Chinese tourists People April 9 hearing, according to South Korea, "Central Daily" message, released by the Ministry of Korean Embassy consular visa issuance statistics show that from January to March this year, South Korean visit visa applications increased by 45.1% over last year , 56 thousand visas issued during this period.

Reported that from January to March this year, is the Korean drama "You come from the stars," enjoyed the highest popularity in China time, thus prompting the visa number soared. South Korean Embassy official said, "so even lead to a massive increase in some areas not enough manpower."

Statistics said that the Korean wave hotter place visa issuance rate is higher, compared to Beijing, Guangzhou and other big cities, "from the stars you" or higher in popularity from inland cities closer to the eastern coastal city of South Korea, and therefore responsible for inland areas of Hunan and Hubei provinces, such as the maximum rate of increase in visa Korean Consulate General in Wuhan, was 213.3 percent last year. Relatively close distance of the Korean coastal city of Dalian (108.2%), Qingdao (94.1%) and Shanghai (62.5%) of the rate of increase is relatively high. In addition, the rapid increase in economic exchanges with South Korea recently issued by the Consul General of the rate of increase in Xi'an high as 90.7%. In contrast, in the "From the stars you" relatively low popularity of Beijing, the issue of the rate of increase of only 30%.

Hallyu wave correlation with the number of Chinese tourists in the statistics of the Korea Tourism Organization has also been confirmed. Korea Tourism Organization statistics show that between January to March visit to South Korea in China up to 1.03 million tourists, an increase of 43 percent over last year. Among them, the female visitors than male visitors, a ratio of 6:4.