South Korea/USA: Plans for Lionsgate Movie World at Jeju Shinhwa World Announced
Landing Jeju Development – a wholly owned subsidiary of Landing International Development Limited based in Hong Kong – and the US content and media company Lionsgate recently announced their plans for the new Lionsgate Movie World theme park, which will be developed as centerpiece of the 2.5 million square meter large Jeju Shinhwa World resort on South Korea’s Jeju Island launched earlier this year (cf. EAP news from March 2nd, 2015) and being opened in phases. Lionsgate Movie World will be Lionsgate’s first branded outdoor theme park and visitors can already look forward to seven theme areas featuring IPs such as “The Hunger Games”, “The Twilight Saga” and “Saw”. On an area of some 121,000 square meters (1.3 million square feet), the park will offer state-of-the-art rides, attractions, 4D IP-reproduced streets and towns, themed restaurants, cafes, souvenir shops and entertainment performances. Construction works for the new theme park will begin next year, the opening of the Lionsgate Movie World is scheduled for 2019.
Jeju Shinhwa World also features the 280,000 square meter large Shinhwa Theme Park, which is slated to welcome its first visitors in the last quarter of 2017. This family park will offer more than 20 rides and attractions in seven theme areas. The “Larva’s Adventure Village” kids’ realm features South Korea’s popular “Larva” IP brand of TUBAn Entertainment animation studios. Canada’s Triotech company delivers an interactive dark ride and an interactive walkthrough attraction based on the two main Larva characters “Red” and “Yellow”. Also, there will be a Disk’O Coaster, a Tea Cup carousel and an “Energy Storm 5” ride from Zamperla. Headquartered in the French municipality of Bruz, CL Corporation installs its first "Head in the Stars" 4D dome theater attraction at the park, featuring a total of 130 dynamic motion seats for a lying position and a 20 diameter screen from Fulldome.pro company.
Genting Singapore PLC, a company which had been involved into the development of the former Resorts World Jeju (today: Jeju Shinhwa World) as a joint venture project, carried out a disposal of interest in late 2016 and is no longer part of the integrated tourist and leisure resort. (eap)
