SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — As a trade row between South Korea and Japan has continued for months, their tourist exchanges have taken a steep dive, hammering one of the most lucrative tourist routes in Asia. The number of Korean travelers visiting Japan nose-dived to some 205,000 in November, registering a dramatic fall of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Those taking a taxi in the Philippines should check first to see if anyone is hiding in the car, particularly in the back seat, according to the South Korean Embassy in Manila. A South Korean tourist was robbed while riding a taxi in the Malate district of Manila late [...]
SANCHEONG, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Sancheong County in southeastern South Korea, which has gained fame as the hometown of Park Hang-seo, the popular South Korean head coach of Vietnam’s national football team, will push to build a Vietnam-friendly village to attract more tourists from the Southeast Asian country, officials said Saturday. The South Gyeongsang [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — An increased demand on non-Japanese routes helped offset lower demand on Japanese routes in August amid trade tensions between Seoul and Tokyo, the transport ministry said Sunday. The number of South Koreans who traveled to Japan in August plunged more than 20 percent as outbound travelers shunned Japan for [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Recent reports have indicated that many Koreans who planned to travel to Japan cancelled their trips or changed their destination to Korea after the Japanese government imposed trade restrictions earlier this summer. According to an online survey of 1,300 people conducted by the Korea Culture and Tourism Institute, 69.3 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of Indonesian tourists to South Korea jumped nearly 15 percent in the first half of 2019 from a year earlier as the country emerged as a Muslim-friendly travel destination, Seoul’s tourism promotion agency said Sunday. Around 112,000 Indonesian tourists visited South Korea in the first six months [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean tourists visiting Japan tumbled more than 7 percent in July from a year earlier amid escalating tensions between the two neighbors over history and trade, Japanese government data showed Wednesday. A total of 561,700 South Koreans visited Japan last month, marking a 7.6 percent [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of tourist exchanges between South Korea and Vietnam are leading airlines to create new routes between the two countries. The Korea Tourism Organization and the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism reported that 2,078,000 South Koreans visited Vietnam over the first half of this year, which was [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite the anti-Japan sentiment prevalent in South Korea following Japan’s recent export restrictions, Japanese residents or visitors in South Korea feel more or less accepted in the country. Many Japanese residents or visitors in South Korea said they have no direct experience of being threatened by anti-Japanese sentiments in [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean tourists to Japan fell nearly five percent in the January-May period from a year earlier, government data showed Sunday, with travel demand to Japan expected to fall further following Japan’s export curbs. In the first five months, the number of Koreans who traveled to [...]