The number of foreigners visiting South Korea declined for the fourth straight month in June.
 
According to the Korea Tourism Organization on Tuesday, a total of 991-thousand-800 foreign tourists visited South Korea last month, down roughly 36 percent from the same period last year.
 
The drop resulted after the number of Chinese tourists plunged by roughly 66 percent to stand at only 254-thousand-900.
 
The number of Japanese tourists also slipped nearly seven percent year-on-year to stand at 167-thousand-700, posting a decline for the third consecutive month.
 
Tourism industries believe that tensions on the Korean Peninsula resulting from North Korea’s missile and nuclear provocations led to the drop in foreign tourists.
 
The number of tourists from Southeast Asian countries also fell, excluding Malaysian and Vietnamese tourists.
 
Meanwhile, the number of South Koreans who went on trips abroad surged 18 percent year-on-year in June to amount to some two-point-one million.
 
In the first half of this year, roughly 12-point-six million South Koreans left the country for overseas trips. That’s up nearly 19 percent from the same period last year.