"Tourists from overseas who visited Korea to the village at the end of the ground"...Connecting with Seoul

[Anchor]
Seoul is the most popular destination for foreign tourists visiting Korea.

In this way, a project to distribute tourists concentrated in Seoul to local tourism infrastructure has begun.

Reporter Kim Jin-doo reports.

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The biggest reason foreigners visit Korea is Korean Wave content.


K-music or drama makes you feel good about Korea and actually visit.

This was followed by an interest in Korean traditional culture.

However, 64% of the 11 million tourists who visited Korea last year visited Seoul alone.

It was followed by Busan, Incheon, and Jeju.

Apart from large cities where information is known to some extent abroad, few domestic tourist destinations are found.

A project has begun to allow foreign tourists visiting Seoul to visit Ttangkkeut Village and Haenam.

[Seowon Seok / Senior Vice President, Korea Tourism Association: The Ministry of Culture once carried out the base city project. It is to designate a base city and distribute tourists to small and medium-sized cities around it, but Seoul is the hub that can absorb the most tourists.]

The most important transportation is KTX for Seoul-Busan and Namhae Line for Busan-Hannam.

Expansion of accommodation facilities, including hotels, and cultural experience products such as K-food and temple stays will also be prepared.

[Old-shaped / CEO of Haenam Foundation: One of the things I can say is "luxury (tourism)" is the temple stay at Daeheungsa Temple]

Temple stay in Daeheungsa Temple and Mihwangsa Temple is the most preferred area for foreign tourists.

If the project, which attracts tourists visiting Seoul to Haenam, is successful, it is also expected to spread to other areas with tourism resources.

I'm Kim Jindu of YTN.