Visit Korea Committee Activities

Visit Korea Committee Holds Press Conference with Foreign Reporters for the 2016–2018 Visit Korea Year
Visit Korea Committee Holds Press Conference with Foreign Reporters for the 2016–2018 Visit Korea Year     The 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games is right around the corner! The Visit Korea Committee held a press conference introducing 2016–2018 Visit Korea Year’s ongoing programs that operate in line with the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. The press conference was held in August 29 with the invitation of 14 reporters and staff from eight countries including Mongolia, Austria, and Peru. 🙂 The attendees were informed of the 2016–2018 Visit Korea Year’s foreigner-friendly tourist programs.These services are always open to all foreign tourists! Amongst the services, there is the Korea Tour Card! As Korea tours are becoming ever more popular, we handed out this card to all the participants hoping they will use it when visiting Korea again. After the presentations, we proceeded with a small quiz to refresh the mood. With prizes involved, everyone was actively participating by shouting out answers!! At the end of the conference, a reporter from Peru interviewed Visit Korea Committee Secretary-General Han Kyung-ah. She said she would put in her efforts in boosting a positive image of Korea to foreign tourists visiting here for the approaching 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games. Following this event, the foreign reporters plan to visit Incheon City and Gangwon Province, where they will be actively promoting the charms the regions offer. We hope all of them wrap up their itinerary well and create wonderful memories in Korea before heading back. 😀
Date : 2017/09/05 | Views : 5164
Business Presentation Held in Vietnam about All-in-One Festivals for Shopping, Culture, and Sightseeing
Business Presentation Held in Vietnam about All-in-One Festivals for Shopping, Culture, and Sightseeing Coupled with the business presentation on the Hands-Free Service last Wednesday, August 23rd, the Visit Korea Committee held another business presentation in Hanoi, Vietnam to spread the word about Korea’s all-in-one festivals for shopping, culture, and sightseeing and other convenient services. With the invitation of more than 100 guests from local travel agencies and press media, we introduced a variety of benefits in the expectation of attracting more Vietnamese tourists. This year marks the 25th anniversary of South Korea–Vietnam relations, making this event all the more meaningful. Would you like to get a look inside the event? General-Secretary Han Kyung-ah opened the event amidst the joyful atmosphere. She commented that as this event was arranged for greater exchange in tourism between Korea and Vietnam, the Visit Korea Committee would put forth a great effort to help the two countries work together for more tourists visiting each other. 😀 Then, the event finally got to what everyone was waiting for—the introduction to the all-in-one festivals for shopping, culture, and sightseeing! The festivals will be a shopping-focused fusion of sightseeing and the Korean Wave that provide expansive benefits to tourists. Did you know that the festivals are held twice annually? Among them, the Korea Sale FESTA is set to begin on September 28th. I hope you enjoy all of its special perks! 😀 We also introduced the Korea Tour Card, which is a foreigner-only tourist transit card, and the Hands-Free Service, which is a storage and delivery service. The Visit Korea Committee always provide great benefits and necessary services for foreigners visiting Korea. After a delightful banquet meal, we held a raffle for the guests. One lucky lady went away with a voucher that adds a deposit of KRW 500,000 to her Korea Tour Card!  I hope she puts it to good use when she visit Korea. 🙂 To close the event a photo was taken of representatives from both countries. We hope this presentation gives more Vietnamese tourists the opportunity to visit Korea, and that they can take advantage of all the benefits too. The Visit Korea Committee will always welcome you with a warm smile. 🙂
Date : 2017/09/01 | Views : 5216
Business Presentation Session Held to Recruit Hands-Free Service Partners
Business Presentation Session Held to Recruit Hands-Free Service Partners When traveling in Korea, shopping is considered as one of the essential tourist activities.However, you might feel burdened by the increasing purchases you have to carry on during the whole rest of your travel. Then, just use the Visit Korea Committee’s Hands-Free Service!It will help you have a light-handed and sight-filled travel. 🙂 To provide a better Hands-Free Service in partnership with more companies, the Visit Korea Committee held a business presentation session about the Hands-Free Service at the Ferrum Tower in Euljiro on August 16th. Before the presentation began, representatives from nine delivery and storage service providers introduced their businesses.We couldn’t help but anticipate the great ideas and opinions about to be shared by those gathered together from similar yet different businesses. We showed videos introducing the Hands-Free Service and other various campaigns and services currently carried out by the Visit Korea Committee! 🙂 The Hands-Free Service is a must-need for tourists visiting Korea.The committee is said to plan to promote the service to tourists from other countries through interesting content. The Korea Tour Card program was also presented, along with some suggestions to gain synergy by private companies’ joining the partnership for the committee’s programs, such as the Hands-Free Service and the Korea Tour Card. The presentation was followed by a Q&A session, where many opinions were shared and possible directions were discussed.Time flew by as we listened to the opinions of attendees from various businesses for a higher-quality service. We all posed together for group photos and shouted “Go, Hands-Free Service!”The Hands-Free Service will shine even brighter with more companies participating.The Visit Korea Committee will always work hard to provide a light-handed and sight-filled travel experience for tourists visiting Korea.
