screen tourism

Tourists are no longer content to just watch a K-drama’s back-alley chase scene or its quiet riverside finale — increasingly, they want to stand in it. According to the tourism …

Gyeongsangbuk-do (Gyeongbuk) province has hosted roughly 300 film and drama productions over the past three years by running what amounts to a one-stop location-scouting service for producers — handling site …

Foreign visitors to N Seoul Tower’s YTN Seoul Tower observatory hit 79,200 in September 2025, up 50.6 percent from 52,600 the same month a year earlier — the highest monthly …

For most of the last six centuries, Cheongnyeongpo — a river bend in Yeongwol County, Gangwon Province — drew the kind of visitor who already knew Korean history cold: the …

The railway crossing sits on an ordinary residential street in Kamakura, Japan — barely wide enough for a single car. Lately it’s rarely empty. Tourists from Korea, Indonesia and Myanmar …

Korean tourism has long worked the same way: a drama becomes a global hit, fans recognize a café or a sea wall from a scene they watched on a streaming …

Somewhere in North Chungcheong Province, there’s a reservoir that horror-content creators have quietly called a “haunted spot” for years — the kind of place that shows up in spooky YouTube …

For years, the pattern has repeated itself the same way: a drama airs, one scene gets filmed in some quiet provincial town nobody outside Korea had heard of, and within …