Korean workers to stick to domestic travel

Less than 10 percent of salaried Koreans intend to spend their summer vacation abroad this year, a survey said Sunday. The survey of 600 people by the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry comes amid soaring inflationary pressure and global economic uncertainties from possible insolvency of the governments of the United States and several European countries. About 9.6 percent of the respondents said they will go abroad while the rest said they will stay in the country during this year's summer vacation, the survey said, without elaborating. As many as 40.6 percent said they had spent their summer vacations abroad to enrich their experience. Nearly half of those surveyed (46.1 percent) said their companies have already changed or have plans to change employees' programs for overseas vacation with the aim of boosting domestic consumption.