JEJU, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Golf courses on Jeju Island, South Korea, which thrived during the Covid-19 pandemic, are now grappling with a significant decrease in the number of visitors, according to data released by the Jeju Provincial Government on April 16. After surpassing the 2 million mark in 2019 with 2.09 million visitors, Jeju’s [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The BMW Ladies Championship, the lone LPGA Tour event in South Korea, will be played on the same course on the northwestern outskirts of Seoul for the second straight year this fall, the tournament’s organizers announced Tuesday. BMW Korea said the 72-hole tournament will be back at Seowon Hills [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean golf legend Pak Se-ri will team up with a global investment firm to host a newly named tournament on the LPGA Tour, officials have announced. The LPGA Tour announced Tuesday (U.S. time) that Pak and the Silicon Valley-based investment company Fir Hills will stage the Fir Hills [...]
PAJU, South Korea, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Shin Ji-yai has been playing golf for so long that when she first became the world No. 1 in women’s golf in 2010, many of the top South Korean players today were still in school and years away from turning professional. Ranked 16th in the world while [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of the park golf courses built along waterways such as the Nakdong River and the Han River have been found to be illegal. Park golf is gaining popularity as a sport among the aging population, but it is also becoming a social problem due to its negative [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Municipal governments across the country are scrambling to build park golf courses due to their attractive features as both sports facilities and tourism infrastructure. According to data from the Korea Park Golf Association, the number of park golf courses across the country jumped from 226 in 2019 to 361 [...]
JEJU, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of visitors to golf courses on the southern resort island of Jeju is declining as overseas flights have resumed and golfers look abroad, data showed Tuesday. According to data from Jeju’s provincial government, the number of visitors to the island’s 32 golf courses stood at 253,453 in [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — As international flight routes begin to reopen, demand for golf trips is on the rise. Kyowon Tour Co.’s travel brand Travel Easy reported that last year’s reservation rate for oversea golf trips increased during all four annual quarters. In the second annual quarter, the reservation rate jumped by 47 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — As South Korea’s golf course industry continues to expand, it is nearing the size of Japan’s, data showed Thursday. The Korea Leisure Industry Research Institute reported that the size of last year’s golf course industry in South Korea reached 8.5 trillion won (US$6.54 billion), including caddy fees. The country’s [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans in their 20s and 30s are turning from golf to hiking amid high inflation. Growth of outdoor gear revenue generated by those young people has outpaced the growth of golf revenue since September, according to industry sources. For Hyundai Department Store, the golf revenue generated by those [...]