KTO statistics show more than 511,000 Vietnamese travelers visited the RoK last year, representing a year-on-year rise of 21.7% and equivalent to 92.4% of the overall number of Vietnamese tourists traveling to the RoK in 2019, the period before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out.

As a result, Vietnam ranked second in Southeast Asia in terms of the number of visitors to the RoK, after the Philippines at 515,000 arrivals.

Meanwhile, the RoK was Vietnam's largest source of international tourists last year, with about 4.56 million arrivals. 

The KTO pledged that it would continue to support its partners in Vietnam to improve the quality of tours and strive to diversify tourism products in order to bring more memorable Korean trips to Vietnamese tourists.

The RoK has also devised plans to host a large number of spring festivals until June, providing many opportunities for Vietnamese tourists to experience Korean culture.

Park Eun Jung, head of KTO in Vietnam, said that with diverse tourism activities, the RoK will be a wonderful destination for many Vietnamese tourists to come and enjoy nice memories. She also expressed hope that tourism activities between the two countries would flourish in the year ahead.

Vietnam is a popular destination for Korean tourists during Chuseok holiday

VOV.VN - Vietnam is one of the favourite destinations overseas for tourists from the Republic of Korea during Chuseok holiday - a major mid-autumn harvest festival and a three-day holiday in Korea celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month of the year.