Hong Kong travel agencies adjust tour plans amid South Korean protests
Thousands of protesters recently gathered in Seoul following failed attempt to arrest impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol last week
Steve Huen Kwok-chuen, executive director of EGL Tours, said on Monday that while the political uncertainty had not had a substantial impact on the tours his company organised, changes to the schedules had been made.
“We skip some places that we used to visit if protests have broken out,” he said, referring to areas in Seoul near the Office of the President in Yongsan district and the Sungnyemun Gate in Jung district, where demonstrators had previously gathered and held rallies.
“Customers all understood the changes to the itineraries and we so far have not received any complaints from them,” Huen said, adding that two of his company’s tour groups had just come back to Hong Kong.
Tour groups to the country planned for the rest of the month would depart as usual, he said.
South Korea has been in political turmoil since early December, when the now-suspended President Yoon Suk-yeol decreed martial law, only to reverse the decision six hours later. He was later impeached and prosecutors tried to arrest him last week, only to be rebuffed by his security forces.
