SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of foreign visitors to the National Museum of Korea hit a record high of 94,951 in the first half of this year, museum officials said Wednesday. The figure represents a 34.5 percent increase from 70,585 a year ago and a 55.6 percent rise from pre-pandemic levels in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of foreign visitors to South Korea stayed above 1 million for the third consecutive month in September, data showed Monday. Last month, around 1.1 million foreign nationals came to Korea, up 225.2 percent from a year ago, according to the data by the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO). [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Lotte Mart, one of South Korea’s major supermarket chains, will create special shopping zones for foreign visitors at its branches frequently visited by inbound travelers, its operator said Wednesday. Last month, Lotte Mart first created a 20-meter-long special shopping zone, named “Must-Haves of Korea: K-Food,” at its Seoul Station [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreign visitors to South Korea soared more than four times in June from a year earlier to hit a new monthly high since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, data showed Friday. In June, around 961,000 foreign nationals came to Korea, up 321.9 percent on-year, according to [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreign visitors to South Korea soared almost five times last month from a year earlier, partly due to a sharp increase in travelers from Japan, data showed Thursday. In May, around 867,000 foreign nationals traveled here, up 399 percent on-year, according to the Korea Tourism Organization [...]
SUWON, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Gyeonggi Province, which surrounds Seoul, will begin a tourism promotion campaign that will offer up to a 75 percent discount to foreign nationals visiting its popular destinations, officials said Thursday. The discount program is organized by the local government and Gyeonggi Tourism Organization as the nation’s most populous province [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreign visitors to South Korea surged by nearly 140 percent last month, a public corporation said Monday, attributing the explosive growth to a COVID-19-induced base effect. In April, 70,112 foreign nationals arrived here, up 138.4 percent from a year earlier, according to the government-invested Korea Tourism [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of international visitors to South Korea plummeted by more than 70 percent during the first half of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a lawmaker Sunday. The number of inbound foreign travelers during the January-June period reached 2.14 million, marking a 74.7 percent plunge compared [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreigners who traveled to South Korea slumped 97.5 percent on-year in June, data showed Monday, highlighting the drastic impact the new coronavirus is having on the local tourism sector. The number of foreigners who visited the country came in at 36,943 in June, compared with 1.48 [...]
SEJONG, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean overseas travelers and foreign visitors slightly fell last year as fewer people entered the country, data showed Thursday. The number of international migrants, referring to those who spend 90 days or more in South Korea, stood at 1.46 million people in 2019, down 0.9 [...]