POHANG, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A trial operation of an international cruise ship was launched on the route connecting Pohang in the South Korea’s southeastern city with Japan and Taiwan. The Costa Serena, a 114,500-ton cruise ship, on Monday departed from Youngil Bay in Pohang, carrying some 3,000 tourists bound for Okinawa in Japan. [...]
INCHEON, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A cruise ship from overseas will enter Incheon Port for the first time in three years and five months following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a South Korean port operator said Sunday. The Incheon Port Authority announced that Hapag-Lloyd Cruises’ MS Europa 2 will enter Incheon Port’s Cruise [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will bar foreigners to be released from a quarantined cruise ship off Japan from entering the country, a senior Seoul official said Wednesday, as Japanese authorities are scheduled to end the vessel’s quarantine over the coronavirus. In a press briefing, Noh Hong-in, an official of the central [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean presidential plane with six nationals and a Japanese spouse onboard arrived back from Japan on Wednesday, completing the mission to evacuate them from a coronavirus-hit cruise ship. The Air Force VCN-235 arrived at Gimpo International Airport in western Seoul at 6:27 a.m. after departing from Tokyo’s [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. has supplied ultra-large smart LED displays to global cruise operator MSC Cruises for the new ship MSC Grandiosa. The Grandiosa, which began operations in Italy last month, is the world’s sixth-largest cruise ship and can accommodate up to 6,334 people. Samsung installed curved LED displays with [...]
JEJU, Mar. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Queen Mary 2, a luxury cruise ship carrying 2,400 passengers, will be docking at Jeju Naval Base on March 2. Many are curious as to how passengers, many of whom are Americans and Europeans, would be able to access a South Korean naval base. The base, built in [...]
INCHON, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The cruise ship ‘Quantum of the Seas’, affiliated with Royal Caribbean Cruises, the world’s No.1 cruise company, entered Incheon’s new harbor today. The ship, which entered Korean waters for the first time, is the largest cruise ship ever to visit Korea. The Quantum cruise is called a ‘hotel on [...]