I live in Seoul, a capital city of Korea. Seoul is massive city, and it’s one of the most high-tech cities in the world. Its infrastructures, such as internet and public transportation, are so abundant that even Boston, which is well known city in the USA, said they consider Seoul as a blueprint of the future Boston. However, compare to its abundant infra, its tourist market is dull even though there are so many cultural heritages in Seoul. To be more successful city and more over, to be an advanced country, we have to develop our tourist market.
First of all, we have to develop Seoul as a famous tourist place. Our investment for the tourist market has a problem. We have four palaces which are so beautiful in our city. However, a profit from tourist market is even a deficit; however, Ching-dao, which is also big city in China, earned more than 10% of GDP from tourist market in 2006. We have to figure out what makes foreigners visit to Ching-dao, instead of Seoul. Also, if lots of tourists visit our city periodically, it’s going to vitalize our local economy. For example, when people visit Seoul, they have to spent money to sleep, eat and sightsee. Then, they will need more hotel and service, so there will be less unemployment rate and economic stagnation.
Also, developing tourist market is one way to advertise our country. We need to advertise our country because there are still so many people who don’t even know where the Korea is. For instance, I met a lawyer from England last month, and she didn’t know where Korea is. She even believed that Korea is located near Middle East, which is a joke that I made. If people don’t know about Korea, they won’t prefer to buy products made in Korea. It can cause economic stagnation for Korea, and it eventually causes a problem for our city. Above all, when people imagine foreign country, they don’t imagine the country by the image of the whole country, but by the image of the city which is well known. For example, when we imagine the USA, we summon the image of busy New York City or beautiful San Francisco. We need to make people think Seoul is great city so that they think Korea is great as well.
It’s so obvious what we have to do. We have been wasting our abundant cultural property for a long time. Our city has international competitiveness. If we solve the problem that we have in the tourist marker, we can make our city and our country better.
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