South Korea doubles up, now getting two robot theme parks

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.

[Image courtesy of SciFi]

[stardash @ Nov 14th 2007 9:58AM]

I for one welcome our robot theme park overlords.

[Jagannath A @ Nov 14th 2007 10:16AM]

is this your full time job ?

[blade417 @ Nov 14th 2007 10:01AM]

all your park are belong to us

[Matthew McGuirl @ Nov 14th 2007 10:05AM]

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.

[Leo Sanders @ Nov 14th 2007 10:12AM]

it has begun......

[John @ Nov 14th 2007 10:34AM]

What the hell is a robot park anyway?

[meeko @ Nov 14th 2007 10:34AM]

wasn't there a Simpsons episode about this?

[Samurai Jack @ Nov 14th 2007 10:50AM]

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.

[toronado455 @ Nov 15th 2007 6:01AM]

Which itself was based on the movie "Westworld".

[Student Driver @ Nov 14th 2007 10:58AM]

(Front) 242 miles away, eh? Cool, only the best robot music for a robot park!

[Harvey @ Nov 14th 2007 11:23AM]

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!"

[Steve Handjobs @ Nov 14th 2007 12:28PM]

Wake me up when they get three robot-themed, fantasmical amusement parks.

[Ethan @ Nov 14th 2007 1:04PM]

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.

[SubGenius @ Nov 14th 2007 1:43PM]

Redundancy, redundancy.

[rH @ Nov 14th 2007 3:37PM]

is it first step for cylon war? where is battlestar?

[CaliforniaKid @ Nov 15th 2007 2:37AM]

Aren't there enough "Parks" in South Korea already? (if you know what I mean)

[David @ Jan 8th 2008 2:31AM]

South Korea is even getting a Disney Land in Seoul and will be finished in 2009