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Largest Number of Beachgoers Recorded This Year Since the COVID-19 Pandemic

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    2025.10.29.

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Largest Number of Beachgoers Recorded This Year Since the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Number of beachgoers expected to reach 44.05 million, an increase of 3 million from 2024


  The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries (MOF; Minister Chun Jae-soo) announced that all 254 of the nation’s beaches have closed for the season, with Haeundae Beach being the last to close on September 14. It also reported that the number of beachgoers this summer increased by 3 million to 4.405 million compared to the previous year, the highest since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020.

  To prevent safety accidents involving beachgoers, MOF held three inter-agency safety inspection meetings around the opening period of the beaches this summer and conducted intensive on-site inspections of approximately 100 beaches to improve their safety management systems and address various risk factors.

  The Ministry has reinforced safety management starting this year by deploying safety guards in all designated areas of beaches, strengthening private-public joint patrols with the local residents and the Coast Guard (3 times or more a day), and posting notices and guidance for water play at each beach such as wearing a life jacket and no drinking and swimming.
  Moreover, it carried out various efforts to prevent water safety accidents for the public by conducting special on-site inspections of beaches from September 1 to 19 in cooperation with local governments in preparation for the occurrence of water safety accidents even after the beach is closed.

  “We managed beaches by creating a safe beach environment as our top priority this year. We hope the public will refrain from playing in the water when visiting closed beaches and follow safety management rules such as wearing a life jacket,” Minister of Oceans and Fisheries Chun Jae-soo said.
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