SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – With the 10 day-long Chuseok holiday fast approaching, the South Korean tourism industry finds itself at a critical turning point, with millions of South Koreans deciding between traveling around the country and going abroad. This year’s much anticipated Chuseok holiday, South Korea’s Thanksgiving celebration, is one of the longest in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) is set to hold a number of festivals in an all-out effort to boost the country’s tourism industry, which has been hit hard by Beijing’s economic retaliation over South Korea’s deployment of a politically-charged THAAD missile defense system. At a press conference held on Tuesday, [...]
BANGKOK, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Tourism Organization held 2017 Love Korea Weekend over the weekend in Bangkok, known as the capital of the Korean pop culture fan base in Southeast Asia. The event, which was devised to promote tourism in South Korea, saw over 150 local female Korean culture enthusiasts perform a flash [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Tourism Organization has extended an official invitation to the top three contestants in the 2017 Miss Muslim Indonesia (Puteri Muslimah Indonesia 2017). The women will arrive in Korea on August 12 and will culminate their stay on August 17. While here, they will tour attractions that are [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 100 restaurants in South Korea have been certified as Muslim-friendly this year, the state-run tourism promotion body said Monday, as the government attempts to attract more tourists from the Middle East and Southeast Asian countries. The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) said 117 new restaurants joined the government’s [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of South Koreans going overseas has increased this year, but they have cut back on spending compared with the past, the latest data showed Tuesday. Some 10.52 million people went on overseas trips between January and May this year, up 18.9 percent from the same period last [...]
CHEONGJU, Jun. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A task force of the state-run Korea Tourism Organization’s branch in Cheongju, central South Korea, said Thursday it plans to complete a project aimed at turning a plaza that is known for its flagpole from Korea’s medieval dynasty into one of the top tourist spots by creating a dazzling [...]
CHEONGJU, Jun. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — An ancient bridge, which has been covered for about a century, will be reborn in an art installation under a project to revive a traditional market, a Korea Tourism Organization task force in charge of the project, dubbed “Namseok Bridge Remind,” said Wednesday. According to most convincing academic arguments, [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The trade deficit in South Korea’s tourism industry rose to a record high for the past decade in the first quarter, due largely to a void in Chinese visitors following the ban of Korea-bound trip sales by Beijing from mid-March, industry and central bank data showed Thursday. The figure [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The government unveiled a string of measures Wednesday to help the ailing local tourism industry overcome the sharp decline in Chinese visitors in the face of a diplomatic standoff between South Korea and China over a U.S. anti-missile system. The local tourism industry is battered by Beijing’s apparent retaliation [...]