China Travel Clampdown Empties South Korea's Myeongdong

Myeongdong, a downtown Seoul shopping district typically packed with tourists, was unusually quiet on Wednesday. For the last few years, the area has drawn an unending torrent ofChinese [https://www.si.re.kr/node/50950]tourists. Most street signs and signboards are written in Korean and Chinese — sometimes only in the latter. But in recent weeks, the sound of spoken Chinese has grown quieter. On Wednesday, cosmetic shop touts in Myeongdong called out promotional phrases in Chinese here and ther