Visit Korea Committee Activities

2016 Singapore Travel Revolution
2016 Singapore Travel Revolution ‘The 2016–2018 Visit Korea Year is emerging in Singapore! From August 19th to 21st, the Travel Revolution Fair took place at the Marina Bay Sands Expo Hall, Singapore. It is said that there were 67 institutions attending along with about 75,000 visitors. Especially, the Visit Korea Committee’s booth had a constant stream of visitors, more than any other booths. Let’s depart to the scene right now! We’ve arrived at the event place of the Travel Revolution a bit early! There, people seemed very busy moving goods and organizing booths. Do you see the emblem of the 2016–2018 Visit Korea Year? It’s seen at once even when far away! 🙂 You can also see a leaflet promoting the 2016–2018 Visit Korea Year! From the K-Travel Bus, an overnight bus-tour service for foreigners visiting Korea, to the Korea Grand Sale, a representative Korean shopping festival that offers tours and cultural experiences, everything is ready to welcome visitors! 🙂 It’s 11 am o’clock now! As soon as the fair started, many people visited the booth of the 2016–2018 Visit Korea Year. “Ride on the K-Travel Bus and have a trip to provincial spots outside Seoul that have unique and distinctive appeals in their own ways!” The booth was constantly filled with visitors since its opening until 9 pm at night. It was a bit tiring but we could feel Singaporeans’ endless love and affection toward Korea! We hope their interest in Korea leads to their decision to visit here. 🙂 We appreciate those who have visited the 2016 Travel Revolution, in particular our 2016-2018 Visit Korea Year booth. See you all again in Korea. 🙂
Date : 2016/08/30 | Views : 5830
The Visit Korea Committee and the Korea Hotel Association Sign Business Agreement
The Visit Korea Committee and the Korea Hotel Association Sign Business Agreement The Visit Korea Committee  has signed a business agreement with the Korea Hotel Association  on August 23. This agreement means so much to spread over K-Smile campaign to the hotels playing important role in the tourism. Having hearing the good news, we ran to the signing place. Now let me show the scene of the signing ceremony. (Clapping ^^) We arrived at the Korea Hotel Association’s meeting room where the ceremony was taking place. Everybody was busy preparing for the ceremony. Rat-a-tat-tat! Meanwhile, Korea Hotel Association President Yu Yong-jong and Visit Korea Committee Secretary-General Katie Han were talking about how the K-Smile campaign could spread further and also about various other collaborative projects in the next meeting room. Subsequently, the business agreement was signed for the implementation of collaborative activities for the K-Smile campaign. “We pledge active participation in K-Smile campaign’s encouragement of the Korean public to welcome foreign tourists with kindness and bright smiles!” Next, a commemorative photo was taken of Korea Hotel Association President Yu (left) and Visit Korea Committee  Secretary-General Katie Han. They both posed with beautiful smiles that perfectly suit the K-Smile. 🙂 “Korea’s smiles make the world smile.” A snap with the K-Smile emblem! 🙂 We hope our all-out efforts will result in the successful implementation of the K-Smile campaign.
Date : 2016/08/30 | Views : 6585
Information Session for the 2016 Korea Sale FESTA
Information Session for the 2016 Korea Sale FESTA On August 12, an information session took place for the 2016 Korea Sale FESTA! At this session event, company managers of related fields willing to participate in this festival were informed of the festival and shared their opinions for the success of the festival. We immediately rushed to the event to make a vivid coverage of the site after hearing that it will be spectacular. We arrived at the event place a bit early! Soon these seats will be full of attendees, right? As it was almost 4 pm, the starting time of the session, people started showing up one by one. In front of the entry, some event staff were registering the attendees to figure out who participated in this session. Guides were moving around busily ~ ^^ There was an announcement that the session would be starting soon (heart beating), followed by Secretary-General Katie Han of the Korea Visit Committee delivering a welcoming address. “We would like to welcome everyone at this information session for the 2016 Korea Sale FESTA.” The next part was an explanation of the projects that will be implemented for the 2016 Korea Sale FESTA. Seeing every attendee listening carefully to the session made us feel that even a shutter sound of taking pictures one by one was too loud. Lastly, it was a Q&A period. We could feel how many people had great interest and affection toward the 2016 Korea Sale FESTA! There were a lot of people staying for a long time after the official Q&A period to ask their individual questions. Also, many other attendees were exchanging their opinions. (Perhaps it would be a rare opportunity to see attendees showing such an attitude, right? ^^) Today’s session was attended by 159 people from 93 companies. As the 2016 Korea Sale FESTA is taking place this October, it is still a month away but we are already highly looking forward to what benefits and enjoyments there will be for foreigners visiting Korea.
