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As North Korea sent a notice to remove our facilities on Mt.

Reporter Choi Jae-young has visited what is happening in Goseong, Gangwon-do, where attention has been focused on the road.

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I arrived at the Unification Observatory in Goseong, Gangwon-do.

You can see Mt. Kumgang directly with your eyes, so many tourists visit it. You can see a lot of cars in the parking lot.

[Im Song Ah / Unification Observatory staff: I think the number of visitors has increased more than last year. (Much more?) Yes.]

In fact, in the last two years since the regime changed, the number of visitors to the Unification Observatory has increased significantly.
That's why there was a lot of work going on to create new shops in nearby tourist areas.

[Construction worker: (Are you building today?) This is my house. (Are you doing this house?) Yes.]

[Restaurant staff: Newly built. You've done everything in front of the balcony. I did this year.]

Next door was a convenience store that came in quickly last year.

[Convenience store owner: It's been a year and a half since I opened it up. (It's about the time when inter-Korean relations get better?) Yes, I expect the inter-Korean relations to improve. When we first did it was a bit like that… ]

The quickest response was real estate.

In the past two years, Goseong's land transactions have declined sharply due to the suspension of tourism, but recently they have increased again.

So there was a new real estate.

[Real Estate CEO: (Opened) It's been over a year. I was very excited about this regime. On the surface (and land). The land that used to cost 800,000 won two or three years ago (per cubic meter) is now more than 2 million won.]
In the past two years, the attention focused on the path of Mt. Kumgang was hot, but the residents were calm.

The village, which was in its heyday before the tour of Mt. Kumgang, ceased to have been ruined over the past decade.

[Gangwon-do Goseong-gun Myeong-Paris Resident: I think the restaurant won't come back or something like that. (Is it possible to open the door again?) No. You want to farm and live comfortably.]

Remarks about the removal of the Kumgang facility were not noticed.

[Han Myung-chul / Professor of Hyundai-Myun, Goseong-gun, Gangwon-do: Because once or twice, the residents living here don't worry or worry about it.]

Nevertheless, I was eager to see Mt. Kumgang as soon as possible and to be crowded with tourists.

[Gangwon-do Goseong-gun Myeong-Paris residents: Mt. Kumgang is open, so many people come to the town is not active. Farmers sell well… .]

The place you see right now is Mt.

Until this time last year, I felt like I could go to Mt. Kumgang soon, but now I feel a bit far away.

Residents here were waiting for the return of the day when tourists could take a bus back and forth to Mount Kumgang, as they did ten years ago.

(Video coverage: Bae Munsan, Video editing: So Ji Hye)