Bucheon Public Campground Open on May 4

Bucheon Public Campground Open on May 4

Bucheon public campground is supposed to re-open on May 4, 2013 and Bucheon Culture Park on April 16, 2013. The two sites were very popular with campers and families last year 2012.

Bucheon pulbic campground will be run from May 4 to the end of November, 2013. There are fifty tents for rent and forty five campsites for self camping in the campground. The city will make fifteen campsites more this year.

You should make a reservation first via the web site, http://www.bccamppark.kr, if you want to use the campsites. The city opened the reservation page from 2 P.M., April 1, 2013.

They prepared a event square, sport playgrounds for basketball, Korean foot volleyball and badminton games, electric power outlets, restrooms, shower booths, a washing area, a rental shop, and a drugstore in the campground. Campers can use electric power at both rental tents and campsites for self camping.

The fee for a rental tent is US $30 per a night. The fee for a campsite for self camping is US $15 per a night. The city will provide sessions for camping skills, movie theaters for campers, cultural performances, marketplaces for sharing, and experience event in culture and arts.

Everyone who has a camping bracelet can get 40% discount for entrance fee to Korea Comics Museum and 50% discount for experience fee of making kimchi in Kimchi Theme Park.

Last year 2012, 42 thousand persons visited the campground. The Bucheon public campground was selected as one of best 10 campgrounds in Gyunggi Province by Gyunggi Tourist Service Company last year. KBS TV company introduced Bucheon public campground as a "Special Camping Place in Cities" at its TV NEWS show, KBS 1TV News Square, on October 29, 2012.

Near the campground, Bucheon Culture Park, a kind of urban kitchen garden, will open on April 16, 2013, as the city hosts a festival that informs the start of farming to heaven. The city is supposed to rent 200 sections of kitchen gardens to citizens. The one section of a kitchen garden is 16.5 square meters area. There are also kitchen gardens for education, a herbs garden, a garden for raising seeds, a experience center, a marketplace for sharing, and a flower garden in the park. The park will run several activities regarding 'City Farming'.

The urban kitchen gardens are rent by citizens and public organizations, who will do farming there for one year. The rental fee for a section is US $60 per a year.

Last year 2012, 69 organizations and 9,765 citizens farmed to harvest at 200 sections of kitchen gardens.

After accepting applications for renting kitchen gardens from February 25 to March 24, 2013, 500 organizations and citizens, more than twice of 200, signed in. The selected applicants can start to farm from April 16.

The city will plant sunflowers and cosmos flowers on empty space and make a flower road around the kitchen gardens in the culture park.

Team leader of Movie & Culture Complex Team, Yeonghyung Choi, said "Bucheon Public Campground and Culture Park are so popular with citizens then other local government officials visit here in order to see and learn. The city will make it much better by expanding facilities for convenience and providing cultural performances."

<photo 1: The bird's-eye view image for Bucheon Public Campground and Culture Park. Bucheon City announced to open the campground on May 4 and kitchen gardens on April 16, 2013.>