Busan Beaches: Record Crowds After Pandemic Closure

[아이뉴스24 정예진 기자] More than 21 million visitors visited eight beaches in Busan this summer, and have been the largest since 2020.

According to Busan Metropolitan City on the 9th, the number of visitors to Busan Beach was 21561,000, up 9.31% compared to last year’s number of visitors. This is the largest number of visitors since 2020 since the New Corona Virus infection (Corona 19).

The number of Busan beach vacationers recorded 17,945,000 in 2023 and 19724,000 last year.

In particular, the Haeundae Beach, which will be operated until the 14th, has surpassed 10 million visitors once again since 2020.

Dadaepo Beach, the representative tourist attraction of the western mountain area, has become a new tourist attraction based on various marine leisure culture and tourism contents this year.

The city has contributed to the increase in the number of visitors that extended the operation of the beach and provided various entertainment in the simple water play space, reflecting the heat wave that continued due to climate change.

The city will end the operation of eight beaches this summer after the Haeundae Beach on the 14th.

The city plans to continue to prevent safety accidents by continuing to prevents safety management personnel, safety management, and patrols, and inspections to prevent safety accidents for citizens and tourists who visit the beach after closing the beach.

Park Hyung -jun, Busan Metropolitan Mayor, said, “We did our best to safety management and tourism contents so that citizens who visited Busan Beach and tourists at home and abroad can enjoy the safety and tourism contents of tourism.” I will try more to realize. ”