SEOUL, Korea – South Korea’s tourism surplus through the first 10 months of 2014 has already set an all-time high compared with totals from previous years, data showed Sunday, on the back of the rising number of Chinese visitors.
The country’s tourism surplus came to US$14.7 billion in the January-October period, surpassing the previous record of $14.1 billion posted for the whole of last year, the data compiled jointly by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism and the Korea Culture and Tourism Institute showed.
