SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Internet is heating up over a petition that was posted on the South Korean government website on January 16 calling on the government to help a young Korean man who fell off the cliffs and was severely injured during a visit to the Grand Canyon in the United [...]
WONJU, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A suspension footbridge in Wonju, 130 kilometers east of Seoul, has emerged as a national tourist destination, attracting more than 1.8 million tourists in just one year following its opening. “A total of 1,867,264 people have so far visited the bridge at Mount Sogeum since it opened in January [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Airbnb Inc. launched a campaign on Monday to call for a revision to the law to allow South Koreans to share their homes with domestic travelers in the country’s major cities, it said. Under South Korea’s Tourism Promotion Act, residents in urban areas, excluding rural communities defined by law, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The existence of the Mapo oil storage site, a maximum security facility sitting on the slopes of Mt. Maebong in Seoul, was revealed for the first time in forty years and is now being transformed into a cultural complex. The city of Seoul announced on August 24 that a [...]
POHANG, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — For the past five months, a fire has burned day and night in the heart of Pohang. Which is why the city announced on August 24 that it has begun the construction of a ring of fire-resistant glass and a platform around the fire in order to turn it [...]
CHUNCHEON, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Referred to as “Lake City” for its proximity to water, the city of Chuncheon in Gangwon Province is aiming to adopt a new moniker with its National Leisure Sports Festival to be held on August 25. Chuncheon’s road to becoming a domestic hub of leisure sports is a winding [...]
CHEONGJU, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Geopolitical tensions are having a real effect on the Korean economy as North Chungcheong Province announced on August 15 that the low-cost carrier Eastar Jet had abandoned its plans to resume flight operations from Chungcheong International Airport to five Chinese cities. Since the cooling of relations between China and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Koreans traveling to China plunged from April through June of this year amid the diplomatic row over Seoul’s decision to deploy U.S. anti-missile defense systems on its soil, tourism industry data showed Sunday. The total visitors going to China fell by 50 to 60 percent [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul metropolitan city has been staging aggressive tour promotion activities in Malaysia as its nationals have been increasingly touring the country in recent years, a city official said Thursday. The number of Malaysians who have come to South Korea has doubled over the past five years, recording 310,000 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government and Seoul Tourism Organization launched Tuesday One More Trip (www.onemoretrip.net), an integrated platform connecting tourists with some of the most unique experiences in Seoul and its nearby cities. According to officials, the new website will allow visitors to search for tourism and culture content that [...]