SUNCHANG, South Korea, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Gangcheon Mountain, located in Sunchang County in North Jeolla Province, is best known for its spring water. Gangcheon’s spring water won the title as the “Best Water in Korea” awarded by the Korean Water Society in 2011 and 2012, for its richness in minerals, calcium, and magnesium. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will expand support for wellness tourism to attract health-conscious tourists across the world by combining it with unique local content such as beauty, oriental medicine, food and public saunas, the government said Wednesday. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism hosted the “International Forum on Wellness Tourism [...]
INJE, South Korea, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The 3rd Inje Wheel Festival, which was held from July 1 to 3, was found to be an unprecedented success, suggesting potential for future development. Themed “All the Fun You Can Get with Wheels”, the festival featured various events and spectacles, ranging from bicycle contest and photography [...]
SEJONG, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The opening ceremony of South Korea’s biggest shopping festival, “Korea Sale Festa,” will be held in Seoul next month, along with various concerts and exhibitions to draw more visitors and shoppers from overseas, the trade ministry said Wednesday. The event will take place on Yeongdong Daero (Boulevard) in southern [...]
TAEBAEK, South Korea, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Taebaek city has seen a dramatic increase in tourists since the official opening of a filming site of “Descendants of the Sun,” city officials said Monday. Tourists have visited the remote city in Gangwon Province to check out the filming site of KBS 2TV’s sensationally popular series [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – A hanok village will be created in the eastern coastal city of Gangneung by October, next year, to promote the beauty of traditional Korean dwellings to foreign and local tourists, the government said Thursday. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said it will construct a “hanok experience complex” composed [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and Hawaii have signed a pact to recognize the validity of noncommercial driver’s licenses issued by each other, the foreign ministry said Thursday. Under the agreement, which went into force Wednesday in the U.S. state after being signed, holders of driver’s licenses issued by their own authorities [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Sales at South Korea’s duty-free stores reached an all-time high in July thanks to a rising influx of Chinese travelers and last year’s low base in the wake of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak, data showed Tuesday. Sales at duty-free stores nationwide reached US$954 million last month, [...]
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. signed a business pact with the tourism board of Mexico’s Yucatan state to implement a project that will utilize the South Korean electronics giant’s virtual reality (VR) technologies to help develop the Mexican state’s tourism industry, the Mexican unit of Samsung said Monday. It marks [...]
PAJU, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – This is going to shake your legs. The city of Paju, in Gyeonggi Province, has finally completed the five-month construction of a hanging bridge dubbed “Wungye Hanging Bridge” on Gamaksan (mountain). The bridge is now the longest of its kind in South Korea. “Wungye Hanging Bridge is part of [...]