SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean Internet giant Naver announced Wednesday the launch of ConA (Context Recognition AI), an artificial intelligence platform that automatically recommends travel destinations overseas. According to Naver, ConA uses deep learning technology and makes use of big data from online tour sites or restaurant information to come up with [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s asset managing giant Mirae Asset Financial Group said Monday that it will invest about 1 trillion won (US$827 million) into building a luxury resort complex on the country’s southwest coast by 2029. In August 2016, a consortium led by the financial group was selected as a preferred [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The government will work to develop what it called tailor-made tour programs that will meet the various tastes of tourists from China and other countries, the tourism ministry said Friday. The new programs to be developed will target individual tourists or small groups, according to the Ministry of Culture, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – One particular social trend finding prominence in 2016 was the “do-it-yourself” movement. In a society that places high importance on group activities, and emphasizes that everything be done “together,” the concept of dining alone, studying alone, or even drinking alone, seemed alien in the past, and these types of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – In a series of what are being seen as retaliatory measures over Korea’s decision to deploy an American THAAD missile battery, the Chinese government recently rejected a request from South Korean airlines to operate charter flights between the two countries, adding to previously announced orders to cut down the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The share of South Korea’s low cost carriers in international passenger traffic topped 20 percent last month, aided by growing demand for cheap air tickets and expanded capacity, data showed on Friday. According to the data compiled by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, a total of 1.27 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Local tour agency Cosmojin Tour announced Tuesday the top five tourism trends in 2016 for inbound travelers. According to Cosmojin, this year was marked by an increasing number of individual tourists, instead of group tours, and company officials said the number of inquiries for the tours rose by 30 [...]
BUSAN, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Over the past few years, Busan, Korea’s second most populous city, has grown increasingly popular as a cruise destination. The number of tourists arriving on cruise ships, which topped 50,000 in 2011, began to increase rapidly beginning in 2012, jumping to 113,000 in 2013, and then doubling again to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Foreign tourists arrivals in South Korea are expected to surpass a record high of 17 million people this year on the back of a sharp increase in Chinese tourists, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said Monday. The number of foreign tourists to South Korea fell 6.8 percent [...]
CHEONGSONG, South Korea, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The UNESCO Global Geoparks Network has recommended that Cheongsong National Geopark in South Korea’s southeastern region be registered on its geoparks list, the Cheongsong municipality said Friday. The recommendation to the municipal government in the country’s southeast province of North Gyeongsang raises the prospects that the mountainous [...]