Recently, more than 600,000 Koreans signed an online petition to oppose the construction of the “Korean-China Cultural Town” in Gangwon Province. This resulted in the halt of the project. In 2019, Gangwon Province and China’s People’s Daily Online agreed to start the project. The agreement was to build a Chinese Cultural Town in Chuncheon and Hongcheon—cities in Gangwon Province, South Korea—covering an area of 1.2 million square meters. It would have been more than 10 times larger than the current largest Chinatown in South Korea, Incheon Chinatown. The governor of Gangwon Province, Choi Moon-soon, called the project part of the “Cultural Belt and Road Initiative” at the launching ceremony. However, to Korean citizens, it enhances the influence and dissemination of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) culture in South Korea, under the banner of a cultural tourism exchange. On March 29, a petitioner initiated an online petition on the Blue House …