'Metabus Capital' Gyeongbuk, Metabus Christmas Playground opens
The Christmas Metabus Playground will open, where you can see famous tourist attractions in Gyeongbuk and communicate and interact with other tourists (participants) in the Metaverse space. This is the story of 'Gyeongbuk Christmas Village' built in collaboration with Unimeta, a national and global metabus club association, by Gyeongbuk-do, which declared 'Metabus Capital'.
This playground can be enjoyed on the U-Meta server in the global metaverse platform, 'Minecraft'. Minecraft is a representative metaverse game that allows you to collect materials, make items, build, and perform economic activities with your own avatar in a 3D world.
Gyeongbuk Christmas Village is operated from the 23rd to the 26th with the participation of 300 young adults from 22 universities in the United States, Japan, and Canada belonging to Unimeta.
Metabus 6 tourist attractions representing Gyeongbuk, the capital, were implemented as a metabus. △Gyeongbuk Provincial Government Office, a publicity space in Gyeongbuk △Buncheon Station Santa Village △Hahoe Village in Andong City △Cheomseongdae Observatory in Gyeongju △Dokdo △Pohang Homigot Plaza.
Entering this space, you can enjoy Christmas content with your own avatar as well as sightseeing, communicate with university students and young people across the country, and create secondary creations such as photos and videos.
During the event, individuals or groups can enjoy various Christmas mini-games such as 'Snow Fighter', 'Santa Riding', 'Find Cookie', and 'Maze Game'.
Metaverse items and goods that will be obtained through the game will be donated to the Christmas virtual asset fundraising event and will be used for the Youth Creator Festival promoted by Gyeongbuk in the future.
On the 23rd, from 3:00 pm, the 'Christmas Metaverse Playground Opening Event' will be held on YouTube for an hour, attended by 'Lunchez', a metaverse creator from Gyeongsangbuk-do. Through the lunch cheese channel, △carol performance △wish and gift lottery △memorial photo △dance time and fireworks display △Meta Gyeongbuk’s achievements and future plans are introduced.
Cheol-Woo Lee, Governor of North Gyeongsang Province, said, "I am delighted to meet talented people in the Metaverse who will lead the future of Korea."
Gyeongbuk-do plans to promote various youth support projects using the metaverse, such as the Youth Metaverse Creation Festival and the International Youth Metaverse Conference.
Meanwhile, Cheol-Woo Lee, Governor of North Gyeongsang Province, who is visiting Vietnam to mark the 30th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Korea and Vietnam, gave a special lecture on 'Gyeongbuk, the capital of the metabus,' at the Korea-Vietnam Economic Forum held on the 16th. In a special lecture on this day, Governor Lee announced that he would use the metabus to expand economic, cultural, trade and human exchanges with Vietnam.
