Koreas' Tourism Talks End Without Agreement
The inter-Korean working-level talks on two joint-tourism projects ended Monday with no significant progress made as the North refused to agree to Seoul's long-standing demands.
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Chinese Tourism To Korea
By Do Je-hae, Kwon Mee-yoo
Korea has high hopes for hosting Chinese travelers, who are increasing in number worldwide and getting bolder with their overseas spending. By 2020, Korea wants to host 10 million Chinese tourists.
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Korean Tourism Talks
SEOUL — North and South Korea will hold talks next week about resuming tourism projects in the communist state if Seoul's conditions for the meeting are met, officials said Wednesday.
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Koreas' Tourism Talks
South Korea’s unification minister sent a message yesterday to his North Korean counterpart proposing a new date and venue for negotiations on resuming stalled tourism programs that allowed locals t
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Korea's Health Tourism
Korea’s state tourism agency said yesterday that it is aiming to attract 70,000 health tourists this year, more than double the number from 2009.
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Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co.
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., South Korea's third-largest shipyard, is set to win its first order to build a cruise ship, industry sources said Tuesday.
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Korea
By Na Jeong-ju
Korea will introduce insurance for foreign tourists next year to help cover their medical bills in the event they have accidents here.
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South Korea
By Park Tae-hee
A 45-year-old businessman who operates a mid-size travel agency said he has become extremely stressed whenever he thinks about what he should do next year about the price of tour packages.
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Korean Tourism
The number of foreign tourists that visited Korea is expected to approach 8 million this year, the country’s tourism board said yesterday.
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Airbus A380 First Flight
By eTN Staff Writer
Emirates, the award-winning international airline, celebrated the A380’s first flight to North East Asia with its arrival at Incheon International Airport in Seoul last week.
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Powered By Liquefied Petroleum Injection
By eTN Staff Writer
The newly-introduced hybrid taxi in Seoul is a hybrid vehicle powered by a Liquefied Petroleum Injection (LPI) engine that was first developed in Korea.
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Mount Kumgang Tourism
Seoul - South Korea on Monday rebuffed an offer by North Korea to revive a lucrative tourism project.
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South Korea
The government is pursuing a visa waiver program with China for tourists staying for up to 30 days, as part of a campaign to boost the local tourism industry.
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Mount Kumgang Tourism
North Korea has proposed that the two Koreas hold talks on a visit to the Mount Kumgang resort by South Korean officials to probe the shooting death of a South Korean tourist there, an informed source
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Korea
Natsumi Ishikawa, 25, visited Korea on a three-day trip from Saturday to Monday.
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South Korea
Korea plans to spend 10.2 trillion won ($8.8 billion) by 2020 to develop a “world-class tourism industry hub” on a vast reclaimed tidal flat south of the capital, the government said yesterday.
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Korea
Chief executive officers of major air carriers around the world will gather in Incheon for a meeting next week, Korean Air said yesterday.
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"Visit Korea Year"
An ambitious state campaign to attract more than 10 million tourists to Korea will be the main focus of the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) next year, KTO chief Lee Charm said, ahead of the campaign'
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Korea Welcomes Returning Japanese Tourists
Japanese tourists are returning to South Korea as worries ease over the spread of the influenza A (H1N1) virus.
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South Korea
SEOUL — South Korea is considering changing its official tourism slogan "Korea, Sparkling" because it sounds too much like a fizzy drink brand, according to the man in charge of promoting the nation
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