Visit Korea Committee Activities

Awards for 5th Youth National Smile Team and K-Smile Campaign
Awards for 5th Youth National Smile Team and K-Smile Campaign So it happened on October 21! The Awards for our Youth National Smile Team members. 🙂 This time, held in Myongdong, it included a K-Smile Campaign event. It was the laughter of the happy youth that announced the commencement of the event, we were told. Join me to the sites where it was filled with happy energy of the members of the Youth National Smile Team! The 5th Youth National Smile Team members are entering into the award ceremony! Hot! Hot! Feel all that energy that filled the place even before it began! We can feel that positive energy of our Youth National Smile Team friends all the way to here~ Award presentation! So exciting to guess who will be called up! 6 groups were selected each in the middle school sector and the high school sector. Congratulations to all and every one of you ~ “Snick!” A commemorative photo was taken with Secretary-General Han Kyung-ah! 🙂 Followed by a presentation of the selected excellent mission activities. So happy to see the members of the University Students’ National Smile Team! Continue on with your career as the a National Smile Team member even after joining college ~ Stories told by senior members were appreciated by attentive listeners, and soon enough they will become seniors to tell their stories. ^^ They are the future directors to make Korea smile! Thank you very much to all the members of the 5th Youth National Smile Team. Followed by the K-Smile Campaign event held in Myeongdong. This time the most loved Pororo joins together! Promoting the K-Smile Campaign was not only for locals, but also foreign visitors to Korea. Seemed a bit shy at first, but then passion took it over 🙂 And a Kindness Pledge session took part, too. I am hereby a member of the proud “National Smile Team”! Pororo, the official character ambassador of the Visit Korea Year, is well loved everywhere! Today was with the members of the 5th Youth National Smile Team. 🙂 They smiled and laughed more than ever, filled with overflowing positive energy. Once a National Smile Team member, always a National Smile Team member! Share and spread your beautiful smiles forward and forever ~
Date : 2016/10/28 | Views : 4931
Press Convergence with Foreign Journalists and Reporters Producing Special Programs about Korea in Celebration of 2016–2018 Vis
Press Convergence with Foreign Journalists and Reporters Producing Special Programs about Korea in Celebration of 2016–2018 Visit Korea Year A press conference was held for foreign journalists and reporters at the Foreign Press Center in Gwanghwamun at 9:30 am on October 18th. They said they visited Korea to prepare special documentary programs portraying the attractive aspects of Korea, from Botswana, Romania, Peru, and Serbia. The 2016–2018 Visit Korea Year can definitely not be missing in this meaningful event, right? The reporters are already actively talking with each other even before the press conference! Perhaps their talks were about attractive tourist sites of Korea, weren’t they? They were staying in Korea for 10 days from October 16th to 25th to cover various aspects of Korea. On the 19th, they visited an event booth installed in Dongdaemun to experience the services of Visit Korea Committee. 🙂 Unlike the previous foreign press conference, at today’s conference we saw expensive and heavy equipment. It was because the attending reporters were from TV broadcasting stations! As usual, the event started with a welcoming message by Secretary-General Han Kyung-ah of the Visit Korea Committee! Fall is the best season to enjoy a trip in Korea, right? In addition, the Korea Sale FESTA’s special period for foreign tourists is also open throughout October! Secretary-General Han expected the news reporters visiting Korea in this great period to take coverage of more dynamic and active aspects of Korea. She said at the end of the message that she hoped each reporter to make many enjoyable memories even though they had come here for news coverage. They watched the promotional video of the 2016–2018 Visit Korea Year together. This video does probably contain a condensation of the splendid and diverse images of Korea! (I’m so proud!) After a brief introduction to the Visit Korea Committee’s programs, Manager Kim Hyeon-joon of the Visit Korea Committee’s Marketing Team explained details on the Korea Sale FESTA. This grand event is a shopping & tour festival that is already underway to offer special discounts for foreign tourists nationwide The special benefits provided in this period can be checked directly on the website! (▷ See details: http://www.koreagrandsale.co.kr/en ) The subsequent Q&A session was passionately participated by both questioners and answerers! The news reporter who came from Peru asked if there was no service given in Spanish or a service for South American tourists. (The interpreter is interpreting him with passion!) Please stay tuned if you are a Spanish speaker, as we are going to gradually expand our services for various languages from now on^^! We wrapped up the press conference today with a finger heart picture that we always leave everywhere ~ 😀 Onsite Coverage at Event Booth for Korea Sale FESTA It was the very next day! In the evening of October 19th, the news reporters visited the event booth of the Korea Sale FESTA. See their passionate effort for coverage intensely felt from the Dongdaemun Event Center! Various events are held every week! It was in the Must-Do Week that the reporters visited here. They got an opportunity to watch performances of the Hanboknoledan Club. They seemed very impressed by the beauty of Hanbok *_* They themselves experienced various events run at the event booth too! We hope all the news reporters visiting Korea make many great memories during their 10 days of coverage and look forward them to making wonderful programs after returning to their countries!
