The Robot Theme Park has been in planning in South Korea since 2007 and should actually open this year, but unfortunately there were delays due to reviews by environmental protection authorities. Now the construction has been approved and the financing is also available. Almost all of the land for the project has been purchased and the theme park should be completed by 2018. If the part is really implemented, I definitely know where I will go on vacation in four years. Snip from Robohub:
It is expected that Phase One of the construction, which will include development of public facilities such as robot research development center, convention center, robot exhibition hall, and private facilities such as themed parks and youth hostels, will be completed in September, 2016. Phase Two, which includes development of hotels and condominiums, is expected to be complete by the end of 2018.
Korea's robot industry is showing rapid expansion with a 35% annual growth rate, and its global market size is expected to reach 500 billion US dollars by 2020 - the year by which the Korean government had set out to have a robot in every household. The Masan Robot Land Project is expected to create construction job opportunities while it is being built, but more importantly, it is hoped that it will create a large-scale consumer demand for intelligent robotics when it opens.