(CNN) — A South Korean farming group has reinvented itself by reworking into an attraction good for the Instagram period.
And with the nation’s borders basically closed as a result of coronavirus pandemic, travel-hungry persons are flocking to the realm. Between June and August of 2020, greater than 100,000 guests got here to Banwol Island, a 20% soar from the earlier yr.
Since 2018, greater than 490,000 friends have visited the islands.
The undertaking was deliberate in 2015 as a part of South Jeolla Province’s branding initiative to “create enticing island locations” and was impressed by the purple bellflowers (aka campanula) which are native to the realm.
Tiny Banwol and Bakji Islands have fewer than 150 whole residents. For the reason that purple undertaking started, the farmers began rising kohlrabi and beets, each of that are on model. The native authorities planted 30,000 New England asters and 21,500 sq. meters of lavender fields.
Guests can stroll between the 2 islands by way of — you will have seen this coming — one other purple bridge.
The purple bridge was fastened up and repainted in early 2020.
Courtesy of Shinan County Workplace
Banwol’s dangerous however stunning transfer appears to be paying off. South Koreans who depart the nation and return are topic to a two-week quarantine after they come again, so most locals are choosing home tourism.
