[#Nonsan Entertainment Tour] One of The Best Filming Sets in Korea

Nonsan(논산) Sunshine Land & Sunshine Studio

Military Experience Center in Sunshine Land (Photo credit: Sunshine Land Homepage)

Nonsan is an agricultural city, with rice being the most important crop. Other important crops include strawberries, ginseng, napa cabbage, watermelons, and Korean pears.

More importantly, Nonsan is famous for one of the ROK Army training centers, which is a South Korean military training institution for the Republic of Korea Army basic training.

Nonsan city has developed a vast military theme park called 'Sunshine Land' to taking advantage of the military town. [source: Wikipedia]

Military Experience Center [Photp credit: Nonsan City(논산시청)]

Sunshine Land is a complex cultural space where visitors can enjoy watching and experiencing survival experience halls, military experience halls, and drama, and movie sets. It is not just an exhibition hall that can be seen by the eye, but visitors can have various experiences so that everyone can enjoy it. Survival experience is a place where you can feel the vivid battle scenes transmitted throughout your body. Experience programs at the Military Experience Center include screen shooting, indoor shooting, and VR experience.

The drama and movie set provides a vivid historical scene in the mid-1950s after the Korean War.

If you are one of the Korean drama fans, you might watch the popular Korean drama, 'Mr.Sunshine'. The drama is written by the popular drama writer, Kim Eun-sook, and popular TV actors such as Lee Byung-hun, Kim Tae-ri, Yoo Young-seok, and Byun-Yohan have appeared on the drama.

[Mr.Sunshine Poster] [Photo Credit: tvn homepage]

Mr. Sunshine centers on a young boy (Lee Byung-hun) who is born into slavery but escapes to the United States after a traumatic event. He becomes a United States Marine Corps officer and returns to Joseon during the 1871 Shinmiyangyo (U.S. expedition to Korea). While in Joseon, he meets and falls in love with an aristocrat's daughter (Kim Tae-ri), who is part of the Righteous Army. At the same time, he discovers a plot by foreign forces to colonize Korea and soon, he becomes embroiled in the fight for Joseon’s independence. [source:wikipedia]

There are major filming locations in the drama 'Mr. Sunshine' called 'Sunshine Studio'. They have a beautiful drama set to make you feel like being inside the drama.