Foreign tourists’ card spending in Seoul rose nearly three times as fast as visitor numbers in the first eight months of the year, nearly matching the total spent throughout last year. Foreign tourists spent 7.78 trillion won ($5.79 billion) by card in the capital from January through August, up 59.9 percent from a year earlier, the Seoul Metropolitan Government said Tuesday. That growth rate was about 2.8 times the 21.6 percent increase in visitors over the same period. The eight-month spending