The Tourism Administration has opened a new office in Busan.

The move is part of government efforts to draw visitors from southern South
Korea to Taiwan and push the number of Korean arrivals back to the levels
seen prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

During the opening ceremony, administration director-general Zhou Yong-hui
said the new office will provide tourism services and information for people
in the four southern Korean metropolitan areas and other southern provinces.

Zhou also said it's hoped the office can send Taiwan-Korea tourism exchanges
to new heights... by promoting Taiwan's culture, cruises, and special foods
to prospective visitors.

Data shows that some 550,000 South Korean residents visited Taiwan in the
first 10 months of this year - making it the third largest source of foreign
arrivals in Taiwan.

But that number is only about 65-per cent of what it was in 2019 in the last
full year before the pandemic, when there were 1.24 million visitors from
South Korea.