PYEONCHANG, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – With tourists flocking to Baengnyong Cave, the county of Pyeongchang is screaming with happiness. Despite the 240 person daily limit, tickets are sold out every day. In addition, tourists are visiting local lodgings and restaurants, stimulating the regional economy. Baengnyong Cave is a natural limestone cave 1.8 kilometers long. [...]
SEOUL/SEJONG, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to give tax refunds to foreigners who receive plastic surgery here as part of efforts to lure more tourists, whose numbers have plunged following the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak, the government said Thursday. The plan is outlined in the government’s 2015 tax code revision, [...]
GYEONGJU, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – During the forthcoming Silk Road Cultural Festival in Gyeongju, a digital duty-free shop will be operated for foreign visitors to the event. Foreign visitors will be able to order products through touchscreen-based kiosks and pick them up at the airport when they leave Korea. The Gyeongju World Culture Expo [...]
JEJU, August 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Halla Eco-Forest, the once native grassland that was reconstructed as a forest, is establishing itself as a popular summer vacation spot, even beating well-known beaches as the best vacationers’ choice. The forest stands 600 meters above sea level and temperatures are usually about five degrees lower — in the [...]
JEJU, August 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Tourists from the Islamic world who visit Jeju Island are inconvenienced by a lack of halal restaurants and proper prayer facilities. Aside from those two factors, most Muslim visitors turned out to have enjoyed their visit to Jeju. According to a survey conducted on 405 Muslim visitors that visited Jeju, [...]
HAMYANG, July 30 (Korea Bizwire)-It is hard not to get drained in the continuously hot and humid weather. Many seek foods that can give them stamina. If you go to Hamyang, you can discover the medicine from heaven,wild ginseng. The 12th Annual Hamyang Wild Ginseng Festival will be held from July 30 to August 3. [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul Metropolitan Government will launch a premium taxi-hailing service offering luxurious service with limousine-style vehicles that have 2,800 cc engines or higher. The Seoul city government announced that High-End, a premium taxi operator co-developed by the city and Korea Smart Card Company, would begin trial operation with 100 luxury taxis [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Among the Koreans, Chinese and Japanese citizens that travel abroad, it was revealed that Koreans traveled most frequently, Chinese spent the most money and Japanese went to faraway places most often. Visa card reported the results of its ’2015 Visa Survey on Travel Plans’, in which 13,603 people from 25 [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Riding the tourism boom on Jeju, more than 1 percent of the island’s land has been sold to foreigners or foreign corporations. According to the Jeju provincial government, as of June, 2015, a total of 20.78㎢ of land or 1.12 percent of the island’s total area was owned by [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Asiana Airlines, South Korea’s second-largest flag carrier, has been sued for allegedly causing serious burns to a female passenger on board one of its planes last year. The passenger in her mid-30s, identified only by her last name Jang, has filed a lawsuit seeking 200 million won (US$171,000) in [...]