Aussie tourists are among the foreigners still happy to travel to South Korea, despite recent tension with the North. Picture: AFP / KIM JAE-HWAN Source: AFP
THE US says North Korea is preparing for an imminent ballistic missile test, but that hasn't stopped Aussie budget travellers snapping up cheap flights to Seoul.
Last month Scoot airlines launched a service from Coolangatta to the South Korean capital of Seoul and Aussie adventure seekers have snapped up all discount seats for the first and most for the second month, The Gold Coast Bulletin reports.
There are few seats available on the route from May 29, the day the service kicks off, until the end of the following month.
MORE MISSILE LAUNCHERS DETECTED IN NORTH KOREA.
And travellers now need to pay as much as $665.23 a person if they want to fly economy class with the low-cost carrier in June to Seoul.
An online search of rival Air Asia X shows flights to South Korea remain popular with travellers with few discount seats available.
South Korean activists hold a banner showing pictures of South Korean President Park Geun-Hye and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, during a rally urging regular operations of the Kaesong joint industrial complex on the road leading to North Korea at a military checkpoint in the border city of Paju. Picture: AFP/ JUNG YEON-JE
This comes despite North Korea telling foreigners that they should prepare to evacuate and issuing warnings about the possible "thermonuclear war" that could be on the way.
Korean politics expert Professor Andrew O'Neil, who will visit South Korea next week, said he was not surprised others were going ahead with trips as some had a blase attitude to the situation due to the region's long history of conflict.
"There has been trouble over there since the 1950s," he said. "So it is difficult for people to know when it is really serious."
Read more about Aussie travellers snapping up cheap flights to Korea despite warning in The Gold Coast Bulletin.
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