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Jin Air, the low-cost airline operated by Korean Air, netted 7.8 billion won in profit, up 256 percent YoY in the first half, tops among the low-cost air carriers in Korea with first-half revenue totaling 119.5 billion won, the company said.The low-cost air carrier also announced its Butterfly Point¡¦
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Taipan, Millennium Seoul Hilton¡¯ s Chinese restaurant, will spotlight the alluring and eclectic cuisine of Macau during the month of July. A unique blend of Chinese and Portuguese flavours and cooking styles, the food of Macau is exciting and vibrant, just like the people, who definitely have¡¦
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he following is an interview with Exec. Director Kang Sung-ghil of the Korea MICE Bureau of the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO). In it he discusses various plans that the KTO and Seoul City, the co-hosts of the 2012 Korea MICE Expo, have to boost the MICE Industry in Korea as a professional global ¡¦
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Millennium Seoul Hilton is getting in gear for the summer. For the months of July and August, several of Millennium Seoul Hilton¡¯s restaurants will be featuring a variety of summer foods designed to refresh you, keep you cool, and restore your energy as you endure the hottest months of summer in Se¡¦
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Approximately 400 travel industry officials from Korea and abroad assembled in Seoul to offer business consultation opportunities in the Korean inbound tourism industry at the Korea International Travel Mart 2012 (KITM 2012), which opened on June 7 in Seoul for a five-day run. KITM 2012, held a¡¦
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Asiana Airlines will launch additional flights to Hawaii, Seattle, and other North American destinations from July 10 to cope with the bulging number of vacationers during the summer. The airline had originally scheduled to start the new flights on July 21, the air carrier said recently.The air carr¡¦
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The government plans to nurture the domestic content industry to step up the momentum of hallyu, better known as the Korean Wave. In this regard, it will establish the tentatively-named Story Creation Institute, designed to explore stories, a driving force behind the domestic content industry, as we¡¦
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Hong Ju-min, secretary-general of the Visit Korea Committee, said the Korea Grand Sale tourism promotion campaign conducted by the Visit Korea Committee this year to attract foreign tourists during the off-season resulted in 34.5 billion won in sales, triple that of last year, with the number of par¡¦
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A photo of a jumbo passenger jet plane in service at Asiana Airlines, which plans to import more of such super passenger jets including six A380s in 2014.Asiana Airlines has designated its management theme as ¡°new creation and creative reform¡± in a bid to sustain its growth for a t¡¦
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Sixteen city and provincial governments have agreed to share strategies to attract 11 million foreign visitors during this year and improve tourism preparedness as well as beef up cooperation with the central government.Some 40 people, including Shin Yong-un, director general of the Tourism Industry¡¦
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(From left) Toyota Tsusho President & CEO Toshimitsu Imai, Circular Economy Division COO Masaharu Katayama, LG Energy Solution CSO Kang Chang-beom and LG Energy Solution CEO Kim Dong-myung pose for a photo at a JV signing ceremony on June 19. (Ph¡¦
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Models introduce Samsung Electronics¡¯ Galaxy S25 Edge, a category-defining slim smartphone joining the Galaxy S series, which went on sale in Korea from May 23. (Photo: Samsung Electronics)Samsung Electronics on May 13 revealed the full specificatio¡¦
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LG Chem Vice Chairman & CEO Shin Hak-cheol. (Photos: LG Chem)LG Chem announced on May 8 that it had hosted the Zemi-CONNECT Global symposium in Bangkok, Thailand, gathering over 120 endocrinologists from Korea, Thailand, and the Philippines. ¡¦
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Chairman Cho Won-tae of Hanjin Business Group. (Photo: Korean Air)Chairman Cho Won-tae of Hanjin Business Group, concurrently CEO of Korean Air, said, ¡°Korea¡¯s next government should prioritize ways of protecting the Korean aviation industry from t¡¦
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