The number of Chinese visitors to South Korea soared 46 percent from a year ago to 6.33 million people last year, the South Korean Embassy in Beijing said Tuesday.
The surge was fueled by a growing popularity of Korean pop music and TV dramas and a gradual appreciation of the Chinese currency, embassy officials said.
Last year, the number of South Korean visitors to China, excluding Hong Kong and Macau, grew 3.6 percent from a year earlier to 4.1 million people, the embassy said in a statement.
To further enhance people-to-people exchanges between the two nations, South Korea and China set this year as "The Year of Visit to Korea" and next year as "The Year of Visit to China." (Yonhap)
