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[mr_thehorse]

[Jane]

Don't worry; this slogan will last until Christmas until they figure out it's doesn't mean anything and decide on a new one.
Incidentally, Korea Tourism counts all transfer passengers at Incheon as 'visitors'. So someone who sets foot in the country for, say, 4 hours and stays in the airport waiting for their connecting flight, is considered a visitor.

To give you a fair comparison as to how this slogan fairs with past slogans, one of the first slogans was: "Korea--Land of Human Being". As least their spelling is correct.

[cj1976]

I feel for the people who are charged with luring tourists to Korea. There really is not much for tourists to see or do that isn't far better in surrounding countries. It is quite unfortunately sandwiched between two larger and much more interesting countries - that also provides a large share of annual tourists to Korea.
If my friends in the UK were going to shell out for a trip to the Far East, I would not recommend Korea.

[Chaparrastique]

[le-paul]

[Drew345]

Reminds me of a promotional poster I saw for Bangladesh recently (in a restaurant in Thailand).

"Bangladesh, come before the tourists do."

[Weigookin74]

[Squire]

My entry for the slogan competition didn't win then

'Korea: Fighting!'

(the logo was a picture of two harabojis, faces blurred, grappling outside a convenience store)

[cdninkorea]

[metalhead]

Ugly cities, rude people, bad weather, not good shopping, American chains everywhere.

Good for drinking, good if you like K-pop and Korean dramas. Maybe okay if you have an interest in the Korean War, some okay beaches and islands, good plastic surgery options.

I don't know, for me the biggest drawback is the crowds and the rude people in Korea (not all Koreans, but enough of them to ruin things). Besides Seoul and Busan no other cities are worth a visit, Namhae is nice for the beach but otherwise far too boring, the all-night drinking is fun depending on the people you are with, hunting down second-hand record stores is challenging but worth it I think, some of the food is good, otherwise I can't see the draw for tourists, not with S-E Asia, China and Japan being so close. I'm not sure why I sometimes see people saying that the clothes shopping in Korea is good, the sizes are all whack and the options are limited. I guess Korea is like the Romania of Asia, would be interesting to see but no real desire to do so when there are better and more interesting countries nearby.

[cj1976]