Provincial News North Jeolla to recommend eateries for tourists

By Ko Dong-hwan

North Jeolla province has launched a campaign to attract foreign tourists ― by recommending choice restaurants.

The regional government is accepting applications from those who want their eateries included.

The restaurants must offer good food, kind service, tables with chairs, clean kitchens, halls, and lavatories.

The establishments also must be able to serve 80 or more visitors at the same time, have parking lots and no records of business suspension for the past two years. Menus do not matter.

The government is accepting applications until this Friday.

Selected restaurants will be given special signs and will be promoted on government websites and in booklets.

The move is expected to reduce the nation’s chronic habit of overcharging foreign tourists and improve visitors’ impressions of Korean restaurants.