Changes. Commodifying?

The changes that have been brought about by the growth of tourism in the country.

Growth of tourism have indeed brought changes to South Korea. In terms of economy wise, it have certainly boost up the economy of South Korea because of the increase of tourism receipt. After all, tourists are always the one that spent the most in the country because they had to spend from accommodation to eating to shopping and many more. In addition, with the Korean pop fever going on, fans will come flooding into the country to support their idols whenever they are having concerts. One example is the JYJ’s Worldwide concert in Seoul which attracted 3,000 fans all over the world and generated a total revenue of USD$800millions.

Besides that, with more tourists coming into the country, better infrastructures and facilities have to be built in order to fulfill their needs and also to attract them. When building infrastructure for tourism purpose, conflicts between the locals and the governments might appear. Reason being the locals might feel that the tourists are taking over them and they feel unfair. This is the time when government have to decide whether they wanted to have the land for tourism or for the benefits of the locals. However on the other hand, with better facilities been built, the locals can also enjoy the benefits and might even create convenience to them. An example would be the building of roads for easy access for the tourists, the locals can also make use of the roads to gain easy and fast access to another place. Furthermore, more jobs will be create for the locals because the government would need people to help them build the facilities.

Growth of tourism might ended up making the locals’ attitude towards tourists dropped to the stage of annoyance, whereby they do not welcome tourists. Too much tourists in the country might not be a good thing because they will be snatching facilities with the locals, especially at places that are shared among them like the beaches etc.



Tourism has been a culprit in commodifying cultures and traditions?

To a certain extend, tourism has been a culprit in commodifying cultures and traditions. This is because nowadays more and more people making use of their culture’s unique dance that might be meant for festival or religion purpose to perform infront of the tourists in order to earn money out of them. When time goes by, the dance will loses it uniqueness because it is now perform anytime and not fully for the festival or religion purpose.

Also, due to having in contact with the tourists from other countries, one might loses it cultures and traditions because they were influence by what the tourists said to them or because it is commonly seen around them, therefore they adopt the tourist’s norms and cultures etc and slowly forget about their own cultures or even mix it together with their own culture till they cannot differentiate the original culture of theirs.

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