SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of consumers are searching for swimsuits in anticipation of their first summer vacation after the pandemic. Local fashion retail platform W Concept saw its sales increased by 36 percent between May 12 and June 11 compared to the same period last year. Bikini sales experienced an [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Daecheon Beach in Boryeong, South Chungcheong Province has been the most popular beach destination in the country this summer, a data showed Sunday. T Map Mobility Co., a mobility unit under telecom operator SK Telecom Co., analyzed five types of summer vacation destinations set on its T Map mobile [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Soaring consumer prices, a resurgence in the number of COVID-19 cases being reported, and scorching weather are prompting more young South Koreans in their 20s and 30s to postpone their summer vacation. “I saved up 10 vacation days. I’m thinking of going on a trip to Europe in the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of Seoulites who took a summer vacation last year almost halved compared to the 2019 level, primarily due to the aftereffects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism conducted a survey of 1,931 Seoul citizens aged over 15 years of age, in which [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Kim Ji-young, a 29-year-old office worker in Seoul, enjoyed her second getaway vacation this year at a remote country house on the periphery of the southern agricultural city of Sangju last month. The rustic old-style farmer’s house, built with clay and wood, came with few of the amenities and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey revealed that about a half of the healthcare workers at South Korea’s clinic-level hospitals with no patient rooms have been forced to take unpaid leave or annual paid leave due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Korean Health and Medical Workers’ Union conducted a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The defense ministry decided to lift a vacation ban for enlisted service members after the government eased social distancing guidelines on the new coronavirus, officials said Monday. Since mid-August, the military authorities banned rank-and-file troops from vacationing and off-base movement, as the country saw a surge in confirmed COVID-19 [...]
CHUNCHEON, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS, worldwide K-pop superstars and creator of ‘hotspots’ where anywhere they go turns into a tourist destination, spent a week in Gangwon Province enjoying the forest at a resort home. The story of BTS’s vacation in Gangwon Province will be made into a reality television series show titled “In [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The coronavirus is changing traditional vacation policies at major companies as employees are being asked to move beyond past practices of going on vacation primarily during the summer, and are instead being encouraged to take leave at any point during the year. The new trend is mainly driven by [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The coronavirus pandemic is weighing heavily on the summer holidays as COVID-19 continues to spread across the Greater Seoul Metropolitan Area. This year, summer vacationers are opting for less populated, fresh-aired forest camping sites than beaches visited by tens of thousands of people every year. Gosan Recreational Forest, located [...]