PAJU, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Since its opening a little more than three years ago, the Camp Greaves DMZ Experience Center has slowly but surely become a pit stop for tourists visiting the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea. The Gyeonggi Tourism Organization and Paju City revealed that 23,116 tourists visited Camp Greaves [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of foreigners visiting Korea for plastic surgery and skin care amounts to 100 thousand a year. The total medical expenses spent by foreigners last year were 270 billion won, accounting for more than 30% of all medical expenses spent by foreigners in Korea. According to statistics that ruling [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreigners other than Chinese visiting South Korea grew in the first seven months of this year following the government’s efforts to diversify its tourist portfolio in the face of a sharp drop in the number of Chinese visitors, the country’s tourism promotion agency said Tuesday. According [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s tourism industry has been hit hard by a diplomatic row with China over the deployment of a U.S. missile shield here that has sent the number of Chinese visitors tumbling, a report said Friday. In mid-March, China banned the sale of group tours to Seoul in retaliation [...]