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This is BBC World, Putting News First. They’ve got matching <색, 외관이> 조화된 beach towels and money to burn and they’re coming soon to a resort near you. Chinese tourists are poised to ~할 태세를 갖추다 take the world by storm <비유적> ~을 황홀하게 하다, 빼앗다. Here in Thailand, they’ve already taken over whole islands.
That’s Ni Jiang, coming into land. She’s a music teacher who grew up thinking she’d never travel abroad. Suddenly, the world is opening up. Millions like her can now afford ~할 여유가 있다 these cheap package tours. Ni Jiang is here on her honeymoon. “Yeah, very beautiful.” She tells me it’s her first time at the seaside. My husband’s a computer engineer and our incomes are growing fast. So now it’s easy to travel overseas.
Next stop, Bangkok! Tin Kwan yang is a taxi driver from Shanghai. He’s taking his family on their first foreign holiday. A few years ago, his modest salary 얼마 안되는 급료 would never have stretched this far. But he’s now giddy 들떠있는 with excitement.
And so a battle has begun. Countries competing over China’s tourist market. Thailand is pulling out all the stops 가능한 모든 노력을 다하다 with lavish 호화로운 video promotions like this one and a frenzy 열광 of Mandarin 중국의 표준어 lessons for tour guides. “It’s a huge, huge market. You cannot just sit back and wait for them to come. You have to go out into China to the various, even to the provincial 지방의, 시골의 level, you know, to…to promote your stuff.”
And this is the stuff which seems to go down best in Thailand. Bangkok’s famous lady boy shows. Full houses <극장 따위의> 만원every night, packed with thousands of wide-eyed Chinese tourists. The transsexual 성전환자의 performers now mime 흉내내다 the very latest Chinese melodies.
Outside, a chance to mingle 어울리다! Thanks to China, the lady boy industry here is booming like never before. Have you learned to speak Chinese? “Yes.” It’s good for business? “Yes. It’s good.” And Tin, the Chinese taxi driver, seems to be having the time of his life <구어> 더할 수 없이 즐거운 때를 보내다. Andrew Harding, BBC News, Bangkok.
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