Robot Tourism Coming Soon To Korea: Robot Land Project Breaks Ground

Hallie Siegel writes "Korea's Ministry of Commerce, Industry & Energy (currently the Ministry of Knowledge Economy) first presented the idea for Masan Robot Land and its sister project – the robot theme park in Incheon (west of Seoul) – back in 2007, as part of a larger plan to stimulate Korea's robotic industry by generating public interest in consumer robots. From the article: 'It is expected that Phase One of the construction, which will include development of public facilities such as robot research development center, convention center, robot exhibition hall, and private facilities such as themed parks and youth hostels, will be completed in September, 2016. Phase Two, which includes development of hotels and condominiums, is expected to be complete by the end of 2018. The Masan park was originally scheduled to open in January of 2014.'"

Nothing..

[Travis Mansbridge]

Nothing could possibli go wrong.

Didn't work out so well in "Westworld"

[swb]

Tourism and robots didn't work out so well.

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[Capt.DrumkenBum]

Good movie though. Thanks for the reminder, think I am going to watch it tonight.

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[bob_super]

But it's only fair that we get to visit the robot theme park now.
In a few decades, they'll come to visit us in the Zoo.

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[R3d M3rcury]

Maybe if they set up a "Futureworld [wikipedia.org]"? No, that might not work out so well either...

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[Nethead]

But in the porn remake, Sexworld, everyone had a happy ending.

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[RespekMyAthorati]

Or Itchy and Scratchy land.

Now we know

[cold fjord]

Robot Korea best Korea!

The North is going to be very angry at being upstaged. The best they can do is march bots [youtube.com].

Yul Brynner

[bickerdyke]

How many of them will look like Yul Brynner?

Korean Bender

[oldhack]

Chain-smoking, soju-drinking, samgyopsal-devouring, whore-chasing, and what else? Oh yeah, "kiss my shiny kimchi-farting ass."

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[Megahard]

At least the theme park will have lots of blackjack and hookers.

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[terryk29]

And the first thought I had was "Huh? Tourism through a robot?" (i.e. by teleprescence... Hey, that may not be all that zany a notion...)

No robot theme park would be complete without

[Spy Handler]

robots in disguise

Eastworld?

[Maltheus]

Now if only they could make Yul Brynner look a little more Korean.

Which Korea?

[wonkey_monkey]

Granted, it's fairly easy to guess (though you never know what Krazy Kim's planning), but there are two of them. The one this story is talking about is called South Korea. That's its name. It's not called "Korea."

Just trying to instil a sense of professional journalism here...

Great!

[multimediavt]

Now, I will have to wait in line at the airport TSA checkpoint behind robots that want to go to South Korea. Like the couple with eight kids isn't enough! Or, will the robots just DHL themselves there?

Even in a song...

[Ralph Spoilsport]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... [youtube.com]

"Each resort is maintained by reliable computer technology, and peopled by lifelike robot men and women..."

Now they outsource Tommy Bartlett! BASTARDS!

[Chas]

You used to be able to go to Tommy Bartlett's Robot World [tommybartlett.com]. A whole damn WORLD man! Not just a LAND!

Not anymore. Damn globalization!

But I'm no criminal

[Boltronics]

I would have been really interested in this. Actually, I almost went to Korea over the Xmas holidays anyway, but learned that they require fingerprinting now for non-citizens. I ended up staying in Hong Kong instead for the entire duration of my holiday just because of this point. I refuse to be treated like that.

http://www.businesstraveller.a... [businesstraveller.asia]

I see some countries even require visitors to take an iris scan. That's insane.

http://www.stallman.org/bad-bo... [stallman.org]