SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Officials from Yongsan-gu, Seoul, have announced that the Itaewon Global Village Festival will be held on October 17 and 18. The local government says that the festival will be the biggest in size compared to previous festivals held in the past years. Most events will take place on Itaewon’s [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Park Gyeong-cheol, a 35-year-old pilot for Asiana Airlines Inc., thought he had found his lifetime job when he first entered the company years ago. Following grueling training and tests, he was proud and made a promise to himself to stay with the country’s second-largest flag carrier till the end [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Chinese tourists, famous for leaving shelves bare when they shop abroad, went on a a shopping spree in Korea, Japan and the U.S. during the National Holiday of the People’s Republic of China. According to a Chinese journal, many Chinese tourists visited Korea and Japan during the holidays, with [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A video on the tourism in South Korea featuring hallyu star Lee Min-ho has broken 20 million views on YouTube in two months since its release, his agency said Wednesday. The advertisement titled “Korea, let your story begin” drew 22.2 million views as of Tuesday after being released in [...]
BUSAN/SEJONG, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A direct air route linking South Korea’s largest port of Busan and the key European transportation hub of Amsterdam will open in late October, the government said Friday. Busan municipal authorities and the transportation ministry said an agreement reached at talks in The Hague earlier this week will [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) -Taxies and call-vans that rip off foreign tourists or issue fake receipts are increasingly being caught. After police cracked down on the illegal acts of taxies and call-vans, 139 cases were reported and 19 drivers were arrested and face criminal charges. The others will face administrative penalties from local governments. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire)-Airbnb, the world’s largest accommodations sharing service, was ruled to be illegal by a Korean court for the first time. Airbnb is a service that acts as an intermediate between a person wishing to sublet their property and those looking for accommodations, and receives commission in return. It is one of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s retail and tourism industries are preparing a slew of promotional and cultural events to woo back Chinese travelers during a long-haul holiday season, pinning their hopes on making up for a summer slump in the wake of a viral respiratory illness, sources said Monday. Since the first [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire)– Osaka has turned out to be the place the most Korean people visited during the first half of the year. According to the Hotel Price Index developed by Hotels.com, the online hotel reservation site, Osaka ranked first as the tourist attraction most visited by Koreans from January to June. Hong [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of Chinese people visiting South Korea is returning to levels seen before the MERS outbreak in May, data showed Thursday. About 303,000 Chinese people traveled to South Korea in the first 14 days of this month, up 4.8 percent from the same period last year, according to the [...]