INCHEON, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – This year’s Korean Lunar New Year falls on January 28. Although the official holiday begins on Friday for a four-day weekend until Monday next week, Incheon International Airport, South Korea’s main air travel hub, is already booming with departing travelers. The airport expects roughly 416,700 individuals to depart from [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Small but fully equipped and furnished rooms will begin accommodating passengers at South Korea’s Incheon International Airport, providing a private and comfortable place to rest at the bustling airport, the transportation ministry said Friday. The new capsule hotel opened Friday with 30 container-size rooms on each side of the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – International air cargo shipped to and from South Korea via its Incheon International Airport climbed to a new annual high in 2016, despite a significant drop in the country’s overall imports and exports, the government said Tuesday. The amount of international cargo processed at the Incheon airport, the main [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Here’s good news for travelers flying through South Korea. Walkerhill Hotel announced Tuesday that it is opening Korea’s first “capsule hotel” on January 20 at Incheon International Airport – the nation’s hub for air travel. Dubbed “Darak Hyu”, the hotel should be of interest to the airport’s transfer passengers, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Incheon International Airport Corp. (IIAC) kicked off a clothes-sharing service, dubbed “Seinustar,” at the passenger terminal of Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, on Thursday, an IIAC official there said. The service is designed to rent garments to foreigners visiting South Korea to help them travel easier with lighter [...]
INCHEON, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Convenience food, packaged Korean cuisine, is rapidly gaining popularity among foreigners, with an increasing number of travelers purchasing the products at Korean airports before departure. Food and restaurant services company Our Home started offering Korean convenience food at its Food Empire outlets at Incheon International Airport this year. Food [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – This year’s Chuseok holiday, which began on September 14, has finally ended, and Koreans are returning to their workplaces. The holiday began with tension following a historic 5.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Gyeongju last Monday, and ended with typhoons Meranti and Malakas affecting the peninsula with heavy rain starting on Saturday. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s leading airline, Korean Air, set a new record for daily production of inflight meals on July 30. According to the airline, the company produced meals for 84,936 passengers on Saturday, breaking the previous record of 80,332 set just a few days earlier on July 27. Meal production has [...]
INCHEON, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Since 2015, KT&G (Korea Tobacco & Ginseng Corporation) has been able to maintain a winning streak in duty free store sales at Incheon International Airport. According to airport data, KT&G product sales at Korea’s leading airport came to 103.1 billion won ($92.7 million) and 71.8 billion won, respectively, in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – A consortium led by U.S. casino operator Mohegan Sun on Monday signed a land lease agreement with Incheon International Airport Corporation to build an integrated resort on Yeongjong Island by 2020. Inspire Integrated Resort, a consortium by Mohegan Sun and South Korean chemical maker KCC Group, signed the agreement [...]