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There must be a lot of people going abroad this Lunar New Year holiday.

Japan is a popular destination in Korea these days.

This is because the yen is cheap and there are no visa restrictions.

In Japan, Seoul was also chosen as the most desirable travel destination.



Correspondent Park Sang-jin from Tokyo.



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Eunhye Kim, an office worker, decided to go to Tokyo as her first overseas travel destination after COVID-19.



This is because travel is cheap and close with the recent low yen, and there are no visa restrictions.



[Kim Eun-hye/Japanese tourist: I haven't been here for 3 years, but I came here, so I bought a ticket and came to Japan.

There are more things to shop than in Korea...

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I was surprised to hear Korean spoken throughout the destination.



[Kim Eun-hye/Japanese tourist: I think there are so many.

If you look to the side, there are many Koreans, and you can hear Korean from behind, or if half Japanese are half Korean, isn't it



? 890,000, or 3 out of 10 foreigners entering Japan.



In Japan, as the destination I most want to visit, Seoul took first place for the first time in 11 years, and Busan, which was not even on the list last year, ranked fourth.



[I want to go to Korea.

It's cold (in winter), but the food is delicious...

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In June of last year, when the Korean government resumed issuance of tourist visas for Japanese people, people stayed up all night in front of the consulate, and in December of last year, among foreigners who visited Korea, the largest proportion was Japanese.



[Deputy Director Kang Hee-joo/Korea Tourism Organization, Tokyo Governor: As the popularity of Korean dramas and K-pop has increased, it seems that there has been a lot of desire to go to Korea.

That's when the visa is released...

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Although it is not easy to improve relations between Korea and Japan over current issues such as compensation for forced labor during the Japanese occupation, demand for travel, which had been suppressed in both countries due to the short distance and relatively less burdensome, is gathering.



(Video coverage: Han Cheol-min · Moon Hyun-jin)