SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Efforts to use product placement to advertise tourism in Seoul on Chinese and Taiwanese television programs are paying off. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Government, ten Chinese (and Taiwanese) TV programs that featured different sites around the capital in accordance with agreements made with local broadcasters have attracted some [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Here’s good news for travelers flying through South Korea. Walkerhill Hotel announced Tuesday that it is opening Korea’s first “capsule hotel” on January 20 at Incheon International Airport – the nation’s hub for air travel. Dubbed “Darak Hyu”, the hotel should be of interest to the airport’s transfer passengers, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s air passenger traffic has reached a new high on a sharp increase in international passengers to and from the country, the transportation ministry said Monday. Air passenger traffic has already reached over 100 million as of Monday, breaching the 100 million mark for the first time in [...]
BEIJING, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and China have wrapped up their “Visit Korea Year 2016″ campaign in Beijing in a ceremony overshadowed by a diplomatic feud over Seoul’s missile shield plan. South Korean Minister of the Culture, Sports and Tourism Cho Yoon-sun and China National Tourism Administration Chairman Li Jinzao presided over [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea said Friday that it will issue multiple entry visas for Chinese travelers who buy expensive vacation packages, the latest in a series of Seoul’s attempts to attract rich Chinese tourists. The government said Chinese — who purchase a travel package worth more than 3 million won (US$2,500) [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The recent popularity of TV programs highlighting culinary arts and restaurants is driving more men to take cooking classes. According to local private cooking academies, an increasing number of men have been signing up for classes recently, with reasons ranging from acquiring cooking certificates to simply wanting to be [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of foreigners who visited South Korea this year surpassed 16 million in early December thanks to the rising influx of travelers from Asian nations, the state-run tourism agency said Tuesday. A total of 15.9 million foreigners visited the nation in the January-November period, up 31.3 percent from [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean households’ overseas spending rose 16.8 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier on increased outbound travel to foreign countries, the central bank said Tuesday. South Korean households spent 8.21 trillion won (US$7 billion) overseas in the July-September period, compared with 7.03 trillion won in the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs has ruled in favor of Seoul’s COEX area in Gangnam as the ultimate destination for Korea’s first “free outdoor billboard display zone”. In line with the decision, the region will be turned into a neighborhood similar to Manhattan’s Times Square, with [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of South Korean overseas tourists rose in November from a year earlier despite the offseason, industry data showed Friday, sparking concern over the country’s continued tourism deficit. Hana Tour Co., the nation’s largest travel agency, said some 242,000 South Koreans traveled abroad through the company last month, [...]