BUSAN, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Air service resumed on a route between South Korea’s Gimhae International Airport and Japan’s Fukuoka on Tuesday, making the gateway to Busan the first local airport to reopen an international route to Japan, excluding Incheon International Airport, the main gateway to Seoul, after the COVID-19 outbreak. Following a resumption [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will resume 136 flights on 22 international routes, including one connecting Seoul and Tokyo, starting next month, a state-run airport management company said Tuesday. The Korea Airports Corporation (KAC) said five airports — Gimpo, Gimhae, Jeju, Daegu and Yangyang — will reopen international routes from early June. [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s major night markets are set to reopen, their operator said Monday, after more than two years of hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Seoul metropolitan government previously operated a number of night markets at different locations to attract tourists and offer more business opportunities for small vendors. [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Ordinary citizens visiting Cheong Wa Dae will be allowed to tour the interior of some facilities of the former presidential office in the heart of Seoul from this week, a government agency said Monday. The Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) said the interior of Yeongbingwan, the state reception hall, and [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The land ministry on Friday announced its decision to postpone the plan to temporarily open to the public part of the site for an envisioned national park near the presidential office in central Seoul, citing a lack of preparations. On Thursday, the ministry said it will open part of [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Thursday it will temporarily open to the public part of the site for an envisioned national park near the presidential office in central Seoul. The U.S. military is in the process of returning the site in the Yongsan Garrison in Seoul to the South Korean government [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Cheong Wa Dae was flooded with thousands of visitors Tuesday morning, the first day the former presidential office and residence fully opened to the public after new President Yoon Suk-yeol relocated the top office. Following an opening ceremony, more than 6,000 people entered the compound in central Seoul at [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Travel agencies are frustrated over low reservation rates despite soaring demand for foreign travel, and they are blaming their difficulties on what they say are excessive measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 in South Korea. Currently, foreign travel requires a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test prior to departure, [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Demand for overseas travel is recovering as the government has lifted various quarantine policies including social distancing measures. Hana Tour Inc., South Korea’s top travel agency, reported 1,272 honeymoon reservations last month, accounting for up to 70 percent of pre-pandemic levels. Reservations have jumped more than tenfold since February [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean national flag carrier Korean Air Lines Co. said Wednesday it will extend the suspension of its Russian routes until any new positive development happens in the Russia-Ukraine war. In March, Korean Air said it will halt the operation of passenger jets to Moscow and Vladivostok, and cargo [...]