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7,000 Youkers to have Samgyetang party at Han River Park

7,000 Youkers to have Samgyetang party at Han River Park

Posted May. 06, 2016 07:23,   

Updated May. 06, 2016 07:49

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A large group of some 7,000 Chinese tourists will be visiting Korea for their company-sponsored incentive trip by next Monday.

Scheduled to enter Korea on May 5 and 9, a first group of some 3,500 employees of Nanjing Joymain Science & Technology Development Co. (NJSTD) arrived Incheon International Airport on Thursday. First built in Nanjing in 1993, the company sells health and supplementary foods and visited Seoul and Jeju Island on the cruise tour in 2013.

The visit of the company’s employees is the largest of its kind who came to Korea via flight since 2011 when Baojian Group sent its 10,860 people to Korea. As many as 60 airplanes are bound to Korea to carry them. During the stay, they are staying in 16 different hotels in downtown Seoul. The Korea Tourism Organization expects that their visit would bring about direct and indirect economic ripple effect worth of some 49.5 billion Korean won (approx. 42.3 million U.S. dollars).

During their 5-day stay, the group is to visit Seoul and Gyeonggi Province. On the night of their second day on Friday, they will have Samgyetang party jointly prepared by Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs at Han River Park in Banpo. Some 4,000 servings of Samgyetang along with 4,000 of each canned beer, carbonated drink and red ginseng drink will be prepared. Five companies under the Korea Poultry Association will provide chicken for Samgyetang. On the venue, a concert will be held with singers, such as Gummy, K.Will and Lyn who sang original sound tracks for Korean drama “Descendants of the Sun.”

Prior to the concert, the tourists will go to “Panda World” at Everland in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province and watch Ai Bao (female) and Leo Bao (male), a pair of panda who left their Chinese home and had a new home in Korea in March. A present sent by Chinese President Xi Jinping, the pandas symbolize bilateral friendship between Korea and China. The large-scale visitors will also visit Imjingak Pavilion in Gyeonggi Province and Gyeongbok Palace, Myeongdong and Dongdaemun in Seoul.



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