BEIJING/SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – China’s tourism authorities said Thursday they have decided to lift the ban on group tours to South Korea, ending a six-year hiatus caused by frayed relations following the deployment of a U.S. defense system to the South. Earlier in the day, the Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Wednesday that it will provide citizens visiting Yeouido’s Han River Park in western Seoul with free drone-captured videos. This drone video service will operate six times a day, accommodating one group per hour, exclusively on Fridays and Saturdays between August 18 and October 28. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Preferences for international travel have evolved since 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and during the first half of the current year. According to data by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, some 1.71 million individuals embarked on the Incheon-Osaka (Kansai) route between January and June, establishing it [...]
GURYE, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The Hwaeomsa Temple Mosquito Net Film Music Festival occurred on Saturday night at Hwaeomsa Temple, situated in Gurye County, South Jeolla Province. Initiated in 2021, the music festival drew inspiration from the ancestral wisdom of combatting summer heat through consumption of steamed potatoes and corn within mosquito nets. Dr. [...]
BORYEONG, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Boryeong in South Chungcheong Province introduced the very first mud playground for pet dogs at the annual Boryeong Mud Festival, which is currently being held at Daecheon Beach. The pet playground features a large mud pool, a standard-sized pool, tubes, and an obstacle course. To provide [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s fair trade regulator said Wednesday the number of consumer complaints regarding flight tickets more than doubled on-year in the first half of 2023 amid recovering demand for global travel. The number of such airline complaints filed to authorities reached 834 over the January-June period, rising sharply from [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Monday it has transformed the deck near Nanji Pond in World Cup Park, western Seoul, into “Nanji Beach.” The newly created beach boasts a waterfront and a sandy shore spanning 600 square meters. This beach replaces certain sections of the old deck within Nanji [...]
JEJU, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign travelers are returning to the southern resort island of Jeju as the pandemic fades away. According to the Jeju Tourism Association, 149,908 foreign travelers visited Jeju as of May this year, which is eight times more than last year. The travelers, sorted by nationality, included 43,502 Chinese, 22,522 [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — With the summer heat reaching 35 degrees Celsius on Sunday, leading to a nationwide heat wave warning, the country’s popular beaches and festivals teemed with vacationers. Busan’s Haeundae Beach welcomed 270,000 visitors while Gwangalli Beach received 140,000 people on the previous day. The city’s seven public beaches, in total, [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of international flight passengers recovered to nearly 65 percent of the pre-pandemic level in the first half of the year, government data showed Monday. A total of 29.5 million people boarded international flights between January and June, accounting for 64.8 percent of the 45.6 million tallied over [...]