In 2018, overtourism was an Asia-wide affliction, with destinations from Boracay, in the Philippines, to Thailand's Maya Bay engaging in damage control after too many visitors had descended. Heck, the term even made it onto the Oxford English Dictionary's "word of the year" shortlist. The South Korean island of Jeju also suffered from "too many tourists" that year, according to The Korea Times. Speaking to the English-language daily in 2018,.