SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 1.1 million people are expected to travel abroad during the 10-day Chuseok holiday, which begins late this month, industry sources said Wednesday. Incheon International Airport Corp. said 980,000 people took overseas trips between April 29 and May 9 this year when many took three days of leave [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Air Seoul Inc., one of South Korea’s six low-cost carriers, said Wednesday it has added two new routes this week as part of its initial expansion strategy. Air Seoul, which started operations in October by offering flights to Takamatsu, began passenger services to Osaka and Guam on Tuesday, bringing [...]
CHANGWON, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — An annual festival aimed at understanding and sharing cultural values between Koreans and migrants is slated to open in South Korea’s southeastern city of Changwon later this month, organizers said Wednesday. The 12th Migrants’ Arirang Multicultural Festival (MAMF) will kick off its three-day run Sept. 29, bringing together art [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – With the number of female tourists visiting South Korea surpassing that of men, tourism authorities are ramping up their efforts to attract women through tour packages and other marketing strategies that are geared towards women. According to a report on immigration statistics released by the Korea Culture & Tourism Institute [...]
JEJU, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Jeju Shinhwa World, a resort complex under development on the resort island of Jeju, is gearing up to open a theme park and a K-pop entertainment center, a provincial investment promotion center said Monday. The resort project developed by Landing Jeju Development has opened in stages from earlier this [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — With the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics just five months away, South Korea’s provincial governments are ramping up efforts to use the quadrennial event as a springboard for luring more foreign tourists. The Winter Games will be held in the alpine county of PyeongChang, some 180 kilometers east of Seoul, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has high hopes that halal food will help breathe new vitality into the local tourism industry hit hard by a sharp drop in Chinese visitors over the deployment of an advanced U.S. missile defense system here. Easy access to specially prepared food can address one of the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul and Barcelona, global tourist destinations, will jointly seek a solution to their common problem of “overtourism,” described as residents’ inconvenience due to too many visitors, at a forum in the South Korean capital later this week, a city official here said Wednesday. “The two sides will discuss the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Thailand have agreed to double the number of designated airlines on their bilateral routes as Seoul tackles declining travel demand from China, the transport ministry said Wednesday. At the aviation talks held in Busan, 450 kilometers south of Seoul, Koo Bon-hwan, director general of the Aviation [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — CJ E&M said Wednesday it will build a complex in Goyang, just northwest of Seoul, by the end of 2020 to promote South Korea’s cultural content, better known as hallyu. South Korea’s leading entertainment content and media company said it will invest 1.4 trillion won (US$1.2 billion) in the [...]