KTO recruits college student travel writers

The Korea Tourism Organization is recruiting 70 college students to write travel stories about various places in Korea. As part of efforts to promote unknown spots in the country, the KTO plans to use groups of college students who are interested in travel and good at using social networking sites.

Those who are selected are required to write travel stories, create short video clips on the destinations they are writing about and promote the places online through Twitter and Facebook.

They will be offered a budget that can allow them to travel around the country and those with excellent performances will receive an award.

The application is open until March 17 at http://korean.visitkorea.or.kr.

(wylee@heraldcorp.com)