This sure came out at an interesting but unexpected disposition that another country is thinking about building their own mecha…

And this time it’s in South Korea.

I was browsing around for more interesting news and developments on mecha online.  Thanks to Zotaku.com for this, I  ran into his blog post that explains to us how South Korea is going to respond to the recent robot project developments made by Japan.

And their answer is….

Taekwon IV Cover (Korean)

They’re going to come up a bigger robot (what else??!). It’s more than 5 times the height of Gundam in Tokyo (111 m vs 80 m). And it’ll be twice as tall as USA’s Statue of Liberty (111 m vs 46 m).  Now that’s pretty massive!!!

And they’re planning to open up a ‘robot’ theme park called the “Robot Land”, in Incheon, which is like further southwest of Korea’s capital city, Seoul.  Here’s the actual main link for it.

Now I realised this is no false claims as I’d thought it would sound. But after seeing a few factual links like this one, I’m starting to think this is going to be a very interesting development coming from a country whose IMO expert knowledge in robot-themed technology and entertainment is not as diverse as Japan’s. And they want to compete as hard as the Japanese counterparts in many things, including this!! I certainly admire for them taking this very seriously since their Government made several large (and costly) considerations to reserve money for building the theme.

What does everybody think? Do you think South Korea would have a good chance of pulling this one off?

Source: Zotaku.com, Korea IT Times

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