South Korea helps promote Bali tourism

South Korea helps promote Bali tourism

DENPASAR, Bali: A team from South Korea's Seoul Broadcasting
Service (SBS) is currently filming a 20-episode television
series on the resort island of Bali in an effort to promote
cultural ties between the two nations.

"The project also aims at projecting the island's image as a
safe tourist destination," the press and culture attache of the
South Korean Embassy, Kim Sang Sool, said here on Thursday.

He said the series was expected to assist the recovery of
Bali's tourism, which has suffered great losses due to the Oct.
12, 2002 bombings that killed at least 202 people, mostly
foreigners.

Moreover, the filming is one way to show the film community's
resistance to global terrorist threats, he added.

"Although the threats of terrorism are still hovering in the
air, we are not afraid nor intimidated. We will continue filming
this series," Sool stressed. --JP