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7 Exhibitions and 15 Gardens by Theme in Korea Floritopia 2009
During the ‘Anmyeon-do Island International Floritopia’ which will be held from April 24, 2009 to May 20, 2009, shall 7 Exhibitions and 15 Gardens by theme be formed and run. The Floritopia on the site of 793,000m² near the Kkotji Beach Park will be held with the theme of ‘Flower, Ocean and Dream’ and with subtitles of ‘The world that become affluent with flowers’, ‘The Satisfaction of 1million Volunteers and the Future of Taean’. The Floritopia 2009 has a plan to avoid monotonous exhibition of flowers and provide diverse attractions like flower parks and gardens by theme. Also, there will be many performances and events such as folk games, B-boy performance, Samba performance, Magic performance using flowers and other events totally amounting to 281 during the Floritopia period.
Exhibition Space consists of 7 exhibition halls, that is, Theme exhibition(2,622㎡), Flower of the Future exhibition(2,400㎡), Exchange of Flower exhibition(2,400㎡), Wild Flower exhibition(1,309㎡), Flower Food exhibition(330㎡), Company exhibition(900㎡) and Fern exhibition(330㎡).
And there will be the symbol of this Floritopia and 15 gardens with special topics, namely, Sea garden, Sotdae garden(Sotdae is a Korean word representing a pole signifying prayer for a good harvest), Hope garden, Sunrise garden, Into the fairy tales, Flower and butterfly garden, Surf garden, Tunnel of Bottle gourds Dreaming maid, Rose garden, Hub garden and Arboretum.
For example, a statue of a girl praying for the rapid recovery of the damaged areas caused by the Hebei Spirit oil spill disaster and a statue of a woman representing hope will be made in topiary form in the Hope garden.
The organizing committee expects that average audience of 40,741 a day, maximum visitors of 81,482 a day and total audience of 1.1 million will come to the Floritopia.

‘Korea Floritopia 2009’ Got Unanimous International Recognition from AIPH
‘Korea Floritopia 2009’ which will be held in the Anmyeon-do island got international recognition with unanimity of all participants at the 60th general meeting of AIPH.
To get the international recognition by AIPH, ‘Korea Floritopia’ got a preliminary recognition at the AIPH Marketing Committee(held in Budapest, Hungary) on April 22nd, 2008 and got central government's approval for an international event on June 13rd., 2008. After those procedures, Korea Floritopia was finally recognized at the general meeting of AIPH held in Dubai.
After that final recognition by AIPH, 54 institutions from 21 countries including Netherlands, Germany, France, U.S.A, and Japan expressed their will to participate. Within Korea, totally 110 institutions and companies including 56 public institutions like the Rural Development Administration, the Korea Forest Service, 16 provinces and metropolitan cities and others, in addition to 54 floricultural companies, already manifested their will to participate.

 

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AIPH : AIPH is an international organization consisted of 33 members from 25 countries. Currently, it has local organizations by continent to represent international interests of floricultural companies and has considerable influence over the floricultural industry.