Contributing Writer | Emily Leyva
South Korea- As one of the world’s leading and most creative technology innovators, South Korea announced in 2009 its plans to launch an entire theme park devoted to robots. With over $660 million U.S. dollars invested and 300 acres of land purchased, South Korea has made it clear that its intentions to build a robotic theme park are serious.
The park, appropriately named “Robot Land,” is scheduled for completion by 2016. Robot Land will be the world’s first theme park devoted to the world of robotics. The first phase of construction will include a robot research and development center, a convention center, a robot exhibition hall, and of course, the central robot theme parks.
However, Robot Land will not just be another amusement park meant for annual family trips and vacations. South Korea also announced that by 2018, during phase two of the construction, plans to build surrounding condominiums, apartment buildings and other commerce buildings will be complete.
Executives for Robot Land have announced their business goals, one of them being an opportunity to provide products and information to consumers and the other being “provide complex cultural space to increase leisure culture by work expansion.”
Robot Land will be located in the city of Incheon, which is about 17 miles from Seoul, and built along the coast on the East China Sea for oceanic views to showcase a futurized and glittering city.
The park will be fully equipped with the typical and not-so-typical attractions. Early concept drawings from Robot Land’s website show a Ferris wheel, a monorail, at least one roller coaster, a giant robot statue, and a glass pyramid that shoots lasers. In addition to robot themed roller coasters and water rides, the amusement park will also feature a robot aquarium, robot laboratory, and a robot gaming area.