Chinese tourists shun Korea for 7th straight month

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Chinese tourists shun Korea for 7th straight month

PUBLISHED :October 23, 2017 - 14:37
UPDATED :October 23, 2017 - 14:37

[THE INVESTOR] The number of Chinese tourists in Korea declined 56 percent on-year in September, marking the seventh straight month of decrease following the diplomatic row over the deployment of THAAD missile system, government data showed on Oct. 23.

The tally of Chinese visitors came to 318,682 last month, according to the data by the Korea Tourism Organization.

The overall number of visitors from the neighboring country in the January-September period stood at 3.19 million, a 49.6 percent drop from 6.33 million in the same nine months of 2016, it showed.

Dragged down by weak inbound traffic from China, the total number of foreigners who visited South Korea last month fell 29.2 percent on-year to 1.07 million from 1.52 million, according to the data.

Chinese visitors accounted for nearly half of the 17 million foreigners that visited the country last year.

Korea also saw the number of visitors from the Philippines and Indonesia plunge 37 percent and 33.6 percent on-year in September, respectively, according to the data.

But tourists from Japan moved up 5.4 percent on-year to reach 219,968 last month, with those from Hong Kong and Taiwan also rising 6.7 percent and 0.7 percent over the cited period, respectively, they showed.

By Alex Lee and newswires (alexlee@heraldcorp.com)

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