Kang Woo-hyon
The author is the CEO of Tamnara Republic and writer of children’s books.
The government included tourism in its national projects of “Top 10 Strategic Industries” in 1996, “New Growth Engine of the Korean Economy” in 2013 and “Three Major Export Industries” in 2019. It has been a tradition that the president host an extended tourism promotion meeting to resolve differences between ministries and support collaboration. Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Yoo In-chon, vowed that the promotion of K-culture could attract 20 million tourists this year at a recent strategy meeting for the Visit Korea Year campaign.
56 million people had traveled through Incheon International Airport as of the end of last year, bringing the number of international tourists close to its pre-pandemic…
