SHINAN, South Korea: Dressed all in purple, bent-over women held long rakes aloft as they walked in a line to a lavender field to carry out some pruning on an island in southwest South Korea.
"I'm glad to see young people and kids visiting to see our town. They are all like my grandchildren." The tiny, tranquil islands have a little more than a hundred residents and were picked for a tourism project supported by the government.Since 2015, Shinan county has invested 4.8 billion won to turn the islands purple, including painting more than 28,000 sq m of roofs lilac.
Restaurants on the islands offer purple rice and serve food on purple plates. Some residents have taken to the purple project with gusto.Advertisement
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