SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government is ramping up its efforts to attract tourists from Taiwan and Southeast Asian countries amid a drastic drop in the number of Chinese visitors. Over 2,000 employees from a Taiwanese food franchise company are expected to travel to the South Korean capital on a group trip [...]
CHUNCHEON, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Referred to as “Lake City” for its proximity to water, the city of Chuncheon in Gangwon Province is aiming to adopt a new moniker with its National Leisure Sports Festival to be held on August 25. Chuncheon’s road to becoming a domestic hub of leisure sports is a winding [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of Chinese tourists in South Korea declined nearly 70 percent on-year last month, marking a drop for five straight months following China’s ban on sales of Korea-bound trips amid a diplomatic row over the deployment of a U.S. anti-missile system here, government data showed Tuesday. The tally [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The government and private companies alike are moving to accommodate a rise in Muslim tourists who have become a new source of growth for South Korea’s tourism industry that has been hit hard by the departure of Chinese travelers, with calls being made to overcome shortcomings in local infrastructure [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A Korean movie about a cabbie who took a German journalist to the center of the Gwangju pro-democracy uprising in 1980 became this year’s first film to attract more than 10 million moviegoers Sunday, its distributor said. “A Taxi Driver,” released Aug. 2, became the 15th Korean movie and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Cho Eun-kyung, 34, living in Seoul, is determined to lock herself up in a prison cell before this summer ends. It doesn’t mean she’s going to do anything bad or illegal. She will drive about 102 kilometers east to Hongcheon County in Gangwon Province, where she will be idling [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A winding cartoon mural street in Seoul’s Gangdong Ward has won the 2017 Asian Townscape Award from the Asia-Pacific regional office of the U.N. Human Settlements Program, the ward office said Monday. The street in southeastern Seoul, dubbed the Kang Full Cartoon Alley, is lined with wall paintings bearing [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Koreans traveling to China plunged from April through June of this year amid the diplomatic row over Seoul’s decision to deploy U.S. anti-missile defense systems on its soil, tourism industry data showed Sunday. The total visitors going to China fell by 50 to 60 percent [...]
INCHEON, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s largest urban virtual reality-theme park, Monster VR, opened its doors to the public in Incheon on Thursday, the government said. The park is located on the 1,320 square meters of land in the Songdo district of Incheon on the western outskirts of Seoul, according to the Ministry [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Just seven years ago, Cho Soo-kyung, a public relations agency worker, hardly had time for herself as her job demanded nearly every moment of her waking hours. A sense of devotion and achievement were her rewards, or at least that’s what her company wanted her to believe. “Then, I [...]