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In Pics: South Korea’s Purple Islands Are Trending For Being All Purple And Attracting Tourists
Tourism is always a good way to revive interest around places that might be getting forgotten or seeing a lot of immigration out of it. Places often revamp or advertise certain unique features of the specific location in order to create intrigue around it and get people to visit it. Tourism is actually something that […]
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Tourism is always a good way to revive interest around places that might be getting forgotten or seeing a lot of immigration out of it.
Places often revamp or advertise certain unique features of the specific location in order to create intrigue around it and get people to visit it.
Published March 17, 2021 3:56pm Welcome to South Korea s Purple Islands. Inspired by the native balloon flower, residents of the Banwol and Bakji Islands, known as the Purple Islands , in southwest Korea have transformed their towns into a tourist attraction. Almost everything on these two islands is purple, from roofs of houses to roads and bridges, even to rice in restaurants. Home to 100 residents, the Purple Islands have become a tourist sport, attracting nearly half a million visitors including K-pop band BTS member Kim Tae-hyung - also known as V. Guests dressed in purple are allowed free entry. At night tourists can also enjoy a purple sunset.
Violet-ly colourful: An aerial view of the purple-coloured bridges and the roads and homes (below) at the Purple Island in Shinan Reuters
SHINAN: Dressed all in purple, bent-over women held long rakes aloft as they walked in a line to a lavender field to carry out some pruning on an island in southwest South Korea.
Inspired by their native balloon flower, residents of the Banwol and Bakji Islands, known as the “Purple Islands”, have painted their houses, roads and bridges in shades of the hue, and planted purple flowers such as lavender and asters to transform their town into a tourist attraction.
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