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World’s first nursing bottle-shaped lighthouse in Busan

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A lighthouse shaped like a nursing bottle was unveiled on a breakwater at Seoam Port, Yeonhwa-ri, Gijang-eup on September 17. Built by the Busan Regional Maritime Affairs & Port Office, it is the world’s first nursing bottle shaped lighthouse and is intended to support the city’s bid to host IUSSP International Population Conference as well as draw attention to the city’s childbirth promotion policies, besides being a tourist attraction in its own right.  

 

The pacifier is made of ceramic and all sides of the bottle have been decorated with the handprints and footprints of 144 children.

 

This lighthouse is the first tangible result of the Busan Regional Maritime Affairs & Port Office and the Busan Convention & Visitors Bureau’s Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote a ‘City Imagineering Project by Lighthouse’.

 

The Busan Convention & Visitors Bureau decided to construct various uniquely shaped lighthouses as tourism and convention symbols, and then proposed to build the nursing bottle-shaped lighthouse as its first ‘lighthouse with a message’.

 

Kim Bi-tae, chief of the Busan Convention & Visitors Bureau and the first Asian advisory board member of the Destination Marketing Association International (DMAI) was appointed as an honorary lighthouse director by Kim Young-suk, of the Busan Regional Maritime Affairs & Port Office.

 

To promote the lighthouses of Busan worldwide, postcards and calendars containing photographs of lighthouses in Busan are being distributed by the Busan Convention & Visitors Bureau.

 

For more information, please call the Busan Convention & Visitors Bureau at 051) 740-3622