{"id":834894,"date":"2026-07-31T04:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/834894\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T04:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:21:14","slug":"japans-golf-courses-swing-big-for-south-korean-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/834894\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s golf courses swing big for South Korean guests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/1\/3.jpeg\" alt=\"20260727 Ibaraki Golf\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">South Korean golfers arrive at Ibaraki Airport, northeast of Tokyo,\u00a0on June 29. Local courses are betting on such visitors to drive up business. (All photos by Yuki Kohara)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japan&#8217;s golf courses are aiming to score big with South Korean players, hoping that affluent visitors from their neighbor will revive an industry hit by dwindling local interest as young people and other groups pursue more-affordable hobbies beyond the fairway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Korean golfers arrive at Ibaraki Airport, northeast of Tokyo,\u00a0on June 29. Local courses are betting on such&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,1018,38935,755,31682,38117,12440,8080,85,72745],"class_list":["post-834894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-big","tag-courses","tag-golf","tag-guests","tag-japans","tag-korean","tag-south","tag-sports","tag-swing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}