SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Tuesday that it is creating 200 jobs exclusively for Chinese-speaking travel interpreters, with China’s travel ban to South Korea still in effect. According to city officials, the application process will run from May 31 until June 15, and the new recruits will serve as [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Dozens of foreigners gathered in Seoul on Friday for a special venue designed by the state tourism agency to bolster the country’s sagging tourism sector, as the country is grappling with a steep fall in Chinese visitors. Nearly 70 travel agency officials from Japan, Singapore, Vietnam, Hong Kong and [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has seen a sharp gain this year in the student inflow from Taiwan and Hong Kong who came here on a school trip, amid a faltering tourism stemming from a steep decline in Chinese visitors, government data showed Friday. The cumulative number of student groups on school [...]
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, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and China will both be hurt economically by the fallout caused by the deployment of the advanced U.S. missile defense system on the Korean Peninsula, a local think tank said Wednesday. According to the Hyundai Research Institute (HRI), Beijing’s retaliation against Seoul’s decision to station a Terminal [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The government said Tuesday it plans to extend some 226 billion won (US$119.3 million) in loans to local tourism businesses hit by a sharp drop in Chinese visitors in the wake of Beijing’s hostile policy toward its neighbor. Tourism-related businesses here, such as travel and hospitality, are taking the [...]
JEJU ISLAND, South Korea, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s southern resort island of Jeju is seeking to attract more domestic tourists to offset a sharp decrease in Chinese visitors amid political tensions over the deployment of a U.S. missile shield, industry data showed Sunday. The scenic island had been popular among Chinese tourists [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Struggling to cope with a sharp drop in Chinese visitors, local tourism organizations have stepped up efforts to release novel tour programs to woo Japanese and Southeast Asian visitors, government and industry sources said Friday. The South Korea tourism and hospitality sectors have been hit by the dearth in [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) – A group of 500 Thai tourists is visiting Yongpyong Resort in Gangwon Province from April 13 to 15 for a special snow experience, the Korea Tourism Organization said Tuesday. According to officials, the sled experience offered by the ski resort (using not yet melted snow) is part of a [...]