By Sophie Williams
BBC Facts
Image source, Ted Rayes
A colorful portion of Wreck Touchdown On You was filmed in Switzerland
In the puny village of Iseltwald, of us come by at a pier, no longer to protect a boat nonetheless to protect a image of the attach their favourite Korean drama was filmed.
Wreck Touchdown On You is a savor story in which a excessive-flying South Korean heiress by accident paraglides into North Korea, lands on a soldier and falls in savor with him.
Gleaming sections of the TV demonstrate fill been filmed in Switzerland and now followers are travelling to heaps of areas to reminisce.
At the touchdown pier, of us queue to protect photos, movie movies and some even carry drones to be clear they fill the compatible shot.
“Wreck Touchdown on You is a stupendous story of two of us coming from very opposing worlds and falling in savor no topic their variations. I discovered this story very heart-warming and titillating,” talked about Yanina Seifermann, a German who cherished looking on the demonstrate and decided to visit since the areas fill been so shapely.
“It was so amazing. I at present felt transported support to the scenes of the K-drama and felt extra connected to the characters,” she instant the BBC.
Appropriate 5 minutes far from the pier in Iseltwald is Lodge Chalet du Lac, the attach one personnel member owes his job to the demonstrate.
Carlo Fittipaldi, who lives a transient force away in Interlaken, was buying for work when his wife urged he watch in Iseltwald after seeing it on Wreck Touchdown On You.
Chalet du Lac took him on and now he sees vacationers entering the resort to attach a inquire of to questions on the positioning.
“Thank God, due to the my wife and thanks to the the Korean TV series,” he instant the BBC. “I didn’t even know the existence of Iseltwald in the past!”
“At some level of the summer season I would typically seek for dozens of of us straight away, waiting at a distance to protect photos on the dock. I seek for them in the morning each time I’m going to work,” he talked about.
Image source, Netflix
Wreck Touchdown On You has been incredibly standard on streaming position Netflix
But there would possibly maybe be a possibility of Iseltwald turning into a victim of its get success. One poster on Instagram complained of getting wait up to half of an hour for yet every other vacationer to know out taking photos.
“After ending, she stood to verify photos on her cell cell phone savor a crocodile blocking a canal,” the actual person wrote.
Iseltwald is never any longer the finest space in the Interlaken discipline that followers of the demonstrate are heading to. Scan by Instagram and it’s doubtless you’ll even seek for rankings of followers recreating scenes from the demonstrate in locations equivalent to Sigriswil and Grindelwald.
Nana Chiang, who lives in London, visited First mountain strategy Grindelwald to boot to Iseltwald.
“Me and my boyfriend of route savor the drama so we took photos in the categorical identical attach,” she instant the BBC, explaining how she had additionally made movies utilizing music from the drama. “Or no longer it’s very exciting to discover the scenes in real lifestyles!”
“I was no longer a large fan of K-dramas nonetheless Wreck Touchdown On You of route got me into it. It mounted my boredom from the Covid lockdown,” she talked about. It additionally helped her reconnect with pals in Taiwan who fill been additionally looking at it.
Image source, Nana Chiang
Nana Chiang and her boyfriend visited First in Grindelwald to recreate actually one of the scenes
The demonstrate was launched compatible sooner than a different of countries went into lockdown and turned a astronomical world success.
It turned South Korea’s third-most sensible doubtless rated drama in cable television historical past, with a nationwide moderate viewership of 21%. In China, the streaming provider screening the demonstrate crashed on the evening of the final episode due to the the sheer different of users.
Past Asia it additionally did successfully, elegant the Interlaken vacationer board which has described the demonstrate’s reach as “phenomenal”.
“We had some hope nonetheless, no, we never counted on the form of enormous reach and recognition that Wreck Touchdown On You brought with it,” Renato Julier of Interlaken tourism instant the BBC.
Bus firms in neighbouring Italy fill already organised excursions to the most up-tp-date areas in the demonstrate equivalent to Iseltwald, Sigriswil and Lake Brienz, he talked about.
“We’re clear of us would possibly maybe be impressed by the unbelievably correct photos of the series.”
Some firms fill already began working journeys to areas equivalent to Sigriswil bridge and Iseltwald
Or no longer it is never the principal time of us fill been drawn to idyllic locations in Europe in accordance with their favourite movie or television demonstrate.
For decades, vacationers fill headed to Austria to discover the sites around Salzburg popularised by The Sound of Tune.
As with the 1965 classic musical, there are hopes that the honest scenery frail in the Korean drama will attract extra visitors, in particular as soon as of us are able to completely creep as pandemic restrictions ease.
“It is and would possibly maybe presumably continue to be a correct demonstrate demonstrate our future pals the beauty of the Interlaken holiday web page,” Mr Julier talked about.
