About 8.23 million foreign tourists visited Seoul in the first half of this year, up more than 20 percent from the same period last year, while their credit card spending in the city climbed more than 50 percent to 5.62 trillion won ($3.42 billion) — setting records on both counts. "Both the number of tourists and the amount spent in the first half of this year broke all-time highs," a Seoul Metropolitan Government official said.
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