Tourism industry suffers 3.4 tln won loss from MERS outbreak: report
Nov 6, 2015
The South Korean tourism industry suffered massive losses from the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome outbreak as travelers shunned public venues, a report showed Friday. South Korea was hit hard by the MERS outbreak since the first confirmed case in late May, losing 1.53 million in the number of inbound travelers from June to September compared with a year ago, according to the report by the Korea Culture & Tourism Institute. The loss from the falling travelers was estimated at 2.23 trillion w