SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of visitors at the country’s tallest skyscraper built by retail giant Lotte Group has recently topped the 10 million mark, its operator said Tuesday, marking the 100th day of the building’s opening. The 123-story Lotte World Tower, which opened in early April, had a daily average 120,000 visitors, [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of South Koreans going overseas has increased this year, but they have cut back on spending compared with the past, the latest data showed Tuesday. Some 10.52 million people went on overseas trips between January and May this year, up 18.9 percent from the same period last [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreign cruise tourists visiting South Korea has declined sharply in recent months, government data showed Monday, amid a diplomatic row with China over the deployment of a U.S. anti-missile system. China has been banning package tours to South Korea since March as part of its economic [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans’ highly favorable attitude towards studying abroad might be coming to an end, as the latest figures show the number of students under 19 years of age who went abroad for academic purposes dropped by a third over the past nine years. Data released by Statistics Korea on Thursday [...]
SEJONG, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of South Korean overseas travelers and foreign visitors reached record highs last year thanks to a rise in more people entering the country, a government report showed Thursday. The number of international migrants, referring to those who stay in and out of South Korea for 90 days [...]
BORYEONG, South Korea, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Leading K-pop stars Psy and IU plan to throw free stand-alone concerts at this year’s Boryeong Mud Festival, according to organizers Thursday. Psy will hold a concert July 25 at Daecheon Beach, 170 kilometers southwest of Seoul, the venue for the mud festival, celebrating its 20th year, [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) – An increasing number of South Korean tourists are staying at one hotel or resort for a longer period of time to have a more relaxing holiday. According to online retailer Interpark Tour, the number of hotel reservations made for longer than a week accounted for over 10 percent of [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Wealthy tourists from the Middle East spent the most in South Korea last year, a new tourism report has revealed. According to the Korea Culture and Tourism Institute, Middle Eastern tourists spent an average of approximately $2,593 last year, amounting to nearly 3 million won when exchanged to Korean won, [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Local hotels are looking for tie-ups with airline companies to bring cabin crews to their facilities as they search for hidden markets to survive stiff competition, industry officials said Sunday. Flight attendants and cockpit crews spend nearly half a year overseas and stay up to four days at a [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A government arbitration commission on Thursday ruled in favor of a county in Gangwon province that has been planning to set up a cable car on a popular mountain range near the nation’s eastern coast. In the ruling, the Central Administration Appeal Commission under the Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights [...]