SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Incheon’s Ganghwa County, comprising many border islands, west of Seoul, said Thursday it will build its second observatory to overlook North Korea to boost its peace tourism. The new observatory will be built in the form of a skywalk on top of the 242-meter-high Mount Hwagae in the county’s [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Chinese visitors from Shanghai, Guangdong Province, and economically advanced areas in China coming to South Korea have surged in number. Diplomatic sources argue that travel exchanges between China and South Korea are on the verge of recovery as China is gradually lifting its travel restrictions to South Korea originally [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreign visitor arrivals in South Korea is expected to reach an all-time high of 17.5 million this year, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) said Tuesday. The forecast, if realized, will exceed the previous annual record of 17.24 million [...]
HWACHEON, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The festive mood is already heating up in Hwacheon, a Gangwon Province county, as it is stepping up preparations to host an annual ice fishing festival next month. With the opening of the 2020 Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival just 10 days away, the central street of Hwacheon, about 120 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A handful of religious and cultural events will take place in Seoul on Christmas Day as the nation celebrates it as a public holiday. An annual Christmas Mass is scheduled for midnight at Myeongdong Cathedral, the country’s biggest, in central Seoul. Church officials said they will hold a ceremony [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreign cruise tourists visiting South Korea switched to an upturn this year for the first time in three years, mainly on the back of more arrivals from Japan and Taiwan, industry data showed Monday. Some 249,000 foreigners arrived in the country on cruise ships over the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — With Christmas less than a week away, plenty of events are set to take place across the South Korean capital for visitors to bask in the cheery holiday vibes, according to the Seoul Metropolitan Government and venue officials. If you are willing to brave the winter chill, a riverside [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A nighttime light show will take place in central Seoul for about two weeks to celebrate the end of this year and the beginning of next year, municipal officials said Wednesday. The light show, dubbed “Seoul Light,” will be staged at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza, or DDP, from Friday [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of passengers handled this year by Jeju International Airport, the gateway to Jeju Island, topped 30 million for the first time, data showed Wednesday. A total of 30,057,300 passengers traveled through the airport on the southern resort island until Dec. 16 this year, according to the data [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s annual wintertime shopping festival will kick off its 45-day run next month nationwide to attract foreign tourists to the country, a government committee said Tuesday. Next year’s festival, Korea Grand Sale 2020, is scheduled to run from Jan. 16 till Feb. 29. The festival will be a [...]