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Article: Davao City eyed as site of plush Korean village.(Tourism)
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- Manila Bulletin
- Article date:
- April 6, 2006
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Big Korean travel agents and tourism investors are eyeing Davao City as the site of a high-end Korean residential vacation complex complete with school and hospital facilities.
Vice chairman Jon Kim of the Korean Tourism Association said they would prefer a site near a golf course where they could play, and a beach to where they could escape the harsh Korean winter from November to February.
"Koreans work hard the rest of the year to prepare themselves for winter and go to countries with warm climate," explained another Korean businessman Bong H. Kim, president and chief executive officer of Hanwha Tour Mall Co. Ltd.
"And the Philippines has ...