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| A music efficiency is held in 2019 at one of many renovated tanks at Oil Tank Tradition Park in Mapo-gu, Seoul. (Oil Tank Tradition Park) |
Positioned to the west of Seoul World Cup Stadium in Mapo-gu, Seoul, Oil Tank Tradition Park is a cultural advanced created in a change from an oil depot. The cultural advanced supplies a variety of cultural occasions, welcoming locals and vacationers alike, together with options catering to these with visible impairments.
Oil Tank Tradition Park stated earlier this week that it began a pilot tour program for people who find themselves blind or have a visible impairment. The brand new program is designed to introduce structure throughout the cultural house by way of on-site audio guides and journey guides who will assist the visually impaired get pleasure from a hands-on expertise across the renovated oil tanks with their unique options preserved.
The cultural advanced stated the pilot program can be open 4 instances in November. This system presently takes candidates solely by way of designated welfare establishments for the visually handicapped.
After November, Oil Tank Tradition Park will quickly cease holding the tour guides and make dietary supplements for this system’s official launch in 2023.
Along with excursions for the visually impaired, Oil Tank Tradition Park additionally supplies audio guides for guests in Korean, English, Japanese and Chinese language.
There are additionally three exhibitions being held on the cultural advanced in November: “Time Strolling on Reminiscence,” “Hermaphroditus Protrusion Mythology Dabal Kim ‘Dreaming Membership’” and “Courtroom of Intergenerational Local weather Crime in Seoul: Legislation in Courtroom.” Each audio guides and booklets are offered in Korean and English.
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| A renovated oil tank is illuminated at night time with projection mapping, as a part of a 2021 undertaking on the Oil Tank Tradition Park in Mapo-gu, Seoul. (Oil Tank Tradition Park) |
In response to Oil Tank Tradition Park, lessons, outside actions and family-friendly actions can be found all year long.
The schedule for actions on the cultural advanced is on the market through its Naver weblog web page. Bookings for a few of the occasions could be additionally made on the Seoul Public Service Reservation web site.
Oil Tank Tradition Park was beforehand an oil depot. The oil depot was inbuilt 1976 after the oil disaster within the early Nineteen Seventies, as a part of a state-led try to counter a future oil disaster. The depot had 5 oil tanks that have been in a position to maintain 69 million liters of gasoline and diesel in whole.
The depot, nonetheless, was closed in 2000 consistent with the nation’s co-hosting of the 2002 FIFA World Cup. After that, the oil depot sat idle for greater than a decade.
In 2015 renovation of the previous oil depot began. After two years, the oil depot was re-created right into a cultural house and opened to the general public.
The brand new cultural advanced now has six tanks, with 5 renovated tanks and a tank constructed utilizing supplies omitted of the renovation course of. Solely one of many present 5 tanks has been preserved for its historicity, whereas others have been transformed for use as cultural areas.
Inside and outdoors the tanks, totally different cultural occasions, together with performances, music festivals, circuses and artwork workshops, are held all year long, in keeping with Oil Tank Tradition Park.
By Shim Woo-hyun (ws@heraldcorp.com)
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