(MENAFN) Data showed that South Korea's overseas travel spending hit a record-high in the second quarter of this year, The Peninsula Qatar reported.
According to data compiled by the Korea Tourism Organization, South Koreans spent USD5 billion in the April-June period, up 19.6 percent from USD4.2 trillion year-on-year.
The second-quarter figure broke the previous quarterly record of USD4.5 billion tallied in the first three months of this year, the data showed.
In June alone, overseas travel spending totaled USD1.7 billion, also setting a new monthly record, according to Yonhap news agency.
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