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Research notes

• Shin, Youngsun

Tourism, because of its peculiar nature, depends much on security and safety atthe destination. Likewise, Korea needs to assure concrete security and safety todevelop tourism in particular. In new millennium, however, Korea has a majorissue to be solved. That is to decrease the political tension between South andNorth so as to accelerate the reunification of the peninsula. In this context, thepeace festival tourism project should be placed in the first priority since this willease the strained political relations between South and North. This paper attemptsto review the actual condition of the peace festival tourism project and to examineeconomic, socio-cultural and political impacts. To analyze the effects of the study,secondary data and information provided by the research & research agency,newspaper articles and the Bank of Korea were utilized.

• Economics and Business

• Τουρισμός

peace festival project, tourism, borderland, South and North Korea, the DMZ area

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