외국인 관광객 평균 150만원 지출... 전년 대비 12.1% 감소<br /><br />The average amount of money spent in South Korea by foreign tourists has decreased steadily over the past year. <br /> According to research by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Tourism Organization,... foreign tourists spent an average of 13-hundred U.S. dollars per trip in the first quarter of this year.<br />That's a twelve percent drop compared to the same period last year,... and the fourth straight quarterly decline.<br />Industry insiders attribute the fall to Beijing's ban on Chinese group tours to South Korea following Seoul's deployment of a U.S. missile defense system. <br />
