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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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Tireless efforts made to restore the names of fallen soldiers

Tireless efforts made to restore the names of fallen soldiers

In the central province of Quang Ngai, one of the localities with the largest number of unidentified war martyrs' graves, hundreds of officers, soldiers and specialists are pressing ahead with the nationwide 500-day campaign to collect biological samples and digitise grave records for DNA analysis, with the hope of restoring the names of those who sacrificed their lives for the nation.

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