JEJU, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The southern island of Jeju is moving to resume its visa waiver program for international travelers, which has been suspended for the past two years during the pandemic, officials said Wednesday. Jeju Province officials have recently visited the culture, land and justice ministries and requested they discuss the reinstatement [...]
JEJU, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A local court on Tuesday ruled against the Jeju provincial government’s decision years ago to ban a for-profit hospital from treating domestic patients. The Jeju District Court said it is against the law for the Jeju government to permit the opening of the nation’s first for-profit hospital, called Greenland [...]
SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) — President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol paid tribute to victims of a civilian massacre on the southern island of Jeju on Sunday, saying he will be committed to restoring dignity to them and their surviving families. Yoon attended the memorial commemorating the victims of a 1948 massacre in Jeju. The occasion marked [...]
JEJU, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The nation’s first blooming cherry blossoms this spring were observed on the southern island of Jeju on Friday, local weather agency said. The flowering came on the same day as the average year but eight days later than last year’s March 17, due to relatively low temperatures this month, [...]
JEJU, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The government of Jeju Special Self-Governing Province said Wednesday it will launch the full-scale operation of a new shared logistics platform called ‘modang.’ The provincial government decided to establish the shared platform as a way to address the disadvantages local residents and companies face due to the province’s geographical [...]
JEJU, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 200,000 people are expected to travel to Jeju Island during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday despite growing concerns over the spread of the omicron coronavirus variant, according to travel industry officials Tuesday. According to the Jeju Tourism Association, the number of visitors to the resort island [...]
JEJU, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The provincial government of Jeju said Friday it will push to raise the minimum investment required of foreigners under its real-estate investment immigration policy to 1.5 billion won. Under the current property investment immigration system, foreigners who invest 500 million won (about US$419,000) or more in condominiums or other [...]
Jeju, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — llegal transactions of QR codes given out free of charge by Jeju provincial government for making reservations for tourist programs on Mount Halla, the southern island’s iconic volcanic peak, have brought the provincial government to take legal action, only to find out there is nothing it can do at [...]
JEJU, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeju Island’s Seongsan Ilchulbong (Sunrise) Peak, a UNESCO World Heritage site and the southern resort island’s famous geographical features, was the most visited place on Jeju among tourists traveling by car last year. Big data analysis firm TDI studied big data from driving navigation platform T-map and the Jeju [...]
JEJU, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The tourism industry in South Korea’s southern island of Jeju, maligned by the COVID-19 pandemic, is being bolstered by sports teams visiting the island for off-season training. Jeju is more suitable for winter training thanks to its warm weather and advanced facilities. In January, some 2,400 members of 76 [...]