Opened in the Seogwipo Aerospace Museum in Jeju Island
Future-leading digital content theme park

An indoor virtual/augmented reality theme park opens in Korea.

The 'Lightning Racing Experience Center', which is opening at the Seogwipo Aerospace Museum in Jeju Island, was built in collaboration with Agaworld, the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), the Educational Broadcasting System (EBS), and the Jeju Free International City Development Center (JDC).

It is a form of virtual video content reproducing on the floor with 20 video projectors installed on the ceiling in an indoor space measuring 16m x 60m. In the experience center, users can ride in small electric vehicles and interact with content displayed on the user's location or the race track, while spectators outside the race track can play a game that shoots lightning over the race track.



This experience center is a theme park that users can enjoy in a city center building with easy access, and it is significant in that it utilizes future-leading digital content in a new way in idle space within the building.

Accordingly, the Ministry of Science and ICT plans to increase public awareness of virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) content, which is receiving increasing attention worldwide, through the opening of this theme park and to strive to create results for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Additionally, based on the success of the Jeju Island theme park, we plan to advance into overseas markets such as China and Southeast Asia and take the lead in new markets in the content sector.

Noh Kyung-won, the Software Policy Director of the Ministry of Science and ICT, said, “The newly opened Lightning Racing Experience Center is a new content service that allows for easy digital experiences in the city center,” and added, “We will continue to discover new business models utilizing not only digital theme parks but also virtual/augmented reality (VR/AR) technologies, which are emerging as core technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and actively support them to enhance the competitiveness of related industries through core technology development and human resource development.”