Following Metaverse Seoul, Virtual Gangwon Also Ends Service -- What Is the Future of Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province Metaverse: Following Metaverse Seoul, Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province Virtual Gangwon also announced service termination, raising skepticism about local government metaverse businesses. While COVID-19 accelerated digital transformation nationwide causing local governments to competitively rush into metaverse platform development, Metaverse Seoul lasted about 1 year and 9 months after its January 2023 official launch, and Virtual Gangwon closed just two months after service opening. Despite investing budgets targeting local promotion and administrative service innovation, results did not meet expectations. MetaX analyzed the Virtual Gangwon failure -- the key lesson: without a clear vision and goals for why the metaverse platform needed to exist and how it would be used, the technology was just technology; Virtual Gangwon opened without solving the fundamental question of what citizens would do there repeatedly; the two-month closure suggests that even initial usage failed to meet minimum viability thresholds; the contrast with Minato Ward metaverse (which solved a specific problem -- citizen access to government services) illustrates that purpose-first rather than technology-first design is essential for government metaverse success.