In South Korea’s Chungcheong province lies a perfect replica of 1900s Seoul. Welcome to Sunshine Land, the latest K-drama theme park to cash in on K-culture tourism.
Fans of K-pop mega group BTS have long flocked to the country to see sites associated with the boy band, from the dorms where they slept as artist trainees to recent music video shoot locations.
The idea that foreign tourists would pay good money and drive hundreds of kilometres out of the capital, Seoul, to see a K-drama set seemed “crazy” to tour guide Sophy Yoon – until she saw one of her guests break down in tears at Sunshine Land.
“At that moment, it hit me: for me, it was just a studio, but for them, it was something much more,” she said.
Preserved from the set of popular 2018 historical series Mr. Sunshine, the location in Nonsan, 170 kilometres (106 miles) from Seoul, is replete with painstaking replicas of everything from a turn-of-the-century tram to South Korea’s most famous Buddhist bell.
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