ROK to waive visa requirement for Vietnamese tourists during 2018 PyeongChang Olympic
Tuesday, 23/01/2018 16:06 (GMT+7)
From January 22nd to April 30th, the Republic of Korea will exempt Vietnamese tourists from visa requirement if visiting the country in groups of five or more under tours of designated travel companies with return flights from Vietnam to Yangyang International Airport.
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According to representative office of Korea Tourism Organization in Vietnam, the policy has been approved by the Ministry of Justice of the RoK to attract international visitors to the country on the occasion of the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics and Paralympic Winter Games at PyeongChang, Jeongseon and Gangneung cities in Gangwon province.
Together with Vietnam, tourists from the Philippines and Indonesia will also benefit from the policy.
Accordingly, the visas called PyeongChang Olympic No B-2-94 have a maximum stay of 15 days. The designated travel companies register information and list groups of tourists entering through the Korea visa portal at https://www.visa.go.kr/.
Vietnam is among the markets seeing the highest tourist growth in the RoK. In 2017, the land of kimchi greeted more than 323,000 tourist arrivals from Vietnam, a year-on-year rise of 28.8%./.
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