SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Economy and Finance on Tuesday announced plans to promote tourism to foreigners as part of its economic policy for the latter half of the year. As part of the program, 700 round-trip flight tickets will be distributed both online and offline to attract more foreigners to [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — As social distancing policies have ended in South Korea, the number of foreign tourists visiting the country has been on the rise. And Depending on their nationality, these tourists tend to purchase different products during their stay. The Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry conducted a survey of 400 [...]
JEJU, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreign tourists visiting Jeju Island has increased significantly as restrictions on overseas travel due to COVID-19 have been lifted. 88,875 foreign tourists visited the island from January to April 23 this year, which is 6.8 times more than the 13,154 tourists who visited during the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean hotels are accommodating more foreigners following the government’s lifting of restrictions on tourists arriving from abroad. At 86 percent, the vast majority of all guests at RYSE, Autograph Collection, located in Hongdae, a popular entertainment district in western Seoul, were foreign tourists in the third quarter of this [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreign tourists who visited South Korea last year is expected to have fallen below the 1 million mark due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic. The data from the state-run Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) showed 877,000 foreigners visited the country from January to November, down 64.3 percent [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Fewer than 10,000 foreign tourists visited South Korea a month last year after the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, official data showed Monday. According to the state-run Korea Tourism Organization (KTO), the average number of foreign travelers here was only 9,722 per month from April to December last year, [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign tourists to South Korea stayed shorter and spent less money in 2019 than the previous year, a government survey showed Tuesday. International tourists stayed an average 6.7 days in South Korea last year, down 0.5 from the previous year, according to the survey of 16,000 tourist arrivals taken [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreign arrivals in South Korea nose-dived nearly 95 percent last month due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, government data showed Saturday. According to the data by the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO), 83,497 foreign people visited South Korea in March, down 94.6 percent from the same period [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s annual winter shopping festival for foreign tourists kicked off its 45-day run on Thursday. Korea Grand Sale 2020 will run until Feb. 29, offering foreign visitors discounts at some 1,100 retailers and service providers across the country, a record high number. Along major tourist routes across South [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Tada, a South Korean ride-hailing service operator, will launch a ride hailing service for foreign tourists. Tada said Thursday it has carried out an app update to make it easier and more comfortable for more users to use its service. In the latest version of the app, users can [...]