foreign visitors

Ask a first-time visitor to Korea what surprised them most, and a fairly consistent shortlist tends to come up in travel forums, vlogs, and visitor surveys: the absence of tipping, …

Korea’s tourism boom has reached a new milestone: the country recorded its ten-millionth foreign visitor of the year by the third week of June 2026, a pace that puts the …

Korea’s tourism sector crossed a milestone this June that took a little less time to reach than even last year’s record pace. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced …