SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of South Koreans traveling abroad is expected to jump during the upcoming Chuseok season which falls in early October as the holiday could be as long as 10 days, industry data showed Monday. Chuseok, one of the biggest annual holidays here and roughly equivalent to Thanksgiving in [...]
POHANG, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — For the past five months, a fire has burned day and night in the heart of Pohang. Which is why the city announced on August 24 that it has begun the construction of a ring of fire-resistant glass and a platform around the fire in order to turn it [...]
JEJU, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Oceans Minister Kim Young-choon on Friday pledged government measures to attract more cruise tourists to South Korea, aiming for more than 3 million visitors by 2020. Speaking at the opening of the 2017 Asia Cruise Forum Jeju on the southern resort island, the policymaker said the government will be [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of South Koreans expected to travel abroad is set to be twice that of foreigners visiting the country this year amid a sharp drop in the arrival of Chinese nationals, a state-run tourism agency said Thursday. The January-July tally showed that some 7.76 million foreigners came to [...]
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 [...]