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 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — As travelers’ tastes and preferences tend to be particular, domestic travel trends are also forecasted to grow stronger next year. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Tourism Organization analyzed 1.6 million posts on social media, including Facebook and Instagram, and selected R.E.F.O.R.M. as the 2020 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Incheon International Airport is famous for its spectacular landscaping, made possible through the efforts of devoted experts at a dedicated plant clinic. Incheon International Airport Corp. (IIAC), the operator of Incheon International Airport, said 1.3 billion won (US$1.1 million) is spent each year for landscaping, which is equivalent to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A new footbridge will be built next year to connect Seoul Station with Seoullo 7017, a sky garden for pedestrians in central Seoul, the municipal government said Monday. The Seoul government said it will sign an MOU on the Seoul Station footbridge project with the Korea Rail Network Authority [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — PyeongChang, the venue of the 2018 Winter Olympics, is gearing up to host two winter festivals to attract tourists from home and abroad. The county government of PyeongChang, about 180 kilometers east of Seoul, said Friday it is putting the finishing touches on the 13th PyeongChang Trout Festival and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea announced a package of policy measures, including the expansion of a visa-free stay program, on Thursday to help the country’s flourishing tourism trickle down to smaller regional provinces. The measures were discussed in a government meeting on strategies to promote regional tourism held in the southern city [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States have agreed to reduce inconveniences South Korean travelers experience when entering the U.S. mainland, the transport ministry said Wednesday. In its annual aviation security meeting held in Washington last week, the Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport said it signed a “joint statement” [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The mountain just behind the presidential compound will be fully opened to the public in stages before mid-2022, more than a half century after it became off-limits to the public for security reasons, Cheong Wa Dae said Tuesday. It means citizens will be able to walk across the 1.1 [...]