Foreign tourists visiting Korea on cruise ships will be able to receive a refund of internal taxes on goods purchased at local duty-free stores starting next week, the customs agency said Friday.
A flight carrying Korean tourists from Dubai landed at Incheon International Airport on Thursday afternoon. They were returned home due to recent military clashes in the Middle East involving the United States, Israel and Iran.
Starting on Wednesday, visitors to Britain from 85 countries must obtain an electronic permit in advance of their trip or they will be barred from travelling, the British interior ministry said.
Two tourists assaulted a security guard at Gyeongbok Palace in central Seoul after they were stopped from entering a restricted area to take photos, police said Thursday.
Australian police are investigating whether a Canadian tourist discovered dead on a beach in the northern state of Queensland drowned or was attacked by a pack of dingoes, the wild dogs native to the country.
Two Chinese tourists who entered Korea on Thursday under a visa-free program have gone missing, prompting immigration authorities to launch a search.
Bedding shops in Gwangjang Market have recently become a tourist hot spot, with blankets flying off the shelves as foreign tourists snatch them up, but shop owners are reportedly dodging taxes by pushing for cash transactions.
A social media post showing a group of customers who brought fried chicken and soju into a Starbucks in Yangpyeong County, Gyeonggi, has further stoked rising anti-Chinese sentiment in Korea that Seoul and Beijing have recently condemned.
A traveler left 1.1 million won in cash along with a handwritten note in Japanese in a donation box operated by the Korean Red Cross at Gimhae International Airport, airport officials said.
The 9-month-old baby of a Japanese tourist couple, who was injured in a taxi crash last month in Seoul last month, has died, police confirmed Tuesday.
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