How many tourists would be fortunate to have a pilot in the family or have enough won to afford to hire a small plane just to appreciate these enormous artworks? While I applaud the creativity of these landscape artists who have given crop circles their own Korean spin, I wonder how viable a tourist attraction their creations would be?
Perhaps pilots of budget airlines plying the Seoul-southern province routes may be persuaded to fly over this area on a regular basis but it wouldn't do much for reducing our carbon footprints.
From the Hankyoreh: "The first photo shows a majestic view of rice fields near the Suncheon Bay by the Suncheon City, South Jeolla Province. The city created hooded cranes, the representative migratory bird at the Suncheon Bay, one of the world five wetlands, with colorful rice plants including black ones among ripened yellow ones."
It may be possible to get a bird's perspective of the second scene below without resorting to wings. If one is willing to clamber up the nearest mountain or hill overlooking this giant moral, one may be rewarded by this striking if less inspiring sight. Still, I can't imagine hordes of tourists making the effort, though.
From the Hankyoreh: The second is a photo of green fields with young rice plants in the Goesan County, North Chungcheong Province. The county displayed neolttwigi, a traditional Korean jumping game on a plank similar to a see-saw, with a sentence reading, ““Wow! She’s really taking off!”....Recently, scenic farming, also called beautiful farming, has become increasingly popular in South Korea. It has attracted tourists in addition to income from the produce.
(Photos courtesy of the local governments)
sources:
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_entertainment/472378.html
http://www.designswan.com/archives/mysterious-crop-circles.html
