By Lee Hyo-sik
The Yeosu Expo 2012 Organizing Committee began selling tickets online for next year’s fair from Tuesday, while unveiling their designs for the first time.
A ticket for adults is priced at 33,000 won ($30), while those for teenagers, and senior citizens and children are set at 25,000 won and 19,000 won, respectively.
The organizing committee said if people buy tickets in advance by the end of August, they will receive a 15-percent discount. If tickets are purchased by the year’s end, a 10-percent discount will be provided. For those who purchase them next year before the event’s opening, tickets will be 5 percent cheaper.
The committee said this year it will only market tickets online and make them available both online and offline in 2012.
Tickets can be purchased either through the committee’s website, www.expo2012.or.kr, or online shopping mall Interpark at www.interpark.com.
The expo will be held between May 12 and Aug. 12, 2012, in the coastal city of Yeosu, South Jeolla Province, under the theme ``The Living Ocean and Coast.’’