, positioning itself as the town’s consultant tourism landmark. This represents solely half the achievement, contemplating that the excellent improvement undertaking for Hajungdo Island, which initially included the development of heritage parks and exhibition halls, and the attraction of MICE services, accommodations, and business services, stays stagnant. This case conflicts with Gangwon State’s aspirations for Hajungdo Island improvement and has served as an element making further funding from Legoland headquarters tough. Nonetheless, indicators at the moment are being detected that discussions for re-examining the potential of Hajungdo Island and the Legoland neighborhood and planning future improvement are starting in earnest.
Legoland’s Achievements Verify the Potential of Hajungdo Island as a Main Tourism Advanced
Legoland Korea Resort opened as Korea’s first world theme park the place youngsters aged 2 to 12 and their households can get pleasure from collectively. Legoland Korea, constructed on the attractive island of Hajungdo surrounded by Gangwon State’s pristine nature, is split into seven Lego-themed areas stuffed with varied leisure choices together with over 40 rides and sights. The Legoland Resort, that includes 154 rooms uniquely adorned with Lego themes, is conveniently positioned adjoining to the theme park, offering optimum entry and delivering the final word Lego expertise to all visiting households.
Legoland Korea, which was constructed as the most important in Asia on the time of opening, has pursued relentless progress in each amount and high quality elements. Within the first half of 2025, it additionally launched the brand new attraction “Spinjitzu Grasp” for the primary time amongst all Legolands worldwide. Spinjitzu Grasp, developed by increasing the present Ninjago cluster with a complete funding of roughly 20 billion received, includes a 346-meter monitor and most pace of 57km/h, delivering thrilling pleasure to each youngsters and grownup guests.
The LEGO Competition, held solely in Korea in Asia, additionally acquired optimistic response this 12 months. The LEGO Competition is a large-scale complicated expertise zone content material collaborated with the LEGO Group, operated with 5 new theme zones, and was created as a play house the place all youngsters can unleash free creativeness and limitless creativity, drawing nice enthusiasm from guests.
Moreover, the resort is actively working to strengthen its basis by establishing “Bricktopia Lounge,” a posh house stuffed with over 250,000 bricks the place households can get pleasure from experiences and leisure collectively, and working “Inventive Workshops” with direct participation from skilled Grasp Builders, enabling guests to get pleasure from each play and academic results whereas creating joyful recollections.
Tourism accessibility-friendly service provision is an space the place Legoland clearly leads. It turned the primary home theme park to acquire Licensed Autism Heart certification, and operates convenience-focused companies corresponding to “Hero Move,” a precedence boarding system for folks with disabilities, and “Guardian Preferential Tickets.” As well as, by way of the “Accessible Tourism Web site” improvement undertaking supported by the Korea Tourism Group, the resort plans to additional enhance entry environments for susceptible tourism teams together with folks with disabilities and mobility-impaired people all through info steering enhancement, facility enhancements, content material, and trip services inside this 12 months.
On this manner, Legoland Korea Resort is evolving as a theme park the place folks be taught by way of play, join with household, and notice creativity. In recognition of those efforts and achievements, it was chosen for 2 consecutive years within the “South Korea’s Main Resort” class on the 2025 World Journey Awards.
Hajungdo Island Growth Will depend on Synergy Between Tourism Advanced Growth and Transportation Accessibility Enchancment
Whereas Legoland’s achievements over the previous three and a half years are actually encouraging, this nonetheless has an extended solution to go in comparison with the potential that each Legoland and Hajungdo Island possess. If the development of the excellent tourism complicated initially deliberate inside Hajungdo Island round Legoland, together with lodging services and business services at present delayed, proceeds, it’s anticipated to create not solely the revival of the Chuncheon tourism cluster but in addition higher tourism synergy inside the area.
Gangwon Jungdo Growth Corp., which is answerable for the undertaking, can also be decided to actively promote the undertaking and is making efforts for monetary enchancment. The truth that the extra capital funding plan supported by Gangwon State just lately handed by way of the related standing committee of Gangwon State Council can also be a component that means the undertaking will acquire additional momentum.
This path and energy is essential timing-wise, contemplating that enhancements in accessibility to Chuncheon and Hajungdo Island are imminent by way of the extension of the Better Seoul Space Specific Railway Line B (GTX-B) and the development of Seomyeon Bridge, which is able to proceed over the subsequent few years.
The GTX-B route, confirmed to cross by way of Songdo, Yeouido, Seoul Station, and Cheongnyangni to Maseok in Namyangju with opening scheduled for 2031, is definite to increase to Chuncheon. When the extension opens, journey time from Seoul Cheongnyangni to Chuncheon might be diminished to simply 50 minutes. Whereas the ITX at present connecting main Seoul hubs with Chuncheon is working efficiently and receiving analysis for elevating Chuncheon’s regional worth by one stage, the extra extension of GTX-B is anticipated to carry the impact of virtually incorporating Chuncheon into the higher metropolitan space, clearly establishing the justification for elevated customer demand to Legoland in addition to Hajungdo Island improvement itself.
Furthermore, Gangwon State just lately re-announced the Seomyeon Bridge development undertaking in April, reflecting a 3.1 billion received value improve within the undertaking price, and accomplished contractor choice in August, with groundbreaking imminent. Seomyeon Bridge is a 770-meter bridge connecting Hajungdo Island, the place Legoland is positioned, and Seomyeon, straight linking with Chuncheon Bridge, which connects Hajungdo Island and the town middle. When accomplished in 2029, it is going to carry the impact of drastically lowering journey time between Chuncheon Station and Seomyeon from the present 20 minutes to 7 minutes. Notably, Seomyeon Bridge will join with the 2nd Gyeongchun Nationwide Highway, and car accessibility to Hajungdo Island from the metropolitan space is anticipated to enhance dramatically by way of visitors distribution.
Such transportation accessibility enchancment is anticipated to function an essential alternative to maximise Hajungdo Island’s improvement potential and enter the activation part.
Hajungdo Island as Land of Alternative for Regional Economic system and Tourism Cluster
Chuncheon’s Hajungdo Island, surrounded by Uiam Lake, is basically a scenic spot with pure magnificence and geographical benefits bestowed by nature. If the world round Hajungdo Island is developed in response to its authentic goal, it is going to develop into a chance to create Chuncheon’s new tourism hub along with Legoland and inject vitality into the regional economic system. If developed as a complete tourism complicated integrating lodging, buying, and cultural services, it might entice varied home and worldwide vacationers past Legoland guests and contribute to job creation inside the area. Legoland additionally hopes that Hajungdo Island improvement might be realized promptly to contribute extra considerably to attracting home and worldwide vacationers and Chuncheon regional financial development. Chucheon residents hope that Hajungdo Island is developed as initially deliberate, providing new enterprise alternatives for home and worldwide funding capital.
