KTO provides tourist attractions and experience programs utilizing nation-wide grasslands and rice paddies that are fallow duringon-growing seasons,
leading to a unique combination of local culture and tourism while also increasing local residential population. In 2009,
the program expanded into Youngnam, Honam,
and Chungcheong. Experiential villages increased in number from 48 in 2008 to 63 in 2009, while
visitors to those villages increased by 8.7%, from 503,980 in 2008 to 548,045 in 2009.