SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) – For foreigners visiting South Korea, museums and ancient palace tours are not the most intriguing cultural experiences. Street food was top on their travel lists, a survey showed Tuesday.’ According to the online poll by the state-run Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) on 4,369 foreigners, 54.2 percent said they want to [...]
SEOUL, March.1 (Korea Bizwire) – A general support window that provides translation or consultation services to foreigners who are ill during their visit to Korea will open in the popular tourist and shopping neighborhood of Myeongdong. The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced that it will open the ‘Medical Korea Support Center’, which will provide [...]
SEOUL, Feb.24 (Korea Bizwire) – Myeongdong, one of Seoul’s most famous tourist spots and shopping districts that is visited by more than 100,000 people daily, sees 30 tons of trash every day, most of which is thrown on the ground. It has often been pointed out that the number of trash bins is completely disproportionate [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – A series of new business hotels have popped up or are set to open in Seoul to attract budget-conscious travelers, but their rapid expansion raises concerns over tighter competition and margins, industry officials said Wednesday. Local and global hotel chains have been building mid-range hotels or renovating existing facilities [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s retail and tourism industries are preparing a slew of promotional and cultural events to woo back Chinese travelers during a long-haul holiday season, pinning their hopes on making up for a summer slump in the wake of a viral respiratory illness, sources said Monday. Since the first [...]
SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Convenience store operator 7-Eleven has opened a “smart” convenience store where customers can enjoy virtual reality based on IT technologies. On the second floor of its Chinese Embassy store in Seoul’s Myeongdong, 7-Eleven placed six smart tables where customers can enjoy web surfing, gaming and watching Youtube videos in [...]
SEOUL, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean cosmetics brand Nature Republic’s Myeongdong store, famous for being located on the most expensive land in Korea, has been remodeled into a forest-like total beauty shop. The outside of the five-story building looks like a small forest, decorated with more than 50,000 pots of plants. Benches in front [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A new trend in K-pop is rising, as more and more Korean musicians are choosing to hold street showcases for their soon-to-be released songs. Min-ah from Girl’s Day unveiled her first solo album by performing at the center of Myeongdong on March 16, while JJCC, a boy group made by Jackie Chan, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean restaurant franchise ‘Mad for Garlic’ prepared a Chinese Spring Festival party for dozens of Chinese university students in Seoul, in collaboration with big data based restaurant ranking services firm Red Table, at the restaurant’s Myeongdong branch. Mad for Garlic prepared a Chinese tradition, hongbao, or red envelopes, which are monetary [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Four members of Korean boy band “Pureboy” became picketers on the streets of Myeongdong for 6 hours on December 22. They protested to see a concert of another Korean boy band, TVXQ, but only in its united form. TVXQ started out as a five-member boy band but was split into [...]