100,000 Chinese tourists to swamp Korea this week
Apr 30, 2013
Hundreds of Chinese tourists waited in a queue to get on the elevators to Lotte Department Store’s duty free shop in central Seoul last Saturday afternoon.The duty free shop on the top floors was bursting with Chinese customers snatching up Prada and Louis Vuitton bags for which they have to pay extra taxes at home.Some 100,000 Chinese tourists, known as “youke” in Mandarin, are expected to stream into Korea during this week’s Labor Day holidays.The Chinese government reduced the number of offic