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Safiya Nygaard’s cheese detour turns out to be the strangest theme park in South Korea.

Before Safiya Nygaard ever set foot in Seoul’s beauty aisles or shopping districts, she took a hard left toward Imsil County to visit a theme park built entirely around cheese. The July 31, 2019 upload, “I Went To A Cheese Theme Park In South Korea,” kicks off a six-part East Asian travel series covering beauty, style, and shopping, and it opens with Nygaard, her partner Tyler Williams, and Australian-born, Korea-based creator HojuSara touring one of the country’s odder tourist attractions. What they find is less a novelty pit stop and more a government-backed monument to Korea’s dairy history.

• Imsil Cheese Theme Park covers roughly 32 to 35 acres (139,066 square meters) and opened in November 2011 after a 39-billion-won government initiative.
• The park was built to honor Imsil County’s status as the birthplace of Korean cheese production, which dates back to the 1960s.
• Nygaard, Williams, and HojuSara take a hands-on cheese-making class, stretching curd into fresh mozzarella and string cheese, before sampling the park’s novelty cheese dishes.

A Government-Funded Ode To Korean Cheese

Imsil’s connection to cheese isn’t a marketing gimmick invented for Instagram — it goes back roughly six decades to the county’s early dairy operations, which the region has leaned into as a point of local pride ever since. The theme park itself opened in November 2011 on the back of a 39-billion-won government push to turn that legacy into an actual destination, and the scale shows it: at 32 to 35 acres, the grounds are large enough to include European-inspired castle architecture, giant Swiss-cheese-shaped landmarks, and a long rolling slide built into the hillside.

Nygaard, Williams, and HojuSara spend a good chunk of the video simply walking the property, taking in cheese-themed playground attractions that look more like something out of a European storybook than a typical Korean amusement park. It’s the kind of oddball, single-purpose attraction that tends to show up in travel deep-dives, in the same vein as the offbeat stunts InfoSearched has covered in pieces like World’s Most Dangerous Escape Room!

Hands-On With Curd

The centerpiece of the visit is one of the park’s signature hands-on cheese-making classes, where the trio learns how curd is stretched and shaped into fresh mozzarella and string cheese. It’s a straightforward process on paper — heat, stretch, pull — but watching Nygaard and Williams work the curd by hand gives the video its most memorable stretch, turning a theme park detour into something closer to a cooking demonstration.

Imsil Cheese Theme Park runs 32 to 35 acres, built off a 39-billion-won government investment to turn a 1960s dairy legacy into a full-blown tourist attraction.

Cheese On Every Plate

Once the class wraps, the group tours the park’s eateries, where the novelty runs just as deep as the architecture. The menus lean into specialty local dairy items and cheese-focused dishes that go well beyond a simple cheese plate, giving Nygaard and HojuSara plenty to react to on camera before the group heads back toward Seoul to continue the broader trip.

For a series built around beauty, style, and shopping, opening with a cheese factory tour is a deliberate curveball — the kind of large-scale, built-for-tourists spectacle that shows up elsewhere on the internet in things like World’s Largest Challenge!, where the appeal is less about subtlety and more about scale.

From here, the trio’s cameras point toward Seoul proper, where the beauty and shopping legs of the six-part series actually begin — but Imsil got the honor of being the first stamp in Nygaard’s East Asia passport, string cheese and all.