Last week, Korea welcomed its ten millionth tourist with a ceremony at Incheon International Airport. Tourism in Korea has grown exponentially in recent years, partly due to the improvement of tourism policies and the measures taken by the government to make travel around the peninsula more convenient for foreigners. Still, there’s a more obvious catalyst …
Thanks to Psy and the constant replay of Gangnam Style (which was recently just declared the second most watched video on YouTube EVER), the world now knows that there’s much more to Korea than kimchi and electronics companies. Finally, westerners are seeing this other, hipper side of the country that Korea’s neighbors discovered long ago. …