Chinese Tourists Go Shopping In South Korea Has The Biggest Headache.

Foreign media said the South Korean Chamber of Commerce and Industry issued a survey of Chinese and Japanese tourists shopping in Korea.

The result shows that Chinese tourists feel the most inconvenient in shopping is "language barrier" (57.3%), while Japanese tourists say that "peddlers sell strongly" (29.3%) is unpleasant.

According to the Yonhap news website on May 7th, the survey focused on the 150 tourists in China and Japan.

In addition to language barrier, Chinese tourists also pointed out that "lack of shopping guide cards" (34%), "traffic inconvenience" (21.3%), "high price" (17.3%) and other inconvenient matters.

For Japanese tourists, apart from the phenomenon of strong sellers, "language barrier" (22.7%), "lack of shopping guide cards" (21.3%) and "poor service attitude of the salesmen" (16.7%) make them feel inconvenient when shopping.

The South Korean Chamber of Commerce and industry has said that there are many businessmen who speak Japanese in Ming Dong and South Gate, but Chinese tourists have increased by nearly 2 times in the past 5 years, and businessmen who can receive them are far from enough.

In the past 5 years, the number of Chinese immigration personnel has increased by 34.1% annually, reaching 4 million 330 thousand people last year and catching up with the Japanese for the first time.

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There are some differences between tourists and Japanese tourists in terms of tourist routes, shopping locations and payment methods.

Ming Dong is the shopping area most commonly visited by Chinese tourists and Japanese tourists.

But the area that Chinese tourists often visit is the east gate, while Japanese tourists are the south gate.

According to the analysis of the Korean commerce and Industry Conference, after buying clothes and cosmetics in Ming Dong, Chinese tourists usually go to the East Gate area where the medicinal materials market is densely concentrated, while Japanese tourists purchase Porphyra and dried fish mainly before the south gate.

From the purchase items, Chinese tourists mainly buy cosmetics.

And Chinese herbal medicines. Japanese tourists mainly buy clothes, cosmetics, laver and dried fish.

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Venues, Chinese tourists like to shop at duty-free shops in the urban areas, followed by department stores and airport duty-free shops, while Japanese prefer to shop in small stores, followed by urban duty-free shops and department stores.

From the point of view of payment means, Chinese tourists have 75.3% credit card purchases, while 67.3% of Japanese tourists pay in cash.