Date : 2016/10/26 | Views : 5030
K-Smile Campaign Event Held in Conjunction with Korea Sale FESTA
K-Smile Campaign Event Held in Conjunction with Korea Sale FESTA On the 12th, a K-Smile Campaign event took place around the Hongdae Streets in Conjunction with Korea Sale FESTA! The day’s event was honored by the participation of the Visit Korea Committee and its University Students’ National Smile Team, Korea Tourism Organization, Korea Tourist Guide Association, Hongdae Walking Street Tradespeople Association, tourist police officers, tour guides, and even Australian comedian Sam Hammington! Really so many people gathered here from various organizations to join in the campaign! Before the event’s street parade starts, shall we take a commemorative photo? Let’s get determined to lead the success of today’s K-Smile Campaign event! 🙂 We saw many foreign tourists walking around the Hongdae Streets. We informed them about the K-Smile Campaign and Korea Sale FESTA’s special discount period for foreign customers. Meanwhile, Comedian Sam Hammington drew attention wherever he is! 🙂 We heard his animated laughter even from far away! Tradespeople working on the Hongdae Streets also showed close interest in the K-Smile Campaign! They promised to practice kindly services with welcoming smiles, in particular during the Korea Sale FESTA when foreign tourists’ visits peaked. Ever full of youth and vitality is Hongdae! We wish for Hongade to keep overflowing with kindness and smiles!
Date : 2016/10/20 | Views : 5083
Event Center Opens for Korea Sale FESTA!
Event Center Opens for Korea Sale FESTA! Here’s the way to enjoy the 2016 Korea Sale FESTA even more excitingly and entertainingly! That is a simple visit to the Korea Sale FESTA’s event center open at the square in front of Doota, Dongdaemoon from October 1 to 31 when the grand festival is held to offer great sales nationwide for foreign customers. At the event center, foreign tourists are provided with various benefits and get a chance to join diverse events! So today! We’ve just arrived in Dongdaemoon to visit the event center! The event center is all in pink! It’s so apparent even from far away. Look around! Is this because of China’s National Holiday season, maybe? Here and there were Chinese guests getting informed about the event. (The interpretation service is not limited to Chinese but offered in English and Japanese too!) Perhaps you used to feel inconvenient of your cell phone battery so quickly running out on every occasion when you were enjoying a tour. But don’t worry now! A battery charging station is available at the event center and compatible with every phone model. (It reminds me of a sad experience of mine that I wandered around with my battery dead relying on body language in a strange place...!) But in Korea, just come here to the event booth and you’ll be relieved. And you can also enjoy free Internet and Wi-Fi access here. 🙂 Oh! These guys seem to be joining a postcard mailing event. To write to ourselves is more than natural when we’re abroad, isn’t it? (It would end up with embarrassing myself when I recall it though...) There’s really many kinds of events underway! See how rhythmically the Pink Box Men are dancing!! Their popularity was no smaller than that of Pororo, who is the main character ambassador of the Visit Korea Year. 🙂 One of them is a lucky draw, where you can get a giveaway, such as a cosmetic set, red ginseng, or a prepaid card for Shinsegae Duty Free, only if you hold receipts for purchases at Korea Sale FESTA stores that add up to KRW 100,000 or higher. Here, Special Theme Weeks are scheduled to take place one after another over the whole festival period, with a different theme in each week as follows: - Must-Buy Week (October 1–9) - Must-See Week (October 10–16) - Must-Do Week (October 17–23) - Must-Eat Week (October 24–31) That means that a new, different kind of fun is awaiting you in every week! 🙂 People were constantly visiting the event center until very late night. Do you plan to have a trip in Korea in October? Or, do you have a foreign friend in Korea? I strongly recommend you all to visit our event booth! 🙂
