SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of Chinese tourists in South Korea declined nearly 70 percent on-year last month, marking a drop for five straight months following China’s ban on sales of Korea-bound trips amid a diplomatic row over the deployment of a U.S. anti-missile system here, government data showed Tuesday. The tally [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The latest analysis by Pengtai, Cheil Worldwide’s digital marketing affiliate, has revealed that Chinese tourists visiting South Korea are becoming more attracted to the daily lives of locals instead of shopping or K-food quests. According to the analysis, which was based on some 660,000 search data on the urban [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Tuesday that it is creating 200 jobs exclusively for Chinese-speaking travel interpreters, with China’s travel ban to South Korea still in effect. According to city officials, the application process will run from May 31 until June 15, and the new recruits will serve as [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Dozens of foreigners gathered in Seoul on Friday for a special venue designed by the state tourism agency to bolster the country’s sagging tourism sector, as the country is grappling with a steep fall in Chinese visitors. Nearly 70 travel agency officials from Japan, Singapore, Vietnam, Hong Kong and [...]
JEJU, South Korea, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) – A local appellate court on Wednesday sentenced a 51-year-old Chinese man to 30 years in prison for murdering an unrelated South Korean woman who was praying at a church on the country’s southern resort island of Jeju last year. Chen Guorui attacked the 61-year-old woman, identified only [...]
JEJU ISLAND, South Korea, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s southern resort island of Jeju is seeking to attract more domestic tourists to offset a sharp decrease in Chinese visitors amid political tensions over the deployment of a U.S. missile shield, industry data showed Sunday. The scenic island had been popular among Chinese tourists [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Struggling to cope with a sharp drop in Chinese visitors, local tourism organizations have stepped up efforts to release novel tour programs to woo Japanese and Southeast Asian visitors, government and industry sources said Friday. The South Korea tourism and hospitality sectors have been hit by the dearth in [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The tourism industry on South Korea’s resort island of Jeju remained relatively sound in March, despite worries about a serious economic setback from China’s travel package ban to its neighbor amid a diplomatic standoff, industry sources said Wednesday. The number of tourists who came to Jeju Island was 1.25 [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Chinese travelers’ preference for South Korea plunged over the past year, a survey showed Tuesday, apparently from the tension between the two countries over the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system. A poll by Ctrip, a leading online travel services agency in China, ranked South Korea 16th in [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is keeping a close watch on China’s next moves that may work to further hurt its industries, as Beijing’s travel ban to its neighboring country came into effect Wednesday, the latest hostile measure taken in protest of Seoul’s stationing of a U.S. anti-missile system. China-based travel agencies, [...]