I like the Korea Tourism Organization. Really, I do — they do an admirable job in a tough situation. But ponder this for a second:
The head of the nation’s tourism body said that Korea will be able to help underdeveloped countries improve their tourism industry based on Korea’s experience, if he becomes the chief of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO).
Now, as a nation that went from Third World shit hole to economic powerhouse in just half a century, Korea has a lot it can teach the developing world.
But even when the KTO’s own survey put Korea as Asia’s least attractive tourist destination not called Taiwan, one wonders what experience the KTO head is referring to.
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“Bangladesh, Sparkling”
But even when the KTO’s own survey put Korea as Asia’s least attractive tourist destination not called Taiwan, one wonders what experience the KTO head is referring to.
Korea brings in $5.8 billion in tourism, #35 in the world.
Maybe “underdeveloped countries” that don’t have a Great Wall, Grand Canyon, Big Ben and so on can benefit from the experience of someone whose country managed to chalk up a respectable amount of tourism from little more than old buildings and barely adequate skiing and being next door to Japan.
Don’t focus on the rankings too much. That’s for mothers sending their kids to college.
How much of that $5.8 billion are from gyopos visiting relatives?
ROFLMAO.
This is the guy who recently nearly torpedoed the biggest business convention ever to come to Korea (20,000 attendees next Spring) by insisting (as a condition of various supporting initiatives requested by the sponsor to ameliorate Korea’s deficiencies as a host nation, e.g., the serious shortfall in the number of available hotel rooms of suitable quality, especially anywhere near the only feasible venue @ Kintex) that the senior home office executives of the sponsoring foreign company show up 12,000 miles away in Korea to attend a press conference scheduled by him and then: (i) showed up 30 minutes late for his own press conference; (2) peremptorily ordered that no translation be made of his remarks (in the interest of saving time so he could get to his next meeting on time); then, among other things, proceeded to misrepresent the number of anticipated attendees by inflating the number by 50% and otherwise drop the ball by demonstrating in response to local reporters’ questions an embarrassing lack of familiarity with the facts of matter, for which he then had the typical Korean effrontery to blame on the questioners themselves whom he accused of not providing him with the facts that he could simply confirm. The senior executives of the sponsoring company were not favorably impressed; and the only reason the event is going forward is because of the efforts of the local subsidiary of the sponsor (and, to give credit where it is due, the tourism officials of Gyeonggi-do and Seoul City) to overcome another self-inflicted shot in the foot by ROKGOV. Korea Sparkling! Maybe the Peter Principle was really discovered in Korea as the Kim Principle.
Korea better than Taiwan? A common misperception of the ignorant masses. Korea: Fillet of Seoul
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