SEOUL, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s hotels are organizing music concerts, floral design and cooking classes and other cultural events to attract customers amid keen competition in the lodging industry, industry sources said Wednesday. L7 Hotel in Hongdae, western Seoul, said it invited hip-hop musician Woogie for a concert recently and more than [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Hawaii was the most popular destination for honeymooners last year, trailed by the Thai resort island of Phuket, a travel agency said Monday. About 18.6 percent of 19,000 honeymooners, who bought group tour programs offered by Hana Tour last year, chose the U.S. resort destination, according to the biggest [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Changdeok Palace’s Nakseonjae Hall will be open to the public until the end of next month as a special spring tour program, the Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) said Friday. The seasonal program, set to run at 10:30 a.m. from Thursday to Saturday on March 29-April 28, will take visitors [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of adults traveling abroad with their parents nearly doubled in five years amid a growing number of those in their 20s and 30s taking such trips to show filial piety, industry data showed Wednesday. The number of those aged over 19 years and their parents traveling overseas [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is beefing up efforts to attract foreign tourists in line with the upcoming flowering season, the country’s tourism promotion agency said Wednesday. The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) said it has developed various programs targeting foreign visitors during April and May, and has been actively promoting them at [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreigners-only casinos in South Korea have taken a big hit from the fallout of a diplomatic row between Seoul and Beijing over the deployment of an advanced missile defense shield here, industry sources said Wednesday. In March last year, China banned the sale of package tours to South Korea [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of foreigners who experienced Buddhist temple stay programs in South Korea increased by more than a quarter in 2017 from a year ago, Buddhist officials said Friday. A total of 70,910 foreigners participated in temple stay programs last year run by the Jogye Order, South Korea’s largest Buddhist group. The figure represents a 27-percent increase from [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 14,000 students at American universities are studying Korean. Citing a report by the Modern Language Association (MLA) that analyzed foreign language study at universities, various media channels reported 13,936 students were taking Korean language courses at 2,669 U.S. universities in 2016. Korean was the 11th most studied language. Spanish [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said on March 12 that it is preparing to build prayer rooms for Muslims in a couple of the city’s major tourist areas, with the rooms expected to be available for use as early as this summer. The reason South Korea’s largest city is rolling [...]
SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreigners who visited South Korea in February marked a sharp decline from a year ago despite its hosting of the Winter Olympics in the alpine town of PyeongChang, data from the justice ministry showed Monday. According to the data, 1,077,903 foreigners entered the country last month, [...]