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(1)Anti-Chinese restrictions on single visas
(2)S. Koreans to China Plunge This Year
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(4)Reporter Bae Sang-yoon
(5)a family of one street
(6)90 down from pre-COVID-19
(7)We’ve entered the holiday season, but the demand for travel to China is extremely sluggish This year, the number of Korean tourists to China plunged to a tenth of what it was before COVID-19
(8)Reporter Bae Sang-yoon covered why
(9)Report
(10)Kim Yeh in her 20s who traveled to Beijing, China before the COVID-19 outbreak
(11)Won, you chose to go to Japan instead of China
(12)Kim Ye-won, a tourist
(13)I think the image of COVID-19 at the time of the incident is strongly embedded in my mind I don’t want to choose because I feel uncomfortable
(14)In fact, the number of Koreans who visited China from January to April this year plunged by 90 compared to four years ago before COVID-19
(15)In particular, it decreased by 85 in April when China lifted all entry restrictions on foreigners
(16)Departure check-in for the U.S. is lined up to the waiting line, while the next window, the Chinese check-in, is quiet
(17)Analysts say that the visa issuance process is still difficult and that tourism’s favorability has declined due to the recent breakdown in Korea-China relations
(18)On top of that, as visits to Japan recovered to pre-COVID levels due to the weak yen, the atmosphere reversed from No Japan to No China
(19)Han Jin-soo, professor of hotel management at Kyung Hee University
(20)I think the good-neighborhood relationship between countries itself is the most important factor in tourism We’ve been having a bad relationship lately
(21)The sky path between Korea and China is expected to narrow down as some airlines will even suspend flights between Gimpo and Beijing from next month amid less recovery of flights to and from China
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