Hi Ko-travelers!!
As a certified social enterprise, we, Inside Korea Travel, is working hard to introduce more valuable tours away from focusing on famous tourist destinations.
As part of that, we are planning various social tours in line with the new normal trend with Seoul Tourism Organization (STO). Social tour refers to a trip with values that encompasses a variety of topics such as upcycling, zero waste, barrier-free travel, fair trade, veganism, and cooperatives.
This time, we are holding a pilot tour to make this social tour more fruitful and valuable, so we look forward to many applications.
◈ Travel Date & Time:
Friday 3 December, 10:00am - 18:00pm
◈Meeting Place & Time:
Seoul Upcycling Plaza, 09:40am
◈ Cost: Free of charge. Deposit of 30,000 won to prevent no-show. (Deposit will be fully refunded upon completion of the trip.)
◈ Details of the trip:
(AM) 09:40 – [@Janghanpyeong Station Exit 8]
You will meet your guide in front of Exit 8 of Janghanpyeong Station and hear a brief explanation of today's trip.
↓ 5 minutes by car
(AM) 10:00 – [Seoul Upcycling Plaza]
It is a complex cultural space with the theme of upcycling, which uses waste resources to create new products. Through its docent program, you can visit exhibition spaces and upcycling companies, hear stories about upcycling, and enjoy small experiences using upcycling materials.
↓ 16 minutes by car
(PM) 12:20 – [Lunch: Chickpeace]
This restaurant has a good reputation for taste and you can choose vegan options here. The main menu includes burgers, salads, and shakshuka, and the subsidy is up to 30,000 won per person, so you can enjoy a satisfying meal with various toppings you like.
↓ 8 minutes by car
(PM) 13:30 – [Visit to zero-waste shop “The Picker”]
It is a zero-waste select shop that considers the circulation of healthy resources by selecting raw materials and producers that consider sustainable ecosystems, packaging and distribution with minimal carbon emission, and considering final disposal. Here you can find a variety of zero-waste products being sold in Korea.
↓ 50 minutes by car
(PM) 14:30 – [Making vegan soap]
Essential to soap making, palm oil farms needs burning lots of forests and thus destroys orangutans’ habitats. The size of palm oil plantation made in this way is larger than that of South Korea already. In this time, you can make your own soap with palm-free vegan recipes and take time to think about the environment.
↓ Seoul Innovation Park Tour
(PM) 16:00 – [Asia Fair Trade Network]
It is a purely fair trade organization & social enterprise that supports the independence of marginalized and poor producers through fair and equal partnerships with producers in Vietnam and the Philippines and other underdeveloped countries. It is a company that strives to spread the value of fair trade to domestic consumers through active fair trade campaigns. You can hear the story of Fair Trade directly from the CEO who runs the company.
(PM) 17:00 – [Yipul Cooperative]
Ipool, an abbreviation for ‘beneficial grass’, is a cooperative and social enterprise created by domestic herbalists. It strives to connect domestic farmers who grow medicinal herbs using eco-friendly farming methods that care about nature rather than just obsessing over immediate profits, and consumers who are anxious about whether imported medicinal products are grown reliably. You can hear directly from the representative of the Ipool cooperative about herbal medicine and the values pursued by the cooperative.
Apply for the travel through Google Forms. (Click the link below.)
https://forms.gle/aEaLSxACzPw3ki7j9
If there are more applicants than the capacity, participants will be randomly selected and contacted individually.
(Even those who have not been selected will be notified by message.
Seoul is a good place for individual travel as it has good transportation and tourism infrastructure, but in the case of social tours, it is difficult for individual travelers to directly contact travel agents.
Taking this into consideration, Inside Korea Travel plans a trip where you can hear and experience directly from the people working in the field through the network we have built up over the years as a social enterprise.
In addition to this pilot tour, we plan to update various social tours in the future, so please stay tuned.
Thanks to your interest and participation, more and more people are able to meet greater social tours.
Thank you.
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