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 [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans tend to move from one city to another instead of staying in the same city when traveling abroad. According to an analysis released by Skyscanner of flight tickets purchased by South Koreans on the travel website, the number of travelers who searched for multi-city flights grew over 700 [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea Airports Corporation’s (KAC) aviation training center opened at Gimpo International Airport on Tuesday amid growing concerns over the shortage of pilots South Korean airlines have been experiencing in recent years. The newly opened center boasts 4,000 square meters of training area and is equipped with training jets and [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Chuncheon, a city in Gangwon Province, is set to reopen a water park built on a site previously occupied by a U.S. military base next month after the success it experienced last year, attracting more than 50,000 visitors. This summer, the Ggumjaram water garden, on which the city government [...]
SEOUL/TOKYO, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean Air Lines Co.’s passenger jet made an emergency landing at an airport in southern Japan due to smoke in the cockpit, the company said Friday. It said there were no injuries or damage caused by the incident. The B737-900 jet left the port city of Busan at 09:11 [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The latest analysis by Pengtai, Cheil Worldwide’s digital marketing affiliate, has revealed that Chinese tourists visiting South Korea are becoming more attracted to the daily lives of locals instead of shopping or K-food quests. According to the analysis, which was based on some 660,000 search data on the urban [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of South Koreans visiting the Philippines shrank following the imposition of martial law in the Southeast Asian country’s southern region and the recent shooting in Manila, industry sources said Wednesday. Some 400 people have canceled their trips to the Philippines since May 25 at a Seoul-based travel [...]
SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Airbnb Inc. said Monday about 510,000 foreigners visited South Korea last year using its room-sharing platform in the latest sign of its growing popularity. The figure represents a 130-percent hike from 220,000 recorded in 2015, the website operator said. Separately, about 500,000 South Koreans also used Airbnb in traveling [...]