Oil depot-turned-cultural space provides tours for all visitors, including those with visual impairments

Situated to the west of Seoul World Cup Stadium in Mapo-gu, Seoul, Oil Tank Tradition Park is a cultural complicated created in a change from an oil depot. The cultural complicated gives a variety of cultural occasions, welcoming locals and vacationers alike, together with options catering to these with visible impairments.

Oil Tank Tradition Park mentioned earlier this week that it began a pilot tour program for people who find themselves blind or have a visible impairment. The brand new program is designed to introduce structure throughout the cultural area by way of on-site audio guides and journey guides who will assist the visually impaired take pleasure in a hands-on expertise across the renovated oil tanks with their unique options preserved.

The cultural complicated mentioned the pilot program might be open 4 instances in November. This system at the moment takes candidates solely by way of designated welfare establishments for the visually handicapped.

After November, Oil Tank Tradition Park will quickly cease holding the tour guides and make dietary supplements for this system’s official launch in 2023.

Along with excursions for the visually impaired, Oil Tank Tradition Park additionally gives audio guides for guests in Korean, English, Japanese and Chinese language.

There are additionally three exhibitions being held on the cultural complicated in November: “Time Strolling on Reminiscence,” “Hermaphroditus Protrusion Mythology Dabal Kim ‘Dreaming Membership’” and “Courtroom of Intergenerational Local weather Crime in Seoul: Regulation in Courtroom.” Each audio guides and booklets are offered in Korean and English.

In response to Oil Tank Tradition Park, lessons, out of doors actions and family-friendly actions can be found all year long.

The schedule for actions on the cultural complicated is obtainable by way of its Naver weblog web page. Bookings for a number of the occasions might be additionally made on the Seoul Public Service Reservation web site.

Oil Tank Tradition Park was beforehand an oil depot. The oil depot was in-built 1976 after the oil disaster within the early Seventies, as a part of a state-led try and counter a future oil disaster. The depot had 5 oil tanks that had been in a position to maintain 69 million liters of gasoline and diesel in whole.

The depot, nevertheless, was closed in 2000 in keeping with the nation’s co-hosting of the 2002 FIFA World Cup. After that, the oil depot sat idle for greater than a decade.

In 2015 renovation of the previous oil depot began. After two years, the oil depot was re-created right into a cultural area and opened to the general public.

The brand new cultural complicated now has six tanks, with 5 renovated tanks and a tank constructed utilizing supplies disregarded of the renovation course of. Solely one of many current 5 tanks has been preserved for its historicity, whereas others had been reworked for use as cultural areas.

Inside and out of doors the tanks, totally different cultural occasions, together with performances, music festivals, circuses and artwork workshops, are held all year long, in keeping with Oil Tank Tradition Park.

By Shim Woo-hyun (ws@heraldcorp.com)