SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Kim Kyoung-il, a 24-year-old airport worker, took a day off last month to try driving a high-performance sports car at a racetrack near his workplace. He was one of six people to drive BMW’s high-performance M models at BMW Driving Center, which is adjacent to Incheon International Airport, west [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea-Vietnam relations are drawing closer than ever as tourism exchanges have soared in recent months. Vietnamese media reported on Sunday that approximately 3.16 million South Koreans have visited Vietnam this year, an increase of 46.5 percent compared to last year. The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism expected more [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Outdoor night markets featuring international foods and handicraft and cultural performances have been chosen as the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s best policy of 2018 in an online poll of foreigners here and abroad, officials said Monday. A total of 15,172 foreigners living in South Korea and 71 other countries participated [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The southwestern coastal city of Suncheon has been chosen as the South Korean city to represent the Culture City of East Asia 2020, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said Thursday. The program, which started in 2014, is aimed at promoting cultural exchanges and tourism between South Korea, [...]
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 [...]