Kumdoriland - site of the 1993 World Expo -- Daejeon, Korea

We visited Kumdoriland to ride this roller coaster, which has a very different first drop.


The remainder of the ride was conventional.

The white dome houses a small indoor coaster, which finished with a strong jolt, a sudden stop, on the outdoor brake run.

Wandering around the rest of the park was something like the Scooby Doo kids in the abandoned amusement park. Except this park was something like an abandoned Epcot!
It also was something like the old Futurama cartoon show, where large eight-foot heads of great scientific and political leaders were on display.

Stephen Hawking. Otherwise known as "that wheelchair guy" to Homer Simpson.
That guy who cloned Dolly the sheep, with Dolly the sheep.

Many of these buildings are vacant. Most were not open when we visited. Some were open but had an additional fee ... there was not enough time to visit these.
The reflection at the base shows hidden details in the surroundings.

This enormous building was one of the best themed. It seemed to have some sort of anime attraction. Based on the shape, it probably is an Imax-type of movie theater.
The building is like a spaceship that's landed, but on the scale of the Jawa transporter from Star Wars.

Interesting modern art.
Poster for a wild simulator ride, that seems to have an ecological theme. Looks something like the same concept as the raft ride at Animal Kingdom.

Interesting style.
Same building, different view.

One of those closed buildings that catches your eye.		 It's covered with a mesh of old bottles!

One of the buildings that had free entry -- the Energy pavilion.
Very much like Epcot's old CommuniCore exhibits.

Something like the old World of Motion exhibits at Epcot.

Outside the Energy pavilion was this solar light collector, which normally would be on a roof. Note that motors track the sun.
Lenses in each honeycomb collect and concentrate sunlight into fiber optic cables, which go inside a building. It's as bright as a skylight, but without the added heat. What a great idea!

A section with pretty good junkyard art.

Looks something like a Star Wars fighter.

One of the additional fee buildings had a health and body museum.

It's a Maglev train!
The train is covered with perhaps 13 years of dust!

Poor abandoned Maglev train.
Somebody has humor, hiding the word "hot"...

A section of the park was set up for a Chinese culture festival.
One of several temporary buildings, but it's a pretty good copy of the Temple of Heaven

Much of this section was set up with displays that light at night.
There also were motorized diaramas, something like giant holiday store window displays.


Note the ribbons at the base of the building ... they are seen in a video at the bottom of this page ...


This dragon has a secret!
The secret is that the dragon's scales are old CD's!

This dragon has another secret ... watch the video to find out what the secret is!
Click the play button to start the video.