{"id":58295,"date":"2026-06-05T17:43:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=58295"},"modified":"2026-06-05T17:43:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:43:59","slug":"china-south-korea-boost-commercial-flights-as-tourism-increases-between-the-2-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=58295","title":{"rendered":"China, South Korea boost commercial flights as tourism increases between the 2 countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/06\/05\/bddd5361-3b05-46fe-8f6e-1b9a4ce6dcc4_3a4a72ae.jpg?itok=sBL4WX5n&amp;v=1780650042\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">China and South Korea will allow 70 more flights per week between <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">the two countries<\/span> in view of fast-growing, two-way tourism and a drop in Chinese group travel to Japan.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in Seoul said in a statement Thursday that passenger flight capacity would grow from 608 to 664 per week and that maximum air freight flights would expand from 54 to 68 per week.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">These expansions, the first since before the Covid pandemic, <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">reflect a surge<\/span> in two-way tourism, analysts said.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In the first quarter of 2026, China led inbound travel to Korea with 1.4 million visitors, ahead of pre-pandemic numbers, the Korean travel research institute Yanolja found.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Some 2.66 million South Koreans visited China in the same quarter, up 24.1 per cent year on year, according to Chinese media reports.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">This year Seoul eased its rules for 10-year visas for Chinese nationals, while Koreans may <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">visit China<\/span> visa-free.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/global-economy\/article\/3356103\/china-south-korea-boost-commercial-flights-tourism-increases-between-2-countries?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China and South Korea will allow 70 more flights per week between the two countries in view of fast-growing, two-way tourism and a drop in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4840],"tags":[1889,832,8885,2819,4804,5548,1644,5246,5058],"class_list":["post-58295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-globetrotting","tag-boost","tag-china","tag-commercial","tag-countries","tag-flights","tag-increases","tag-korea","tag-south","tag-tourism","wpcat-4840-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}