SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government on Tuesday announced a list of 10 citizens who will join the city’s bell-tolling ceremony on New Year’s Eve, the first such in-person event in three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Cho Gue-sung, a member of the national football team who competed in the [...]
JEJU, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — An all-time high of 13.59 million South Koreans visited the southern resort island of Jeju this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Jeju Tourism Association said Monday. A total of 13.68 million people from home and abroad visited Jeju between Jan. 1 and Dec. 25, up about 16 percent [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The front lawn of the presidential office is expected to open to the public as early as April after the required budget passed through parliament last week, officials said Monday. The land surrounding the presidential office was previously used as a U.S. military base and is currently in the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s luxury hotels are competing to attract young customers by targeting the current trend of taking photos for Instagram. Paradise City, a casino and hotel complex in Incheon, reported 100,000 people have visited the hotel’s Christmas market since Dec. 16. The market, which covers an area of 8,100 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Night-time mountain climbing at Mount Halla on South Korea’s southern Jeju Island, which recently reopened after a two-year hiatus, is gaining popularity. All reservations for early morning mountain climbing on Jan. 1 next year filled up just one hour after reservations opened at 9 a.m. on Dec. 1. A [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Overseas credit card use in November, typically part of the travel off-season, jumped significantly this year, largely due to the quick recovery of interest in foreign travel, data showed Wednesday. Overseas credit card spending at seven card companies reached 1.63 trillion won (US$1.26 billion) in last month, which was [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean e-commerce company Interpark Corp. said Tuesday its sales of plane tickets more than tripled in November from a year earlier on the back of pent-up demand for travel. Interpark said sales of plane tickets booked on its website amounted to 121.2 billion won (US$92.8 million) in November, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Two parks along the Han River in Seoul will operate sledding hills from Dec. 23 through Feb. 12, city officials said Monday. Ttukseom Han River Park will open its sledding hill for the first time since the outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020, the Hangang Project Headquarters of the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Japan have agreed to expand the number of flights on the Gimpo-Haneda route to the pre-pandemic level to meet recovering travel demand amid eased virus curbs, the transport ministry said Wednesday. Korean Air Lines Co. and Asiana Airlines Inc., South Korea’s two biggest carriers, will gradually [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The workforce of major South Korean travel agencies has nearly halved over the past three years due to the coronavirus pandemic, with the number of tour firms also plummeting, industry data showed Thursday. The headcount of industry leader Hana Tour came to 1,204 as of the end of September [...]