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Greeting from Mayor of Chuncheon City
Greeting from the President, Organizing Committee
Greeting from Mayor of Chuncheon City
ChunCheon - a Leisure City that Will Transform Your Life!

ChunCheon City, Korea is excited to bring together over 15,000 of scholars, professionals, and policy makers in leisure, as well as world-class athletes, citizens, and enthusiasts in leisure sports for the ChunCheon 2010 World Leisure Congress and Leisure Games. The events are scheduled for August 28th to September 5th, 2010.

ChunCheon is renowned for its four-season outdoor activities, local cuisine, exciting nightlife, cultural festivals, small-town pace, international hospitality, and its focus on leisure lifestyles. It is a city of transformation that has maintained its cultural heritage while blossoming into a modern center for business, education, tourism, popular culture, and innovation. There is little doubt that ChunCheon City is an idyllic leisure destination and a welcoming host for the 2010 World Leisure Congress and Leisure Games.

We are excited to report that the newly constructed Seoul-ChunCheon highway is scheduled to open in July 2009 and the high-speed railway connecting Seoul and ChunCheon is scheduled to open in time for the 2010 events. Transportation to ChunCheon City has never been easier! ChunCheon will be accessible from all over Korea and transit times will be significantly reduced. Visitors to the World Leisure Congress and Leisure Games will enjoy the benefits of these transportation improvements and the ease of access to ChunCheon City.

We hope that you will share in our excitement as ChunCheon prepares to the welcome you in 2010! See you in ChunCheon!

Mayor of Chuncheon City
Lee Kwang-jun

Greeting from the President, Organizing Committee
Chuncheon, the City of Culture, Has Been Renewed as the World's Leisure Sports City in Peace.

I am very pleased to host the ChunCheon 2010 World Leisure Congress and Leisure Games in Chuncheon City, Korea.

As ChunCheon has the potential to be the base for inter-Korean relations, the city represents great hope for peace between nations. In hosting the World Leisure Congress and Leisure Games, ChunCheon hopes to share a message of peace with the world.

ChunCheon is a dynamic city with many leisure opportunities for locals and visitors alike! The variety of opportunities - unique tours, workshops, games and more, offered by the World Leisure Congress and Leisure Games will provide visitors with many chances to see the beauty, to contribute to peace, and to participate in the leisure lifestyle of ChunCheon City.

I invite all of you to ChunCheon in 2010 so that we can be together in harmony.

Son Eun-nam
President, Organizing Committee of ChunCheon 2010 World Leisure Congress and Leisure Games