Date : 2016/08/29 | Views : 5654
Activities of the 14th University Students’ National Smile Team
Activities of the 14th University Students’ National Smile Team <Everybody Joins in the K-Smile Campaign> On July 29, the more than 70 energetic members of the 14th University Students’ National Smile Team all gathered to hold an event titled “Everybody Joins in the K-Smile Campaign!” A variety of programs were conducted to publicize the 2016–2018 Visit Korea Year and K-Smile campaign to local and foreign passersby around Hongik University (Hongdae streets). They included a world greetings quiz, an emblem puzzle game, and making a Pledge of Kindness. Now, let’s go see the Hongdae streets echoed with enthusiasm for the K-Smile campaign! Even before the event began, our student members were busy preparing for various programs. They are putting some stuff on each other’s face quite earnestly! We took a closer look, and, yes, the things on their faces were tattoo stickers of the K-Smile and Visit Korea Year emblems At first, we were worried because it rained all morning, but it gradually became a bright, sunny day! Maybe the weather also was supporting for our students on the day. 🙂 Now is the time to go around the booths where programs are being operated. Countless people came out to participate. You see the emblems of the 2016–2018 Visit Korea Year and the K-Smile campaign. For the K-Smile emblem, a puzzle game was played where the players made the two smiling cute, roundish faces “Hello!” “Ni hao!” This booth offered a game where the participants answered questions on different greetings around the world. Foreign tourists also seemed to be very interested in the event! (Our student members looked great when we saw them talking with foreigners fluently with a pretty smile.) Visitors posted their Pledges of Kindness on this Post-it wall. We were so touched by a warm-hearted promise shown in each and every page of the pledges Pororo, the mascot of the 2016–2018 Visit Korea Year, is one of the main characters we should never miss! As you know, his popularity among kids is unmatchable! (We all give thanks to the guy who had to sweat a lot behind the Pororo mask on such a hot summer day for his great job!) All of our members posed for a photo after everything ended perfectly. It is all thanks to the active participation of a great many visitors!! We expect this event has served as a trigger for the Hongdae streets to newly emerge as a famous tourist place where foreign tourists feel the true Korean culture of kindness!
Date : 2016/08/09 | Views : 6036
K-Smile Campaign’s Food-Themed Street Relay
<K-Smile Campaign’s Food-Themed Street Relay> The K-Smile campaign has finished events on the five food-themed streets of Korea: Anjirang Gopchang Street in Daegu, Memil Street in Bongpyeong, Pyeongchang, Yeongdeok Crab Street in Yeongdeok, Guryong-po Gwamegi Mulhoi Street in Pohang, and Namhansan Fortress Baeksuk Street in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province! The committee staff and members of the University Students’ National Smile Team paraded down all the food-themed streets, asking for restaurant workers’ practice of kindly service and food hygiene. Even neither rain nor severe heat could quench the passion of the K-Smile campaign’s Food-Themed Street Relay! Let’s go see such great moments! Anjirang Gopchang (small intestines) Street, Daegu, on Jul 1 <K-Smile campaign - On the Anjirang Gopchang Street, Daegu> <K-Smile campaign together with the members of the University Students’ National Smile Team!> Memil (buckwheat) Street, Bongpyeong, Pyeongchang, on Jul 7 <Here is the Memil Food Street running through Lee Hyo-seok Culture Village!> Yeongdeok Crab Street in Yeongdeok, Northern Gyeongsang, on Jul 15 <Here is the Yeongdeok Crab Street, Northern Gyeongsang!> Guryong-po Gwamegi Mulhoi Street on Jul 21 <Here is the Guryong-po Gwamegi Mulhoi Street!> <Members of the University Students’ National Smile Team distributing K-Smile souvenirs - Please give South Korea a pretty smile that makes people want to visit again!> Namhansan Fortress Baeksuk Street in Gwangju, Geonggi, on Jul 28 <Here is the Baeksuk Street at Namhansan Fortress where friendly smiles and safe foods wait for your visits!> <The University Students’ National Smile Team participating in the K-Smile campaign on the Baeksuk Street!> Food-themed streets of Korea! As tradespeople have promised to render a tourist destination of kindness and cleanliness, it is highly expected that visitors to here want to come again as a heart of the tourist attraction for eating!
Date : 2016/08/08 | Views : 5548