Pressing the elevator close button repeatedly until the doors shut and sticking your hand into the vending machine’s retrieval slot while waiting for your product—these are said to be traits of the fast-paced Korean. Being slow is simply intolerable. After
This article is based on an interview with Mihyun Jung, CEO of Bit-nargo, an eco-friendly cultural planning company and a preliminary social enterprise based in Gangwon Province. Please introduce yourself and tell us about ‘Bit-nargo’. I am Mihyun Jung, the
This article is based on an interview with Team Leader Kyungsook Kim of the Tourism Marketing and Festival Team, Tourism Department, Economic and Tourism Bureau, Sokcho City Hall. Please introduce yourself and tell us about the work you are currently
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This article is based on an interview with Hyunchul Shin, Head of the Regional Tourism Team at the Jeju Tourism Organization’s Tourism Industry Division. Please introduce KaReum Stay. “KaReum Stay” is a word combining the Jeju dialect term ‘Gareum (Kareum)’,
Travel in the Climate Crisis Era — still an Unfinished Assignment Since the end of COVID-19, there has been growing emphasis on the need to transform systems across all areas of human activity to align with the realities of the
The 29th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP 29) designated tourism as a special theme for the first time in the history of the conference. It hosted the inaugural ministerial meeting
In South Korea, “Climate Change Week” is observed annually, beginning on April 22, Earth Day. The event is hosted by the Ministry of Environment and runs for one week. This year’s slogan was, “Our carbon-neutral lifestyle—actually, we love it!” However,
Airplanes can take us to the other side of the world in just half a day—but not without a significant cost. In addition to expensive airfare, flying releases a large amount of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Concerned about the