SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Gyeongbok Palace, a royal palace in Seoul, will offer a special guided tour of its marquee pavilion overlooking a beautiful pond, starting next month, cultural authorities said Tuesday. The Cultural Heritage Administration’s department that preserves and manages royal palaces and tombs said the guided tour of Gyeonghoeru inside the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A tour program to the inter-Korean border village of Panmunjom will resume early next month after more than a year of suspension caused by the African swine fever, the unification ministry said Monday. The reopening comes as there have been no recent reports of the animal disease in Paju, [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A tour program to North Korea’s scenic Mount Kumgang will kick off later this month, a North Korean propaganda outlet said, as the impoverished country seeks to expand its tourism industry in the face of global sanctions crippling its economy. DPRK Today said in an article on Sunday that [...]
DAEGU, Mar. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Daegu is coming up with various tourist programs that combine sports and other special events to attract Chinese tourists. The city said that 350 Chinese tourists will be coming to Daegu to watch the AFC Champions League match between Daegu FC and Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao FC [...]
SEOUL/BEIJING, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Ctrip, a leading travel agency in China, has deleted tour programs to South Korea, its website showed Thursday, in what could be a sign of a lingering row between the two neighbors over a U.S. missile defense system. The deletion came just hours after the company restarted online marketing [...]
BEIJING, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — China lifted a ban on the online sale of group tour programs to South Korea on Wednesday imposed in retaliation for the deployment of an advanced U.S. missile defense system on the peninsula. Ctrip, a leading travel agency in China, decided to restart the online marketing of related products [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul-based tour company is planning to sell North Korea travel packages to foreigners staying in South Korea. Sunwoo Airlines Travel Agency Co. said Friday that it has secured an exclusive proxy contract with Pyongyang on the sale of North Korea tour packages to foreigners living in South Korea [...]