Yi, SangchoulMa, Chang-moYoon, InJoo2024-04-262024-04-262017https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/48907<p>Dr. Sangchoul Yi is a Senior Researcher at Korea Maritime Institute.</p> <p>His research interest is tourism-related quality of life, tourism impacts, tourism development strategy, and policy.</p> <p>Mr. Chang-mo Ma is an Associate Research Fellow at Korea Maritime Institute.</p> <p>Dr. InJoo Yoon is a Senior Researcher at Korea Maritime Institute.</p> <p>Her reserach areas are tourism development in North Korea and marine tourism. </p>Ideas Fair (Visual Papers)The cooperative tourism project between South Korea and North had been an icon of the promotion of peace. However, the North Korean soldier’s shooting on a female Korean tourist in 2008 suspended the project that shuttled Korean tourists to Mt. Kumgang resort in North. After such an incident, Kim Jong-un has taken his office, attempting attacks on South Korean territories and conducting nuclear weapon experiments. Consequently, all cooperative projects have been suspended. However, some scholars said that tourism is still a very powerful mean to promote peace between divided nations. The aim of this research is to provide a theoretical framework for facilitating tourism development in North Korea and difficulties by conducting an in-depth interview with visitors to North Korea.event