Jeju, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) – A Jeju-based company has had its health product certified as Halal approved for the first time on the island. Jeju Magma Bio-energy, a company specializing in volcanic powder health products, applied for Halal certification for its magma health bracelet with the Jeju Islam Culture Center and Kakyo, a Jeju-based [...]
SEJONG, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s duty-free shop sales surged 21.6 percent on-year in 2014, the finance ministry said Tuesday, thanks to the steady rise in foreign travelers. Data sent by the ministry to the National Assembly showed sales by the 43 duty-free shops in the country hitting 8.3 trillion won (US$7.5 billion) last [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Almost one out of two Chinese tourists to South Korea visited the southern resort island of Jeju in 2014 thanks to the accommodative visa policy and expansion of direct flights and cheap cruise packages, the state tourism agency said Tuesday. A total of 6.12 million Chinese traveled to South Korea [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The 2015 Jeju Fire Festival, a popular festival in which farmland is burned to kill weeds, wrapped up on March 8, after four days and 63 programs that were designed to demonstrate Jeju’s traditional pastoral culture. The grand burning, called ‘banggae,’ is a traditional agricultural and pastoral custom in Jeju. [...]
SEOGUIPO, Mar. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The second International Electric Vehicle Expo (IEVE) kicked off Friday on Jeju Island for a 10-day run, attracting automakers and experts from around the world. “We will see to it that this year will mark the start of the commercialization of electric cars on Jeju Island… and by the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Hotel Lotte won the operational right for a downtown duty-free shop in Jeju, officials said Friday, a move that is anticipated to bolster the company’s footing against its rival in the South Korean resort island’s ballooning duty-free market. Hotel Lotte, among the three applicants including smaller rival Hotel Shilla and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean duty-free retailers Hotel Lotte and Hotel Shilla are competing again to open more stores, this time on the country’s southern island of Jeju, which has become a business hotspot teeming with Chinese tourists who have proven to be zealous shoppers. The two duty-free giants, in addition to local builder [...]
JEJU, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Discarded entrance tickets, flight tickets and specialty snack packages are selling as souvenirs, recalling memories of trips to Jeju. A cultural group in Jeju is holding an experimental event, selling garbage discarded by visitors as souvenirs to raise funds to help establish a local library. Place What?, a Jeju-based [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of individuals returning to Jeju to take up farming is skyrocketing due to a lack of jobs in urban areas, the retirement of baby boomers, and other social factors, including people’s longing for pastoral lives. According to the Jeju Self-Governing Provincial Office, the number of individuals starting up [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Jeju city recently held a Tamna Ipchun festival, a traditional celebration to celebrate the first arrival of spring, and wish for good fortune for the rest of the year, at Jeju Mokgwana, a historic Joseon Dynasty government office site in Jeju.The festival included a gut, a ritual performed by Korean shamans, [...]