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Kŭmgangsan Tourist Region
Kŭmgangsan Tourist Region
	; Map of North Korea highlighting the region.
Korean name
Chosŏn'gŭl	금강산 관광 지구
Hancha	金剛山觀光地區
McCune–Reischauer	Kŭmgangsan Kwan'gwang Chigu
Revised Romanization	Geumgangsan Gwan-gwang Jigu
Short name
Chosŏn'gŭl	금강산
Hancha	金剛山
McCune–Reischauer	Kŭmgangsan
Revised Romanization	Geumgangsan
Statistics
Area	50 km2 (19 sq mi)
Government	Tourist Region*
Region	Yeongdong
Dialect	Kangwŏn
Notes
	*Split from Kangwŏn in 2002.

The Kŭmgangsan Tourist Region is a special administrative region of North Korea. It was established in 2002 to handle South Korean tourist traffic to Kŭmgangsan (Diamond Mountain).

Since 1998, South Korean and foreign tourists have been allowed to visit Kŭmgangsan, traveling at first by cruise ship, but more recently by bus on a newly built road through the Korean Demilitarized Zone. In 2002, the area around the mountain was separated from Kangwon-do and organized as a separately administered Tourist Region. Since 1998 over one million South Koreans have visited the resort. In July 2008, Park Wang-ja, a 53 year old South Korean tourist, was shot twice and killed when she entered a military area, according to the North Korean government.^[1] The South Korean request to a joint inquiry was denied. Forensic tests done on Wang-ja suggest that she was standing still or walking slowly when shot. This contradicted the North Korean claim that she was running and did not heed warnings. Immediately after the shooting the South Korean government temporarily suspended tours to the resort. In August 2008 the North Koreans announced that they would expel "unnecessary" South Korean workers from the resort.^[2] Before the closing of access after the 2008 shooting a few Americans were also allowed to visit, by arranging 2½-day tours through a South Korean tourism agency.