CHANGWON, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The southeastern city of Changwon on Monday barred public access to major cherry blossom-viewing sites to stem the spread of the coronavirus. Late last month the city government canceled its annual Jinhae Gunhangje Festival, one of South Korea’s largest cherry blossom events, scheduled to open this Friday. In a [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) — With the increase in single-person households, traveling alone is becoming a new trend, prompting travel companies to creating new custom packages for single-person households. Then, how do unmarried men and women perceive traveling alone? According to a survey of 345 single men and women conducted by matchmaking agency DUO, [...]
SEOUL, March 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will conduct pre-boarding temperature checks on all outbound passengers at the country’s main gateway starting next week to prevent the new coronavirus from spreading further, the transport ministry said Thursday. The Incheon International Airport Corp. (IIAC), the operator of the Incheon International Airport, will conduct passenger temperature [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A string of blossom festivals that symbolize the onset of spring in South Korea have been canceled this year amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak here. The city of Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, said last week that it will cancel this spring’s Jinhae Gunhangje Festival, originally set to begin on [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s tourism industry has taken a big hit from the novel coronavirus due to a reduction in both inbound and outbound tourism, stoking concerns that more industry players will eventually shut down, market watchers said Thursday. The number of countries imposing entry bans on travelers who recently visited [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of foreign countries enacting bans on the entry of visitors travelling from South Korea or tightening travel restrictions for the Asian nation as Seoul has reported a drastic increase in new coronavirus infections in recent days. South Korea has seen the number of confirmed coronavirus cases [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite Jeju Island’s tourism industry being at risk due to the coronavirus outbreak, many consumers are voicing discontent due to the island’s poor tourism services. Netizens are blaming the island’s tourism industry for unreasonable prices, unfriendly workers and low quality customer service. “There is a virus in Jeju Island [...]
HWACHEON, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — This year’s Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival, a popular winter event hosted by the Gangwon Province county of Hwacheon, northeast of Seoul, drew to a close on Sunday, after more than 400,000 tourists from home and abroad enjoyed 21 days of ice fishing, bare hand fishing and other winter activities. [...]
HWACHEON, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Organizers of the 2020 Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival, a world-famous winter event now under way in the Gangwon Province town, northeast of Seoul, said Thursday that they have been making all-out efforts to ensure the safety of Korean and foreign visitors, particularly in the face of the new coronavirus [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s tourism industry is expected to take the hardest hit among local businesses here from the outbreak of a new coronavirus as more citizens cancel their overseas trips out of infection concerns, industry data showed Tuesday. According to the country’s largest travel agency HanaTour, a total of 187,000 [...]