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South Korea’s all-purple Banwol Island is a photographer’s dream

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February 7, 2021
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South Korea’s all-purple Banwol Island is a photographer’s dream


(CNN) — A South Korean farming community has reinvented itself by transforming into an attraction perfect for the Instagram era.

Banwol Island, off the western coast of central South Korea, has become known as “the purple island” after painting the roofs of some 400 buildings a lovely shade of lilac. In addition, there are fields of lavender, amethyst-hued telephone boxes and a big purple bridge.

And with the country’s borders essentially closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, travel-hungry people are flocking to the area. Between June and August of 2020, more than 100,000 visitors came to Banwol Island, a 20% jump from the previous year.

Since 2018, more than 490,000 guests have visited the islands.

The project was planned in 2015 as part of South Jeolla Province’s branding initiative to “create attractive island destinations” and was inspired by the purple bellflowers (aka campanula) that are native to the area.

Tiny Banwol and Bakji Islands have fewer than 150 total residents. Since the purple project began, the farmers started growing kohlrabi and beets, both of which are on brand. The local government planted 30,000 New England asters and 21,500 square meters of lavender fields.

Visitors can walk between the two islands via — you may have seen this coming — another purple bridge.

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The purple bridge was fixed up and repainted in early 2020.

Courtesy of Shinan County Office

To cater to the new waves of tourists, there are a few more amenities on the island, including a cafe, two full-service restaurants (one each on Bakji and Banwol), bike rental services and a small hotel. It takes about six hours to get there from Seoul by bus or private car.

Banwol’s risky but beautiful move seems to be paying off. South Koreans who leave the country and return are subject to a two-week quarantine when they come back, so most locals are opting for domestic tourism.

Colorful towns have long been popular with travelers, even before they were engineered specifically for social media. The bright-yellow “pueblo magico” of Izamal, in Mexico’s Yucatan state, was painted its all-golden hue either to honor a visit by Pope John Paul II or to ward off a plague, depending who you ask.
Chefchaouen, Morocco was painted all in blue by a Jewish community who settled there and considered the color good luck. Though the community has long since moved away, the bright hues remain a source of joy.



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