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[Travel Bits] Festivals, sights across Korea

Nov 6, 2020

Seoul Lantern Festival The 2020 Seoul Lantern Festival is being held across the city of Seoul this year in an aim to disperse visitors and promote local businesses hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Whi...
Korea’s first panda cub named Fu Bao

Nov 4, 2020

The first panda cub born in South Korea has been named Fu Bao 100 days after her birth, according to Everland, a theme park under Samsung C&T, Wednesday. The female panda cub was born July 20 at Eve...
[Travel Bits] Festivals, sights across Korea

Oct 30, 2020

Seoul International Cafe Show The 2020 Seoul Cafe Show will take place Nov. 4-7 at the Coex Convention and Exhibition Center in southern Seoul. The annual event was launched in 2002 to promote the ...
[Photo News] White clouds painted across clear, sunny sky in Gangneung

Oct 24, 2020

The sunny sky has a bright blue hue in Gangneung, Gangwon Province, near the East Sea on Thursday morning. White clouds are painted across the morning sky as the contrasting colors of the silver gra...
[Photo News] Pathways at Joseon royal tombs reopen to public

Oct 24, 2020

The Cultural Heritage Administration Royal Palaces and Tombs Center said it will open five more forest trails at Joseon royal tomb sites from Friday. Paths have been opened up at Uireung in Seoul an...
[Travel Bits] Festivals, sights across Korea

Oct 23, 2020

Autumn forest at Everland Everland’s Forest Camp is offering eco-friendly programs for visitors this fall. Forest Camp is a park spread across 90,000 square meters of land, managed by amusement par...
Culture Ministry to lend additional W40b to tourism industry

Oct 21, 2020

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced Wednesday that it would inject an additional 40 billion won ($35.2 million) into South Korea’s tourism industry in the form of loans in the next ...
Camping in the age of COVID-19

Oct 17, 2020

For more information, call the Jakcheonjeong Moonlight Campsite at (052) 264-0501. By Im Eun-byel ( silverstar@heraldcorp.com )
[Travel Bits] Festivals, sights across Korea

Oct 16, 2020

Busan Fireworks Festival The 16th Busan Fireworks Festival will take place on Nov. 7. Organized by the Busan Culture & Tourism Festival Organizing Committee, the annual festival is held every autum...
First five-star hotel of global brand to be built in Gyeonggi Province

Oct 15, 2020

Gyeonggi Province, which surrounds Seoul, will get its first five-star hotel with a global brand in Pyeongtaek by 2022, the city government announced on Thursday. According to the municipality of Py...
[Eye Plus] Incheon Airport still battling COVID-19

Sept 26, 2020

Will we ever be able to feel the excitement and joy that we had at airports before the COVID-19 outbreak? After eight months of border shutdowns, the Incheon International Airport, one of the larges...
South Korea to resume flights with Vietnam, Russia

Sept 24, 2020

South Korea said Thursday it has agreed with Vietnam and Russia to resume flights following months of suspension over the new coronavirus outbreak. Flights linking Incheon, west of Seoul, with Vietn...
[Eye Plus] Walking from Seoul's first park to northern city gate that overlooks Seoul

Sept 19, 2020

Sitting on the lower slopes of Bukaksan is Samcheong Park. Samcheong Park is the first officially designated park in Seoul, and still among the more popular areas for a stroll in the Samcheong-dong ...
120 Taiwanese tourists to experience Korea from high above

Sept 14, 2020

Taiwanese travelers are to board a flight that will take off to Jeju Island -- before landing right where it started. The Korea Tourism Organization‘s Taipei office, Taiwanese travel agency Ezfly an...
[Eye Plus] Hongjecheon: Seoul stream that courses through history

Sept 12, 2020

Of the many streams that weave through the crowded city of Seoul, Hongjecheon one of the first tributaries of the Han River, passes many historic monuments. The 13.92-kilometer stream starts in the ...