Korea Tourism Top 100 Stamp Tour: How the 2025-2026 Program Works

The Korea Tourism Top 100 Stamp Tour is a travel participation program tied to selected Korea Tourism Top 100 destinations. For the 2025-2026 cycle, the program began on May 1, 2025 at 87 selected sites, where visitors could receive a travel passport and collect stamps at participating attractions. ¹

The available source material shows the stamp tour as both an on-site travel activity and a series of time-limited events. Several 2025 campaigns have already ended, while a 2026 re-bid notice for operating the program lists a bidding period from June 16 to June 29, 2026, with bid opening also scheduled for June 29, 2026. ²

Korea Tourism Top 100 Stamp Tour Basics

The core idea is straightforward: visitors go to participating Korea Tourism Top 100 destinations, obtain an event passport or certification paper at the site, stamp it, and in some event formats upload a certification photo. During the summer 2025 Season 2 campaign, participation was open to anyone aged 14 or older, and the certification method involved stamping a passport or certification sheet at the destination and uploading a photo. ³

The program did not cover all 100 listed destinations in the early 2025 operation. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said the stamp tour started at 87 of the Korea Tourism Top 100 selected locations from May 1, 2025. ¹ KTV’s May 16, 2025 report also described the program as operating at 87 out of 100 national tourism spots, with each selected location issuing a tourism passport so visitors could collect stamps. ⁴

Passport distribution was part of the early rollout. KTV reported that 10,000 family-type passports were distributed in May 2025, and that 20,000 individual-type passports were scheduled for additional distribution in July 2025. ⁴ That detail matters for visitors because the stamp activity depended on obtaining the relevant passport or certification material at a participating destination or through the event process described for that campaign.

Examples of 2025-2026 Korea Tourism Top 100 destinations named in the source material include Jeonju Hanok Village, Suncheon Bay National Garden and Suncheon Bay Wetland, Ulleungdo and Dokdo, Cheorwon Hantangang Columnar Joint Road, Baekdudaegan National Arboretum, and Jeju Meochewat Forest Trail. ⁵ The sources do not provide a full list of all 87 stamp-tour sites, so visitors should rely on the official event page or on-site guidance when planning a specific route.

Past 2025 Events and Prizes

Several 2025 stamp tour events were structured around fixed campaign periods. In May 2025, the Korea Tourism Organization ran a one-month stamp tour event for Family Month, with visitors receiving an event passport at Korea Tourism Top 100 travel sites and stamping it there. ⁵

A summer campaign, described as “2025-2026 Korea Tourism Top 100 Stamp Tour Season 2,” ran until July 31, 2025. It offered prize drawings for a total of 1,150 people, with prizes including an Ashley family meal voucher, mobile fuel vouchers, and convenience store vouchers. ³ Because that date has passed, it should be treated as a completed event rather than a currently available promotion.

A later campaign focused on the highest number of verified visits. The Korea Tourism Organization said it would hold the “Korea Tourism Top 100 Stamp Tour Most Verified Visitor Event” from November 3 to 16, 2025. Participants were instructed to enter their stamp record and personal information on the event page of the “Visit Korea” domestic travel website, Korea’s official travel information platform known in Korean as 대한민국 구석구석. ⁶

The top verified participant in that November 2025 event was set to receive the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Award and a 1 million won National Tourism Gift Certificate. The runner-up prize was the Korea Tourism Organization President’s Award and a 500,000 won National Tourism Gift Certificate. ⁶

The program also included a public-facing promotional tone tied to seasonal travel. Heo So-young, head of the Korea Tourism Organization’s domestic tourism marketing team, said in connection with the November event that she hoped visitors would “enjoy autumn foliage at Korea’s tourism attractions” in November. ⁶ In the May campaign, she also encouraged visitors to make “special spring memories” at Korea Tourism Top 100 tourist sites. ⁵

What Visitors Should Check Before Joining

The most important practical point is timing. The May, July, and November 2025 events in the available sources have already ended. Readers looking to participate after June 24, 2026 should check for the current official event page, because the source material confirms a 2026 operating re-bid notice but does not provide a new visitor-facing event schedule after the listed 2025 campaigns.

The 2026 notice is still useful context for the program’s continuity. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism procurement page lists a re-bid notice for “2025-2026 Korea Tourism Top 100 Stamp Tour Operation,” handled by the Korea Tourism Organization, with the bidding period running from June 16 to June 29, 2026 and bid opening on June 29, 2026. ² That is an administrative procurement fact, not a visitor schedule, so it should not be read as a public participation period.

For trip planning, visitors should confirm three details before traveling: whether the destination is one of the participating stamp-tour sites, where the passport or certification paper is issued on site, and whether the current campaign requires an online upload or event-page submission. The 2025 sources show that participation methods varied by campaign, with some centered on on-site passport stamping and others requiring stamp records, personal information, or uploaded certification photos. ⁶³

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