SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of Chinese people who visited South Korea last month declined 46 percent on-year, the eleventh straight month of decline following the diplomatic row between the two countries over the deployment of a U.S. anti-missile system here, government data showed Friday. The tally of Chinese visitors came to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Overseas credit-card spending by South Koreans moved up 19.7 percent on-year in 2017 due to a rise in the number of people going overseas, the central bank said Wednesday. Last year, overseas credit-card spending amounted to US$17.11 billion, compared with $14.3 billion in 2016, according to the Bank of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s trade deficit in the tourism sector hit a new record high last year, data showed Wednesday, due largely to a drop in Chinese visitors and a growing number of South Koreans traveling abroad. The country’s tourism-related earnings came to US$13.32 billion in 2017, down 22.5 percent from [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tourism officials are poised to introduce more Muslim-friendly places following criticism over the lack of halal restaurants in the country. The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) will launch Halal Restaurant Week again on a bigger scale between August and October this year, with a total of 250 halal [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) –South Korea’s main international gateway, Incheon International Airport, has been cited for having the worst on-time performance among major hub airports, a report showed Monday. According to the report by Flightstats Inc., a global flight information service provider, the airport located west of Seoul ranked 44th in terms of departure [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Incheon International Airport’s newly opened second terminal is helping facilitate passenger processing at South Korea’s main international gateway, the facility’s operator said Sunday. Since opening to the public Jan. 18, the passenger terminal that is used by Korean Air Lines Co. and planes of the SkyTeam Airline Alliance handled [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A visit to South Korea’s heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) was picked as the most popular tour destination among foreign visitors, a study showed Wednesday. According to the study by the Korea Tourism Organization, a half-day visit to the DMZ area was the most popular tour picked by foreigners [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Though the South Korean public considers the introduction of diseases originating abroad (MERS, ebola, avian influenza) a serious problem, the percentage of those who believe that they themselves are at risk of contracting one of these diseases was found to be low. In a survey of 1,000 adults carried [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Airbnb Inc. said Tuesday over 9,000 tourists will visit PyeongChang and adjacent cities where the 2018 Winter Olympics will be held via the global room-sharing platform, with the international sports event set to kick off later this week. The number of travelers who made reservations in Gangwon Province, including [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Asiana Airlines Inc. will transform itself into a passenger carrier that mainly provides service on long-haul routes to better boost profitability, the company’s president said Tuesday. For the past three decades, the country’s second-biggest full-service carrier by sales has focused on short and medium-haul routes mainly heading to Asian [...]