JEJU, Nov.18 (Korea Bizwire) – Bringing instant food to school will be banned in all regions of Jeju Island starting next year, and a smartphone ban will be implemented in 2017. The Jeju Education Office is taking extreme measures to lower the obesity rate of students, which is the highest in the nation, and improve [...]
SUWON, Nov.12 (Korea Bizwire) – Chinese tourists are increasingly exploring destinations in Korea other than Seoul and Jeju. There has also been a change in their travel patterns, with a shift from ‘just passing by’ to ‘staying for more than a day’ excursions. As a result, local governments are taking measures to attract Chinese visitors. [...]
JEJU, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The Jeju Tourism Organization’s duty free stores for locals reported sales of 47 billion won so far this year, which is an all-time high. It topped the previous record, which was 42.2 billion won in 2011, by 11.4 percent. Officials said that the increase in local tourists that visited [...]
JEJU, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Products from Jeju are becoming popular with vendors located in train stations. Jeju officials announced that they have sold products worth a total of 80 million won since the island’s government entered into an agreement with the Korea Railroad Corporation (KORAIL) on May 5, and distributed goods to 200 stores in [...]
JEJU, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Jeju has set a concrete roadmap to be world’s first electric vehicle (EV)-only island by 2030 with the announcement of a long-term comprehensive plan. The island off the southern tip of the Korean peninsula is seeking to become carbon-free by 2030, and to achieve this vision, it will replace all of [...]
JEJU, August 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Halla Eco-Forest, the once native grassland that was reconstructed as a forest, is establishing itself as a popular summer vacation spot, even beating well-known beaches as the best vacationers’ choice. The forest stands 600 meters above sea level and temperatures are usually about five degrees lower — in the [...]
JEJU, August 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Tourists from the Islamic world who visit Jeju Island are inconvenienced by a lack of halal restaurants and proper prayer facilities. Aside from those two factors, most Muslim visitors turned out to have enjoyed their visit to Jeju. According to a survey conducted on 405 Muslim visitors that visited Jeju, [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Wealthy Chinese investors are eyeing real estate markets in Japan and Korea. According to the China Daily, big Chinese players are shifting their investment targets from Australia and the United States to Japan and Korea. Jeju Island in Korea and big cities in Japan like Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya are [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Riding the tourism boom on Jeju, more than 1 percent of the island’s land has been sold to foreigners or foreign corporations. According to the Jeju provincial government, as of June, 2015, a total of 20.78㎢ of land or 1.12 percent of the island’s total area was owned by [...]
Jeju, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A new Provincial Park has opened on Jeju Island, where visitors can familiarize themselves with Jeju Gotjawal, also known as ‘the lungs of Jeju’. ‘Gotjawal’ is a word from the local Korean dialect of Jeju, with the two words ‘Got’, meaning ‘forest’ and ‘Jawal’ meaning ‘bushes’, joined together. It [...]