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"Complete Missions and Discover Citizens Park!" Busan Citizens Park History Museum to Run "Every Corner of Citizens Park Mission Exploration Team"

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Busan Citizens Park History Museum, affiliated with the Provisional Capital Memorial Hall, will run the "Every Corner of Citizens Park Mission Exploration Team" from October 10 to 31, offering participants the opportunity to explore historical sites within Busan Citizens Park while completing missions.

The program will be held only on Saturdays and Sundays, excluding October 24.

The program was designed to help students learn about the modern and contemporary history of Camp Hialeah, now the site of Busan Citizens Park, while visiting historical remains throughout the park.

The program will focus on preserved buildings that remain within Busan Citizens Park. Guided by an exploration leader who presents each mission, participants will visit modern and contemporary historical sites in the park, including the Officers' Club, NCO Quarters, Quonset huts, and the Beomjeon-dong village well.

A Quonset hut is a simple prefabricated building with a semicylindrical structure.

Through the mission-based exploration, participants will learn about how each site came to be, its significance, and how it is used today, allowing them to experience the park's history firsthand.

In addition to explanations from the exploration leader, children will receive mission cards designed to encourage active participation and make the program more engaging. They will explore the sites themselves and complete missions, and after finishing all of the missions, they will receive a lucky card that can be used in the dice game.

After the exploration, participants will take part in a team dice game using the "Time Travel Along the Park Paths" game board. Divided into a children's team and a guardians' team, participants will use a game board shaped like a map of Citizens Park to review the places they visited during the exploration and learn about places they did not visit. Quizzes will also provide an enjoyable way to revisit and naturally reinforce what they learned.

The program is open to elementary school students in all grades and is free of charge. Each session is limited to eight elementary school students, with applications accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. Each participating child must be accompanied by one adult guardian.

Applications can be submitted from October 1 to 29 through the Busan Citizens Park History Museum website at https://www.busan.go.kr/citizenpark.

To ensure a high-quality educational program, additional family members, including siblings, may not participate beyond the registered child and one guardian.

For further details, please refer to the notices on the Busan Citizens Park History Museum website at https://www.busan.go.kr/citizenpark or contact the History Museum by phone at 051-888-6851 or 051-850-6061.

Busan Citizens Park History Museum opened in 2014, following the return of the former Camp Hialeah site and the development of Busan Citizens Park, to raise public awareness of the site's historical significance and symbolic value.

Ryu Seung-hoon, Director of the Provisional Capital Memorial Hall, said, "The 'Citizens Park Mission Exploration Team' held in the first half of the year received an enthusiastic response from the public. It was a program that combined fun with educational value by allowing children and their guardians to complete missions together and then review what they learned during the exploration through a dice game."

He added, "We hope this program will provide an enjoyable opportunity to discover the traces of modern and contemporary history that remain in Citizens Park and encourage greater interest in the park as one of the heritage sites of Busan, the Wartime Capital."