Tourism industry to continue to suffer as THAAD issue remains unresolved
Jul 9, 2017
The tourism industry here is expected to continue to suffer from plunging revenues and a record-breaking cross-border deficit due to a lack of progress made between the leaders of South Korea and China over the THAAD dispute.Between March and May, the number of Chinese tourists in Korea plunged to 841,952, down 57.7 percent from the last year’s 1.98 million, according to the Korea Tourism Organization’s data Sunday.Of the total number of tourists that visited Korea in 2016, 46.8 percent or 8 mil