International travelers to South Korea will no longer be quarantined

In a bid to boost tourism, International travelers to South Korea will no longer be quarantined. South Korea has announced the removal of the mandatory 7-day quarantine for unvaxxed international arrivals from June 8.

Prime Minister Han Duck-soo on Friday. However, international arrivals will need to take an RT PCR test within three days of their entry into South Korea.

The PM further informed that the government will normalize the number of international flights along with lifting the curfew for arrivals at Incheon International Airport the same day. Apparently, the country had imposed strict COVID-19 rules and regulations for 26 months. In a bid to boost tourism, International travelers to South Korea will no longer be quarantined.

As per the Transport Ministry, the move is going to increase the number of arrival flights per hour to the pre-pandemic level of around 40 from the current 20. Now that the demand for foreign travel is increasing in the country, the nation has decided to lift its pandemic-related restrictions on air travel.

Apparently, the rates of airline tickets increased due to several restrictions on international flights and the curfew for arrivals at the international airport.

As of now, the country is not allowing any flights to land at the airport between 8 PM and 5 AM.

Also to meet the rising demand, the government will also remove the limited number of weekly international flights from June 8 as the virus situation looks quite stable in the country. Earlier, the Ministry had planned to add 100 to 300 more flights per week in phases starting May.

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