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Korean Tourism Festival coming soon to HCM City

The Korean Tourism Organisation (KTO) of the Republic of Koreais hosting a Korean Tourism and Culture Festival in Ho Chi Minh City on September 28 and 29, seeking to promote cultural and tourism exchanges between the two countries.

Both Vietnamese and RoK firms will participate in the two-day event at Nguyen Hue walking street in the city downtown.

Thirty pavilions at the festival will feature various themes from K-Style to popular tourist attractions in the RoK.

Visitors will have chances to try traditional Korean garments, make decorative items and join music and art performances of famous Vietnamese and RoK artists.

Singers and bands like Noo Phuoc Thinh, Gfriend and Snuper will perform at the event’s opening ceremony.

Heads of KTO offices in six Southeast Asian countries will discuss tourism source markets in Southeast Asia at a conference held during the festival.
Last year the RoK received more than 460,000 visitors from Vietnam, up 30 percent year-on-year.

As of September this year, the number was up 25 percent year-on-year to more than 409,000, and is expected to exceed 585,000 during the full year.
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Key Party leader calls for effective implementation of policies to drive Da Nangs sustainable development

Key Party leader calls for effective implementation of policies to drive Da Nang’s sustainable development

Politburo member and Standing Member of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee’s Secretariat Tran Cam Tu on October 12 called for stronger policy implementation, administrative reform and more effective mobilisation of development resources to help Da Nang city achieve rapid and sustainable growth and improve people’s living standards.

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