The Gyeonggi Tourism Organization (GTO) announced on July 5th that it successfully conducted a peace and security site tour at the Camp Greaves area within the Civilian Control Zone in Paju for approximately 150 participants on July 4.
The participants included descendants of veterans from the 13 nations of the UN Allied Forces and Korean university students and graduate students.
The tour was held as part of the 2026 UN Allied Forces’ Future Generation Camp hosted by the Korean Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs.
Camp Greaves, the key destination of this event, is an actual U.S. base, which was a core pillar of the UN Allied Forces during the Korean War.
Participants pose for a photo during a peace and security site tour at the Camp Greaves area within the Civilian Control Zone in Paju of Gyeonggi Province.
The GTO planned this tour to shed new light on the sacrifices of veterans who dedicated themselves to the Korean Peninsula in the past and to honor their noble spirit by allowing future generations to visit the historic site where the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division was stationed.
On this day, the participants took part in the “VIEWtiful” Greaves Program, which allowed them to experience the diverse charms of Camp Greaves, and explored every corner of the site in depth.
In particular, they focused on touring the original preservation zones, where the appearance of the past remains intact, including the Quonset huts and ammunition depots actually used by the U.S. military. Witnessing firsthand the scars the war left on the division’s soldiers, they had a meaningful time empathizing with the pain of the division of the Korean peninsula.
“The GTO planned this program so that future generations from the 13 UN member nations could personally tour the historical traces of Camp Greaves, a former U.S. military base, and simultaneously feel the painful scars of the war and the preciousness of peace,” a GTO official said.
“We will continue to discover diverse global tourism and experience content that highlights the symbolism of the DMZ area so that the unique value of Camp Greaves — which was once a strict military base but has now been reborn as a symbol of culture, art, and peace — can spread to the whole world,” he added.
Individual Tourism Briefing Session to Attract Individual Tourists from Europe and the Americas
Gyeonggi Province and the GTO announced on July 6 that they held an individual tourism briefing session at the Seoul Tourism Foundation’s Citizen Academy Hall, attended by approximately 60 people, including officials from Gyeonggi Province’s tourism industry, travel agencies specializing in individual tourists and representatives from global travel platforms such as GetYourGuide and Airbnb on July 2.
According to the Korea Tourism Data Lab, the number of tourists from Europe and the Americas who visited Korea through May of this year reached approximately 1.47 million, a 16% increase compared to the same period of 2025.
Despite being a distant market and facing challenges such as rising fuel surcharges caused by the recent situation in the Middle East, this represents a steep upward trend.
In response, the GTO is building a cooperative system with the province’s tourism industry and global travel platforms to promote the development of differentiated tourism products unique to Gyeonggi Province.
However, the Gyeonggi tourism products currently listed on global platforms are concentrated on certain tourism resources preferred by tourists from Europe and the Americas, such as the DMZ and Suwon Hwaseong Fortress.
To address this issue, the GTO invited professionals in specialized content — including those involved in ginseng experiences with local residents in areas near the DMA, meditation wellness programs, MBC-TV drama location sites, Suwon KT Wiz professional baseball games, the Yeoju Ogoknaru Festival, and Suwon Hwaseong Media Art — as well as representatives from platforms and travel agencies to this briefing session.
The organization aimed to strengthen networking while also introducing various tourism products in Gyeonggi Province.
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