Thrill seekers and robot admirers alike can mark South Korea down as a must-see destination in the coming years, as it will soon be home to not one, but
two robot theme parks. Yeah, we
already knew that one of these fantasmical places were on the planning block, but just today the Commerce Ministry "announced a proposal to build two parks by 2013 for $1.6 billion." Reportedly, each park will mesh culture and entertainment with robot technology, and while one will be built in Incheon, the other will be erected some 242 miles south of Seoul in the port city of Masan. A feasibility study slated for next year is apparently the only piece of red tape still holding this project back, but if the bigwigs in South Korea shut the whole thing down, we'll gladly take 'em here on this side of the lake.
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posted Nov 14th 2007 9:54AM
I for one welcome our robot theme park overlords.
is this your full time job ?
all your park are belong to us
Unless I'm mistaken, "the pond" refers only to the Atlantic Ocean... with the size of the Pacific, I think we'd have to go with "the lake" if you're so inclined to use a deliberate idiomatic understatement.
it has begun......
What the hell is a robot park anyway?
wasn't there a Simpsons episode about this?
Yup, this thing has "Itchy and Scratch Land" written all over it. The most violent place on earth--when our robotic overlords realize we're just weak meatsacks.
Which itself was based on the movie "Westworld".
(Front) 242 miles away, eh? Cool, only the best robot music for a robot park!
My reaction to this development and others in the Pacific Rim is probably similar to Europe's thoughts 200 years ago when the brash, new United States was beginning to assert itself as the technology leader in the World, "They'll never amount to anything!"
Wake me up when they get three robot-themed, fantasmical amusement parks.
I think in South Korea the connotations of the word 'jock' and 'geek' must be reversed. Whatever they are in Korean.
I'd still love to see this, but I have to see the Hogwarts hopefully not completely ruined by disney first.
Redundancy, redundancy.
is it first step for cylon war? where is battlestar?
Aren't there enough "Parks" in South Korea already? (if you know what I mean)
South Korea is even getting a Disney Land in Seoul and will be finished in 2009