Date : 2016/10/11 | Views : 5218
Welcoming Event for First Foreign Guest to 2016 Korea Sale FESTA
Welcoming Event for First Foreign Guest to 2016 Korea Sale FESTA We heard the news that a welcoming event is about to taking place at 00:00 on Saturday, October 1 for the first foreign visitor to Korea during the 2016 Korea Sale FESTA. To see that significant moment, we arrived at Incheon International Airport on TGIF day! In celebration of the Korea Sale FESTA’s beginning, the event opened to welcome the first foreign comer to Incheon International Airport with the participation of Minister of Culture, Sports Cho Yun-seon and officials from the Korea Tourism Organization, Korean Air, Asiana Airlines and other agencies in the field of tourism. It’s 21:00! (Three hours left. So heart-beating!!) Everybody is busy arranging the event. Here are guides dressed in beautiful hanbok and even Pororo, the main character ambassador of the 2016–2018 Visit Korea Year!! At Arrivals Hall, 10 members of the University Student National Smile Team joined in carrying out a kindness culture campaign activity targeted at workers at the airport. Not only to the workers, but to foreign visitors too, did they give bright smiles and gifts. 🙂 Before the welcoming event for the first foreign comer to Korea, the participating officials were discussing how to develop the Korean tourism industry. “Tourism is a momentum to vitalize local economies and, on a broader level, the whole nation’s economy,” emphasized Minister Cho. “The most essential is cooperation between all the sectors of tourism and organizations therein.” Secretary-General Han Kyung-ah of the committee remarked on the K-Smile Campaign as a key player to lead the qualitative growth of the Korean tourism industry, saying, “Through the K-Smile Campaign, we’ll continue making efforts to help Korea leave a good impression as a kind and warm country on foreign visitors and thus to render ‘a Korea where to want to visit again’.” Even at the late night could I feel a great passion at the discussion for the Korean tourism industry, as if even a camera shutter sound might disturb them. 🙂 Now! Only little time is left until the first visitors’ arrival at Korea. The first ones were a Chinese couple arriving at 00:20 from Beijing. Minister Cho presented them with flower bouquets and a bright smile, while the first comers smiled bashfully at this unexpected luck. 🙂 To the couple, Minister Cho herself handed a popular set of Korean products consisting of cosmetics and a ticket for experiencing Korean dishes. And then a commemorative photo was taken. How about making an energetic shout all together to call the “Korea Sale FESTA”? (Starting from the left) Executive Vice President of Korean Air Ma Won, Ms. Dong-Yu the first foreign visitor to Korea, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Cho Yoon-seon, Mr. Kang Weilong a fellow traveler with the first visitor to Korea, CEO of the Korea Tourism Organization Jung Chang-soo, Vice President of Asiana Airlines Cho Kyu-young, Chairman of the Korea Tourism Association Kim Hong-ju. And then a commemorative shot with members of the University Students’ and Workers’ National Smile Teams! (Members of the University Students’ and Workers’ National Smile Teams, the first foreign visitor couple to Korea, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Cho Yoon-seon [fifth from the left]) Finally, a shot taken with the staff members of the Visit Korea Committee participating in this welcoming event from beginning to end. In October, a festival mood will go on over the whole month in harmony of shopping, tourism and the Korea Wave. From this event on, we’ll do our best to present foreign visitors to Korea with more fun and exciting memories. 🙂 We hope the Korea Sale FESTA will be a great success!
Date : 2016/10/10 | Views : 6112