SOUTH KOREA

Crackdown on Travelers Scheduled: South Korea will impose curbs on spending by its citizens overseas in a bid to crack down on free-spending, carousing travelers who “sully” the national honor and burden the treasury, officials said last week. Violators will face having their passports--or worse, their credit cards--revoked and could face tax audits and unwanted police and customs attention. No date has been given for enforcing the new rules. “The government has decided to take action because of the tourism deficit and also adverse reports about some Koreans on foreign trips,” an official said. Some 1.5 million South Koreans traveled abroad last year, compared to 720,000 in 1988.