"Apparently, a tunnel is being dug from the west coast of Tsushima to Korea." "Apparently, you can see the tunnel if you stay at a certain guesthouse."
Recently, rumors like this have begun to circulate in South Korea. The number of South Korean tourists visiting Tsushima from South Korea is expected to reach 300,000 this year. This is 1.5 times the 200,000 people who visited last year. Moreover, it is predicted that the number will reach 400,000 next year.
In fact, a guesthouse that can accommodate 150 people is currently being built with Korean capital, and a new bicycle rental shop for Koreans has also opened and is thriving.
Amidst this recent situation on Tsushima, three successive site visits to the Aren Inclined Shaft took place in the middle of this month. A group of 30 people from Gyesan on the 14th, 30 people from Okchon on the 19th, and a group of 10 academic researchers from universities across Korea visited on the 18th. The leaders of these groups of researchers had contacted the group after hearing that one of their students had visited the Nagoya Inclined Shaft of the Japan-Korea Tunnel in Karatsu, expressing their desire to see the Tsushima inclined shaft.
"The fact that they are actually digging is amazing. I would like to report this to the academic community in Korea and make various recommendations," he said, expressing his positive thoughts.
The number of Koreans visiting the Nagoya Inclined Shaft in Karatsu has reached 2,000 per year, and word of mouth has spread to Tsushima. North Korean missiles and President Moon Jae-in's policy toward Japan are making headlines in Japan, but with the 70th anniversary of the Korean War just two years away, the international situation is one to watch closely, as we wonder whether the unification of North and South Korea will become a reality.
[Photo] On December 19th, visitors from Okcheon, North Chungcheong Province, planned to walk around Izuhara City the next day.
[Photo] Korean visitors learn about the tunnel project at the Koura office
[Photo] Izuhara Port, the gateway to Tsushima. The high-rise building on the left is a domestic business hotel that opened in April this year.
