The audience had an exciting night, felt to every music and instrument with the YoungJoo Song Jazz group from Korea and the Rori band from the Wallonia - Brussels region (Belgium) on the evening of December 9 at Ngo Mon Square.

On December 1, the Provincial Center of Information Technology (HueCIT) coordinated with the SMC Hue Co., Ltd. and the Architecture and Urban Research Institute (AURI) (South Korea) to organize the 2nd International Forum themed "Hue - Information Technology - Promoting sustainable development".

On the afternoon of November 22, at Duyet Thi Duong Theater, Imperial City of Hue, Hue Monuments Conservation Center (HMCC) and National Gugak Center of South Korea signed a memorandum of cooperation and conducted a cultural exchange performance of court music between Vietnam and South Korea.

On the evening of November 22, the opening ceremony of an art exhibition on exchanging paintings by artists from Vietnam and South Korea, with the theme "Accompany", took place at Thieu Phuong Garden, Hue Imperial Citadel.

According to recent statistics on the tourism industry, the top 10 tourist markets to Hue were Taiwan, Malaysia, Spain, Australia, America, Thailand, England, Germany, France, and Korea.

The typical product of Ao Dai is one of the important elements making up the soul of the nation of Vietnam. Yet, for making Ao Dai truly a famous national brand name and a creative and cultural industry product, perhaps we still have to put in a lot of effort. What the Korean have done for their Hanbok is one of the good practices that we need to refer to.

Hue City aims to establish a smart tourism information infrastructure which is compatible with smart devices, contributing to ensuring a consistent management system and the utilization of cultural and tourism information among local organizations. This is the objective of the project to build a smart cultural and tourism Hue city, sponsored by KOICA (Korea International Cooperation Agency in Vietnam).

Along with the departure of a direct flight from Hue to South Korea, on August 1, the Provincial Department of Tourism coordinated with Vietjet Aviation Joint Stock Company, SMC Hue Co., Ltd (South Korea), Phu Bai International Airport; the Provincial Tourism Association, and related units to welcome the first direct flight, connecting Thua Thien Hue with Seoul City (South Korea). This is also the first flight from Incheon International Airport (South Korea) to the new terminal of Phu Bai International Airport.

The direct flight connecting Hue with Incheon (South Korea) will take off on July 31. Hue's tourism sector and many travel businesses are pooling efforts to seek opportunities to develop tourism and open the market for Korean tourists in particular and international tourists in general.

On March 20, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Le Truong Luu received H.E. Oh Youngju, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Korea to Vietnam.