SEOUL, Nov.11 (Korea Bizwire) – A tourist package that provides an aerial tour of Pyeongyang has been launched. The Swedish travel agency ‘Korea Konsult’ (www.koreakonsult.com), which caters to tourists wanting to visit North Korea, made an announcement on its homepage that it is providing foreign tourists who visit North Korea with a special opportunity to [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will build a second airport on the country’s southern resort island of Jeju to better handle a spike in passenger traffic, the government said Tuesday. The growing popularity of Jeju Island off South Korea’s southern coast and a sharp surge in demand for low cost carrier flights [...]
BUSAN, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire)-On October 26, 78 Chinese couples tied the knot in a group wedding ceremony held at Haeundae Beach in Busan. Busan mayor Seo Byung-soo officiated the wedding, wishing the couples happiness as they embarked on new lives together. The couples arrived in Busan on October 25, and had wedding photos taken [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean tourists to Japan has hit an all-time high this year as the yen’s continued weakness makes travel to the neighboring country cheaper, industry data showed Sunday. A total of 2.86 million South Koreans visited Japan in the first nine months of the year, up [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Eastar Jet has announced that it will operate irregular flights from Incheon to Dandong, China. It is the first time that an airline from a country other than China airline offers service to Dandong. The planes of Eastar Jet will fly from Incheon to Dandong twice a week on [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Jeong-dong, where a significant amount of early modern cultural heritage is concentrated, is set to stage another installment of its Jeong-dong Culture Nights. As part of the event, which runs from October 29 to 31, many cultural facilities will be open until 10 p.m., and many will lower their [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – As Koreans have started to see holidays as simply a ‘day off’, sales at amusement parks and businesses related to traveling have greatly increased. KB Kookmin Card analyzed big data related to the average daily sales of travel and entertainment businesses during the Chuseok holidays (Korean Thanksgiving) and the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) announced that next year’s plan for its ‘Vivid Cultural Heritage’ program has been confirmed. The program uses the meaning and value of cultural assets as cultural content, to allow citizens to experience heritage vividly. The CHA selected 88 businesses among 197 applications that were submitted [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and India agreed to increase the number of weekly flights and destinations that can be served by their respective flag carriers, the government said Friday. The agreement, reached after two days of negotiations in New Delhi on Thursday, calls for raising the number of flights allocated to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) - Foreign visitors here will have a chance to learn how to dance just like K-pop idols from professional choreographers, the Seoul municipal government said Thursday. It is part of the city’s efforts to provide foreign tourists with diverse hands-on experiences while being here so as to attract more of them [...]