Breaking: South Korea Reveals The Largest Functional Wavegarden Pool Yet

You never want to hear about a wavepool leak, but this one’s not so bad. 

Just recently, it’s been revealed that South Korea’s Siheung Surf Park has completed its long-awaited Wavegarden pool and is running waves.

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One might assume that if they’ve seen one Wavegarden pool, they’ve seen them all. This could not be further from the truth. Because Wavegarden’s Cove technology is designed using a sequence of wave-producing modules, the size of each pool can actually be quite different.

This one, for instance, is Wavegarden’s largest functional pool to date, using 56 wave-producing modules. For comparison, the Melbourne pool (URBNsurf) uses 46, and Bristol’s “The Wave” has just 40. (Info courtesy of Wavepool Mag)

Korea’s Siheung Surf Park is part of a larger development called Turtle Island, which is being built for over half-a-billion Euros. The joint’s situated an hour south of Seoul and hopes to bring in two million tourists per year once it’s fully developed. 

All of which raises the question: how will North Korean leader Kim Jong Un feel about his mortal enemy’s recent display of power? And assuming he’s downright agitated, how will Kim fight back?

A mile-long Slater pool? Four Wacos stacked together? Or will he just nuke the Sea of Japan and send a rogue 40-foot wave in every which direction?