Visit Korea Committee Activities

2016–2018 Visit Korea Year Is Publicized at Korea Culture Festival 2016 in India
2016–2018 Visit Korea Year Is Publicized at Korea Culture Festival 2016 in India Darting in and out of different places all over the world, the 2016–2018 Visit Korea Year campaign always strives to make further known Korean culture and the Visit Korea Year among global people. 🙂 From November 17 to 19, we participated in the Korea Culture Festival 2016 in India at the Paragati Maidan Hamsadhwani Theatre, New Delhi. The opening ceremony is announcing the start of the event! We had a performance of smashing gourds, which symbolizes expelling bad energy and bringing good luck. At the entrance, we could see Visit Korea Year Ambassador Pororo and his friends. Thanks to the nearby event schedule bulletin, this photo zone was easily noticed. She took a commemorative photo wearing hanbok with actor Lee Min-ho, another ambassador for the 2016-2018 Visit Korea Year! As we expected, children loved Pororo and his friends. 🙂 Lee Min-ho and Pororo were popular with everyone, both men and women, young and old, in India as well! At the promotional booth, the campaign of the 2016-2018 Visit Korea Year was publicized. The guide is explaining a visitor about our campaign using the prepared leaflets. Next day, on November 19th, a Korean culture performance show was held. The show got so a great popularity that the audience seats already were nearly full even before the show began! The promotional video of the 2016-2018 Visit Korea Year was screened. The Indian visitors showed big interest in the various events and benefits offered during the Visit Korea Year. 🙂 Now the diverse Korean culture performances have begun—taekwondo and K-pop. The audience was extremely excited, full of enthusiasm. We hope that more Indian tourists visit Korea during the 2016-2018 Visit Korea Year, as a result of vigorous exchanges between India and Korea in the future. 🙂
Date : 2016/11/30 | Views : 4508
2016–2018 Visit Korea Year Is Publicized at K-Winter & Glocal Travel Carnival in Hong Kong
2016–2018 Visit Korea Year Is Publicized at K-Winter & Glocal Travel Carnival in Hong Kong As always it does, the 2016–2018 Visit Korea Year appeared at the K-Winter & Glocal Travel Carnival in Hong Kong that was held for three days from November 18th. 🙂 On the first day, an information session was held where tourism agencies in Hong Kong were introduced to Korean tours. And on the weekend, a B2C event took place that attracted individual consumers downtown at a large shopping mall “Plaza Hollywood.” Shall we go see there? This is the B2B Travel Mart! The Visit Korea Year’s promotional video is being played! There was a consultation booth where staff members of Hong Kong tourism agencies were informed about the ongoing campaign programs of the Visit Korea Committee. Before the luncheon, an information session was held regarding the 2016–2018 Visit Korea Year. Every attendee showed a strong interest in our campaign. Now we’ve arrived at the “K-Winter & Glocal Travel Carnival”! The committee’s booth is seen at once even when far away! Do you see the visitors waiting in a very long line? The game wheel event was popular with everyone, as it offered a variety of giveaways! The waiting line was so long that it fully surrounded the whole border of the booth. Actor Lee Min-ho, an ambassador for the 2016–2018 Visit Korea Year! He seems to have become an official personage whom we can meet at every fair worldwide participated by the committee. 🙂 Another event was also arranged to give emblem sticker tattoos. Families decorated their members with the emblem tattoos that signify our Visit Korea Year campaign! The Visit Korea Year’s promotional video was being played over and over throughout the campaign event at the main hall of the shopping mall! Whenever Ambassador Pororo, Lee Min-ho, or Seolhyun appears appeared on the screen, passersby stopped and stared at the video. The popularity of Korean tours in Hong Kong was no less than in the last year. 🙂 All visitors whom we met at the K-Winter & Glocal Travel Carnival in Hong Kong! We hope to see all of them again in Korea!
