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The number of foreign visitors to the former presidential compound, Cheong Wa Dae, has surpassed 600-thousand since it opened to the public in May 2022.
According to the Cheong Wa Dae Foundation on Monday, out of the six-point-38 million visitors, 600-thousand, or about nine percent, were foreign nationals.
While some one-thousand-600 foreigners toured the complex in May 2022, the number was about 57-thousand in September this year.
The proportion of foreign visitors has seen a gradual increase, accounting for 29-point-one percent of all visitors as of last month.
Of all the foreign visitors, 45-point-four percent were individual visitors.