SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) – An inter-city bus connecting major tourist attractions in South Korea will start operating this week for the convenience of foreign travelers, the culture ministry said Monday. The service, named K-travel Bus, will exclusively serve foreigners who want to travel outside the capital city starting from Friday, the Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The yellow flowers of wintersweet trees at Changdeok palace have announced the arrival of spring. White Japanese apricot flowers and yellow sansuyu flowers fully blossomed near Nakseonjae and Geumcheon bridge, and the wintersweet flowers at the back of the palace are ready to blossom. Japanese apricot flowers and sansuyu flowers [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Tours to the Joint Security Area (JSA), Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), and Northern Limit Line (NLL) remain consistently popular among foreign visitors. According to Cosmojin, a Korean travel agency, North Korea’s nuclear experiments, the shutdown of the Kaeseong Industrial Complex, and the rapid cooling of inter-Korean relations are stirring foreigners’ [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Uber, an app-based ride-sharing service provider, has signed a marketing deal with Philippine Airlines in a bid to reach out to South Koreans, officials said Wednesday. The U.S. transportation firm has been struggling to take root in South Korea, a key Asian economy with a population of more than 50 [...]
ULJIN, March 3 (Yonhap) – A five-hour drive southeast from Seoul takes you to the tranquil seaside port of Hupo, Uljin, North Gyeongsang Province. This time of the year, the bucolic little town is bustling and brimming with seafood connoisseurs ready to gorge on crabs. Reddish crustacean structures and paintings on the walls of buildings, [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Hotel Shilla Co., an affiliate of South Korea’s top conglomerate Samsung Group, said Tuesday it plans to open a duty-free shop in downtown Bangkok, speeding up efforts to expand its overseas presence. The company said the duty-free shop, which will open within this year, comes after Hotel Shilla first established [...]
CHUNCHEON, Mar. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s provincial authorities have doubled the period of visa-free entry for Chinese transfer passengers in the latest move to attract Chinese tourists, an official said Tuesday. Gangwon Province is allowing Chinese group tourists to stay up to 10 days without visas, an increase from the previous five-day limit, [...]
SEOUL, Feb.12 (Korea Bizwire) – When traveling in foreign countries, seeing famous tourist attractions, taking in a different culture, and trying the local cuisine are some of the more typical experiences. However, shopping might be one of the most pleasurable activities; allowing tourists to actually bring a piece of the country being visited back home. [...]
DAEJEON, Feb.2 (Korea Bizwire) – The city of Daejeon is becoming increasingly popular with Chinese tourists. To receive health checkups and tour local attractions, 300 Chinese tourists will visit Daejeon during the month of February. According to the local government and the Daejeon Marketing Corporation, a total of 300 Chinese tourists will visit Daejeon this [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) - Two South Korean cities, Seoul and Jeju, were ranked among the world’s 100 most visited cities by foreign travelers in 2014, CNN reported Thursday. The South Korean capital Seoul ranked 13th in international tourist arrivals by attracting 9.39 million foreign travelers, CNN reported, citing data from Euromonitor, the British [...]