 Cebu is a popular tourist draw for Koreans, and some settled down to make the province their home.In Cebu City, as early as 2005 Korean investors were renting old buildings in the city center, helping to revive the area in the same way that they revived Avenida or Escolta districts in Manila.Even high bureaucratic fees (such as a P50,000 levy on foreigners running short-term language schools) did little to slow the influx.