Date : 2017/08/28 | Views : 5467
2016–2018 Visit Korea Year Participates in the NATAS Holidays 2017, Singapore
2016–2018 Visit Korea Year Participates in the NATAS Holidays 2017, Singapore     The Visit Korea Committee participated in the NATAS Holidays 2017 in Singapore for three days from August 11th to 13th.  They had a very nice opportunity to introduce the 2016–2018 Visit Korea Year campaign and its main programs, such as the Korea Tour Card—a must-have item for foreign visitors to Korea—and the Korea Sale FESTA. The Visit Korea Committee currently offers a variety of convenient services to foreign visitors. Most of you probably know that one of them is the Korea Tour Card, which was launched this January and has sold as many as 80,000 cards so far. The committee explained diverse benefits of this card, as well as of the Korea Sale FESTA. In another corner of the fair, an event of traditional Korean game yoot-nori was played, too! Everyone was thoroughly intrigued by this unusual game, plus the giveaways coming along! This event was conducted both on and off line to extend the message of the 2016–2018 Visit Korea Year to as many people as possible. Just by simply participating in the event you win a giveaway! Are you a frequent visitor of social media? Then visiting the page of the “2016–2018 Visit Korea Year” is a must! 😀 The Hallyu Experience Zone, which was the most intriguing to foreigners, featured the booth of “Hanbok Wearing Experience” where anyone could try on the hanbok, a traditional Korean costume. Many visitors were fascinated by the hanbok’s elegant style. If you plan to visit Korea, it is highly recommended to rent an article of hanbok and wear it when touring around the Gyeongbokgung Palace. The committee sure did not forget to introduce the mega event to be held in Korea. Hosting the PyeongChang Special Zone, they introduced the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games, a festival for the entire world to be held in the snow covered province of Gangwon-do. The Olympic mascots, Soohorang and Bandabi, were the visitors’ absolute favorites! They provided such a great opportunity to get a glimpse at the Olympics that is less than 200 days away. During the three days of the fair, many people could be well informed of Korea tours.  We hope that it will lead foreign visitors to enjoy a wealth of benefits when they actually visit Korea in the future. 😀
Date : 2017/08/23 | Views : 6433
Travel Service Center (TSC) Comes up at Boryeong Mud Festival
Travel Service Center (TSC) Comes up at Boryeong Mud Festival   On a day in July when a heat wave hit, the Mud Festival was held in Boryeong. Celebrating its 20th anniversary, this year’s festival enjoyed more than 5 million and 680 thousand visitors—the largest number ever recorded! Now popular more among foreign tourists, it might deserve to be titled as the best festival of Korea! As it does always, the Visit Korea Committee took part in the festival! Wherever foreign tourists crowd, the Travel Service Center (TSC) follows to provide them with convenient services! 🙂 The TSC worked hard there for three days! The services it provided included interpretation, free Wi-Fi access, mobile phone charging, experiencing tourist attractions in VR, and commemorative photographing, thereby receiving enthusiastic responses from the tourists. 🙂 As the TSC had a constant stream of visitors all day long, we felt proud with our service. Many foreign tourists gave compliments for the TSC! Each group of visitors took a commemorative photo with the TSC in the background! I hope the TSC keeps helping Korea make a good impression on many more foreign tourists. The three days were full of fun! Please do look forward to seeing the TCS at its next destination!
Date : 2017/08/07 | Views : 5722