SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — ‘Alternative tourism’ is gaining popularity with South Korea reaching the third year of travel restrictions following the coronavirus outbreak. Major travel agency Interpark Tour said Monday it had released ‘Toy Story’, a unique tourist package that asks foreign customers to send dolls to ‘take the trip for them’. The [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Dolls that were seen in the hands of children of Afghan “persons of special merit” and their families when they arrived at Incheon International Airport last week are gaining media attention after they turned out to have been distributed by the South Korean Ministry of Justice to comfort them. [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Mattel Inc., the manufacturer of Barbie Dolls, introduced a new doll collection of the famous South Korean idol group BTS. Mattel released photos of the new BTS dolls on Twitter on Tuesday. Mattel has been getting BTS fans excited over the past couple days by releasing teasers of the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Whether it’s the poor economy provoking childhood nostalgia, or people looking for simple gambling fun, claw machines are back in Korea, and they are everywhere. Over the past two years, the number of claw machine arcades in the country jumped by 2,400 percent to an estimated 500 – and [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – As most people tend to have one or two children and concentrate their resources on them, the infant clothing industry is seeing revenue growth from ancillary products like dolls, bags and toys rather than clothing. Accessories for infants are said to be effective in opening the wallets of aunts, [...]