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No. of Koreans traveling to China continues to drop amid THAAD row: data
By YonhapPublished : Sept. 1, 2017 - 16:19
The number of South Koreans traveling to China continued to drop in August, with more people opting to fly to Japan or Southeast Asia instead, industry data showed Friday, as the ongoing diplomatic spat between Seoul and Beijing over the deployment of a US missile defense system does not show signs of letting up.
According to the data by Hana Tour, the country's No. 1 travel agency, 320,000 people took overseas trips through its tours offered last month, up 13 percent from the previous year.
Of the total, those who traveled to China plunged 36.7 percent compared with the same period last month, while outbound visitors to Japan and Southeast Asian countries surged 25.1 percent and 30.2 percent on-year, respectively.
The number of locals going to China via Hana Tour in July was also down a sharp 46.5 percent from the same period last year.
The South Korea-China relationship has been frayed in recent months over Seoul's deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery on its soil. Beijing has taken a series of economic measures in an apparent sign of retaliation, including a ban on selling Korea-bound package tours since mid-March.
Mode Tour, another leading travel agency here, also said the number of China-bound travelers dropped 30.9 percent in August from the same month a year earlier. Sales of its overseas tour packages, meanwhile, climbed 15 percent on-year to 172,000. (Yonhap)
