SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans’ overseas card spending continued to grow in the third quarter as outbound travel spiked bolstered by eased pandemic curbs, central bank data showed Tuesday. The amount of money spent overseas by South Koreans with cards, including credit and debit cards, came to US$3.81 billion in the July-September [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are flocking to airlines and tour agencies as the Japanese government once again began to accept the entry of Korean travelers without visas on Tuesday. South Korean budget carrier Jeju Air’s reservation rate for flights between Incheon and Narita jumped to 90 percent in October, spiking from [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Demand for travel packages to Japan is rising following the announcement that restrictions on entering the country would be dropped. South Korean tour agency Hana Tour reported a 413.9 percent increase in the average daily number of travel reservations to Japan between Aug. 29 and Sept. 4 compared to the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Travelers from Japan, Taiwan and Macau will be temporarily allowed to enter South Korea without a visa this month, Seoul city said Wednesday. The city has pushed for the visa waiver program in consultation with the culture, justice and foreign ministries, and the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean travelers to Southeast Asia prefer staying in pool villas and those traveling to European countries prefer staying at guesthouses, a poll showed Thursday. The operator of ticket booking platform Yeogi Eottae conducted a survey of 469 app users, 30.2 percent of whom preferred to stay in pool [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — After COVID-19 social distancing rules were lifted, South Korea’s major online travel and accommodation platforms have seen payments break records month after month. Industry tracker WiseApp conducted a survey of Korean consumers over 20 years of age to check the value of payments they had made at online travel [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will add an additional 230 international flights by next month to meet growing demand for travel in the wake of an easing of COVID-19 restrictions, Interior Minister Lee Sang-min said Friday. The addition will raise the number of weekly international flights from 532 in May to 762 [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Travel agencies are frustrated over low reservation rates despite soaring demand for foreign travel, and they are blaming their difficulties on what they say are excessive measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 in South Korea. Currently, foreign travel requires a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test prior to departure, [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — About a half of foreigners have the intention to travel to South Korea within the next three years, a survey showed Tuesday. The Korea Tourism Organization conducted a survey twice last year of about 30,000 foreigners over 15 years of age residing in 21 countries. Among them, 19.4 percent [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — As flight travel is making a comeback, more people are choosing to fly longer distances rather than visiting close, neighboring countries for travel. Major online shopping malls Gmarket and Auction studied big data related to overseas travel package sales in the last 30 days (March 11 to April 10), [...]