{"id":11120,"date":"2008-04-25T02:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T02:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/korea-calling-travelling-gourmets-shopaholics-and-cultural-heritage-fans-2\/"},"modified":"2008-04-25T02:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T02:37:00","slug":"korea-calling-travelling-gourmets-shopaholics-and-cultural-heritage-fans-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2008\/04\/korea-calling-travelling-gourmets-shopaholics-and-cultural-heritage-fans-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Korea calling Travelling Gourmets, Shopaholics and Cultural Heritage Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.travmedia.com\/images\/db\/122092.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travmedia.com\/images\/db\/122092.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Travelling gourmets, shopaholics and Korean cultural heritage fans can<br \/>learn how to best enjoy the country through new publications recently<br \/>released by Korea Tourism Organization.<\/p>\n<p> Korean cuisine has been named in a recent survey as the number one<br \/>reason for foreign visitors to travel to Korea.  A new brochure \u2013<br \/>Great Tastes of Korea is a restaurant guide to the best restaurants in<br \/>the country.  Together with the Wonderful World of Korean Food which<br \/>introduces Korean cuisine in detail with recipes for the national dish<br \/>kimchi and much more, these two guides are a very helpful for<br \/>travelling gourmets.<\/p>\n<p> Shopping is very high on the list of priorities for many visitors to<br \/>Korea.  The Korea Shopping Guide will help visitors to decide the best<br \/>shopping districts, and where to shop all day and all night if they<br \/>wish.  Bargains abound in high fashion and ready made clothing, sports<br \/>goods, electronics, leather jackets and handbags, fashion jewellery,<br \/>beautiful arts and crafts, Korean traditional furniture and unique<br \/>souvenirs.  From fashion designer shopping streets to traditional<br \/>markets to Techno Electronics Mart Korea is a shopper&#8217;s paradise.<\/p>\n<p> For cultural heritage enthusiasts to Korea the brochure UNESCO World<br \/>Heritages in Korea details the great number of sights included on the<br \/>UNESCO World Heritage List.<\/p>\n<p>From megalithic ruins and ancient tombs to grand palaces and secluded<br \/>temples, a great number of sights and time-honoured traditions of<br \/>Korea have been designated as World Heritages. Also included are Korea<br \/>World Natural Heritages like the Lava Caves of Jeju Island off the<br \/>south coast of Korea.  Over 120 lava caves are scattered around Jeju<br \/>Island, the maze of caves forms a 4,480 metre chain of caverns beneath<br \/>the island.<\/p>\n<p> Contact Korea Tourism Organization Sydney office to request any the listed brochures.<br \/>Email:  visitkorea@knto.org.au or Phone:  02)9252-4147\/8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travelling gourmets, shopaholics and Korean cultural heritage fans canlearn how to best enjoy the country through new publications recentlyreleased by Korea Tourism Organization. Korean cuisine has been named in a recent survey as the number onereason for foreign visitors to travel to Korea. A new brochure \u2013Great Tastes of Korea is a restaurant guide to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}