JEJU, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Demand for Jeju Island seafood and the region’s tourism market is expected to fall drastically once the Japanese government releases radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean in April next year, a poll showed Tuesday. The Jeju Research Institute conducted a nationwide survey of [...]
JEJU, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Scores of relics of imperial Japan, which occupied the Korean Peninsula from 1910-1945, still remain scattered here and there on Jeju Island. According to an investigation by the Jeju History and Culture Promotion Agency, a total of 176 stone markers engraved with the Japanese name of the era still [...]
JEJU, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Hikers will be able to enjoy next year’s first sunrise from the top of the 1,950-meter Mount Halla on South Korea’s largest island of Jeju. The Jeju Provincial Government said Monday it will allow mountain climbing during the night on the first day of 2023, which had been aborted for [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Jeju Special Self-Governing Province Office plans to ensure the unimpeded passage of fire engines at all of its intersections with traffic lights. The autonomous police force on South Korea’s largest island of Jeju announced on Wednesday that it will expand the installation of emergency vehicle-prioritizing traffic signal systems for [...]
JEJU, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Jeju Provincial Government and the Jeju Tourism Organization said Wednesday that they completed a unique tour program designed to promote barrier-free tourism from Nov. 3-5. The tour program, which was conducted in collaboration with the Korea Association of the Deaf, welcomed 19 hearing-impaired people and their families residing [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A new service introduced on Thursday will provide transportation between Jeju International Airport, tourist hotspots and hotels with self-driving vehicles. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced that it will introduce an autonomous driving car mobility service on coastal roads on the island and in the Jungmun Tourist Complex. The [...]
JEJU, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The southern resort island of Jeju saw sales of its tourism industry expand more than 32 percent last year from the previous year nearly to pre-pandemic levels, officials said Tuesday. Combined sales of the island’s tourism industry came to an estimated 6.34 trillion won (US$4.43 billion) in 2021, up [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of visitors to South Korea’s southern resort island of Jeju has topped 10 million so far this year, recovering from a slump caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, data showed Thursday. The number of travelers, including those coming from overseas, to Jeju, one of the most favored travel [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — An urban air mobility (UAM) consortium led by SK Telecom Co. and Hanwha Systems Co. said Wednesday it has partnered with the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province to launch an air taxi pilot program on South Korea’s southern resort island. The K-UAM Dream Team Consortium, comprising the two companies and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s southern resort island of Jeju will adopt an e-travel authorization system for foreign arrivals from visa-free nations starting next month, officials said Friday. The plan to introduce the Korea Electronic Travel Authorization (K-ETA) came after hundreds of Thai tourists who recently entered Jeju for tourism disappeared or [...]