Arrivals from S. Korea to Sabah up by almost 9,500%, says Liew


KOTA KINABALU: South Koreans topped the number of international visitor arrivals to Sabah between January and April, said the state’s Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Christina Liew.

Disclosing statistics from the Sabah Tourism Board’s (STB) Research Division, she said STB recorded 68,685 South Korean travellers to Sabah compared to just 720 arrivals during the same period last year.

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