INCHEON, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The construction of South Korea’s largest cruise terminal has been completed in Incheon, west of Seoul, officials said Tuesday. The two-story terminal with a space of 7,364 square meters has a 430-meter-long berth that can accommodate the world’s largest 225,000-ton cruise ship. Located in Incheon’s Songdo International City, the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Changgyeong Palace in Seoul will be routinely available for night tours starting next year, the Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) said Tuesday. The decision is in line with people having more leisure time after the launch of the 52-hour maximum workweek, the state-run administration said. The palace used to be [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of South Koreans are opening their wallets to purchase plane tickets to go overseas. In fact, South Koreans spent a record-breaking amount of money overseas last year, and the total is only expected to increase in the future. Overseas consumption is gaining importance as a subset [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7. (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul metropolitan government opened the entire walkway encircling a royal palace in the South Korean capital to the public Friday almost 60 years after it was blocked off by the British Embassy. Visitors have been unable to complete a circuit of the walkway along the stone wall around Deoksu Palace, [...]
CHUNCHEON, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Jungdo neighborhood in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, chosen for the construction of South Korea’s first Legoland, will also be home to a prehistoric theme park. LL Development Co. announced on Wednesday that it will build the Jungdo Prehistoric Theme Park in the 110,000㎡ cultural properties reservation zone. LL Development [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tourists’ interest grew the most for Portugal and Hungary over the past year, although Japan, Vietnam and other nearby Asian nations remained steady picks, according to a travel fare website. Skyscanner analyzed Internet searches on travel destinations from October last year to September this year and found [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Tourists visiting Seoul are buying more fashion products than last year, according to a recent survey. The Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Seoul Tourism Organization announced on Sunday that compared to last year, tourists in Seoul purchased fewer cosmetics and more fashion products. Querying 1,500 tourists who visited South [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A Chinese-based agency is selling tour programs to spend Christmas Day in North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang. According to the website of Young Pioneer Tours, a three-day tour to Pyongyang sells for 475 pounds (US$608) and a four-day program, which also includes tours to the border city of Kaesong and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — One of the world’s largest surfing parks will open in Sihwa MTV (Multi-techno Valley), Gyeonggi Province, by the end of 2020. Lee Jae-myung, Governor of Gyeonggi Province; Lim Byeong-taek, head of Korea Water Resources Corp. (K-water); and Choi Sam-seop, President of Daewon Plus Construction signed a memorandum of understanding [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of foreigners who visited South Korea rose 31.1 percent in October from a year earlier mainly due to a base effect after visits by Chinese nationals plunged in 2017, the local tourism promotion agency said Thursday. A total of 1.53 million foreigners visited South Korea last month, [...]