Annual foreign visitor arrivals; M visitors, selected years 2019–2024.
South Korea received 16.37M foreign visitors in 2024. That was up 48.4% from 2023 and equal to about 94% of the 2019 total. The selected series also includes the 2021 travel trough and the 2023 recovery level. All four observations come from the same Korea Tourism Organization source family.
Source 1: Inbound visitor arrivals and spending
Publisher: Korea Tourism Organization
Dataset/table: Korea tourism statistics
Evidence: Supports the arrival totals for 2019-2024, the 48.4% growth and record spending.
The selected points show the pre-pandemic high, pandemic trough and subsequent recovery.
Compare annual foreign visitor arrivals from Korea Tourism Organization for the selected years 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2024.
All four observations use Korea Tourism Organization and the same visitor-arrival definition.
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