Date : 2016/11/30 | Views : 4188
K-Travel Bus Tour for Attending Music Bank’s Gyeongju Special Show
K-Travel Bus Tour for Attending Music Bank’s Gyeongju Special Show 33 foreign friends from 16 different countries gathered together for a tour to Gyeongju by the K-Travel Bus in the early morning of Friday, November 18. This tour included attending the KBS music program Music Bank’s Gyeongju Special Show. Though the participants were from different countries, they were all K-Pop fans and thus quickly became friends. They were all laughing together during the entire two-day tour. They are arriving in Gyeongju after a long 4 and a half hour ride! As they left the bus, “WOW” was exclaimed in concert. We could feel the history emanating from the 1,000-year-old ancient city of Gyeongju. We listened to our guide explain about the Donggung Palace and Wolji Pond. Then we walked under trees radiant with colorful leaves. There were lots of ginkgo trees with yellow leaves on the hills of the Donggung Palace and Wolji Pond. Everyone enjoyed them as if they were little children. We arrived at the Gyeongju Citizens Stadium to watch the Music Bank show. We witnessed the popularity of K-Pop from a very long line of attendees even before the concert started. We received our admission bracelets from the foreigner ticket exchange booth and finally entered the stadium! However… As soon as we entered, it started to rain. 🙁 Our foreign friends were cheering hard despite the rain as they were seeing close up the K-Pop stars, Twice, EXO, BTS and others, whom they had dreamed about for so long! Well done! The next day we traveled to the Bulguksa Temple and Seokguram Grotto. Do you see the beautiful colors? Our foreign friends really fell under the charm of the Korean fall scenery throughout the tour. I am sure each took a few hundred photos. 🙂 A group picture taken in front of the Daeungjeon Hall! Everyone exclaimed aloud seeing the old Bulguksa Temple and the intricate architecture of the Silla dynasty. At the entrance of Seokguram, she is writing down her wish on the roof tile. I hope it will help her realize the dream when she returns to home! “We made a lot of fun memories during the two-day trip. :)" They said they had discovered the charm of the Korean countryside away from Seoul through this tour and plan to visit other provincial places in the future. We from the Visit Korea Committee felt great accompanying them throughout the tour! See you again!
Date : 2016/11/25 | Views : 4607
2016–2018 Visit Korea Year Publicized at CITM 2016
2016–2018 Visit Korea Year Publicized at CITM 2016 This is the Shanghai International New Expo Center, where the China International Travel Mart (CITM) is held! It was so a hugely attended event that bore witness to its popularity. You can really tell China is a big country. As an honorary ambassador for the 2016–2018 Visit Korea Years, actor Lee Min-ho was waiting for the visitors at the main booth of the Korean Pavilion. 🙂 We saw his popularity at a peak in China too! Many Chinese were eager to take pictures of him. Inside the Korea Tourism Organization booth! Do you see the leaflets containing well-summarized information about the 2016–2018 Visit Korea Year’s campaign and its emblem stickers? Wearing traditional Andong Hahoe masks, the dancers are dancing to a K-pop song in the Korean Pavilion! I am getting excited myself! 🙂 The visitors were especially interested in the emblem stickers. I couldn’t miss out on this opportunity! I explained to them about the various programs conducted by the Visit Korea Committee. The CITM took place in five halls of the Shanghai International New Expo Center. As China is a large country, the event was huge. 🙂 We look forward to seeing more Chinese tourists in Korea, including those we met during the CITM, so that they may experience its rich tourist culture during the 2016–2018 Visit Korea Years.
Date : 2016/11/18 | Views : 4352
Briefing Session on the Outcomes of the Korea Sale FESTA
Briefing Session on the Outcomes of the Korea Sale FESTA A briefing session on the outcomes of the Korea Sale FESTA’s special discount period for foreign visitors was held on November 10 at the Culture Hall of Hyundai Department Store in Apgujeong. The Korea Sale FESTA lasted for 33 days from September 29 to October 31. It is a global festival of shopping, tourism, and culture that includes large-scale discounts, various promotions solely targeted at foreign tourists, and Korean Wave entertainment events! The representatives of the participant companies of the Korea Sale FESTA were filing in one by one. Shall we watch the briefing session on the outcomes of this festival participated by numerous local companies and organizations in distribution, manufacturing, tourism, entertainment, and other various fields? 🙂 The briefing session began with a welcoming address delivered by Secretary-General Han Kyung-ah of the Visit Korea Committee. And it was followed by a brief description on the Korea Sale FESTA and its outcomes. The attendees showed great interest in the outcomes—what kinds of online and offline events had taken place and how many foreigners had participated—as they had served as representatives for their companies during the festival. Next, there was an awards ceremony for the companies that had made great contributions to the success of the Korea Sale FESTA. To find out the greatest contributors, quantitative and qualitative evaluations were conducted based on various criteria! What were the results? A little bit nervous to guess which companies would be winners! The grand prize, “Minister of Culture and Sports Award,” went to Korea Smart Card and Lotte Duty Free. The runner-up prize, “Chairman of the Visit Korea Committee Award,” went to eight companies: Lotte Department Store, E-Mart, Airport Railroad, Shinsegae Duty Free, Etude House, The Face Shop, Jeju Airline, and Asiana Airline. We can’t forget about the special prizes either, right? The representatives of the Passion Award and Promotion Award winners took a commemorative photo together. 🙂 On their way out, the attendees were given another small gift set prepared by the Visit Korea Committee. A cute little tea mug for the upcoming winter and Peperos as it was on the eve of Nov. 11 “Pepero Day”! I hope these gifts were able to convey well enough the committee’s gratitude for their hard labor … The 2016 event is over but it is told that the Korea Sale FESTA will take place regularly, once or twice a year, until 2018 to be positioned as Asia’s premier shopping and tourism festival. I hope that it will continue its success, delivering benefits to more foreign visitors and helping them make some lasting memories! 🙂
Date : 2016/11/18 | Views : 3827