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 [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Due to coronavirus-related travel restrictions, the number of foreign arrivals in South Korea again nose-dived nearly 98 percent in May, reaching slightly over 30,000, official data showed Saturday. According to the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO), 30,861 foreigners visited South Korea in May, down 97.9 percent from the same month [...]
JEJU, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Increasing cases of infection from a new pneumonia-causing coronavirus in China has compelled the provincial government on South Korea’s largest island of Jeju to reconsider its implementation of a visa-free program for foreign visitors, including those from China, provincial officials said Wednesday. The southern resort island is a major [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea plans to launch an electronic travel authorization (ETA) system for foreign visitors next year, following the parliament’s approval of a relevant law early this week, the Ministry of Justice said Saturday. The National Assembly’s plenary session on Thursday passed a revision of the Immigration Law on the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreign visitor arrivals in South Korea is expected to reach an all-time high of 17.5 million this year, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) said Tuesday. The forecast, if realized, will exceed the previous annual record of 17.24 million [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreign tourists to N Seoul Tower, one of the most popular tourist spots in the South Korean capital, has been on a steady rise in recent months due apparently to more Chinese visitors, its operator said Monday. Foreign visitors to N Seoul Tower on Mount Nam [...]