South Korea Will Lift Quarantine Requirement for Vaccinated Travelers
South Korea will soon allow fully vaccinated visitors to enter and travel throughout the country without any quarantine measures beginning next month. Since December 3rd, South Korea has required all inbound travelers to quarantine for seven days in an effort to stop the spread of the Omicron variant.
The country’s official tourism website, Imagine Your Korea, now says that starting April 1, visitors to Korea who have completed their COVID-19 vaccinations will be exempt from mandatory quarantine. Quarantine exemptions can be obtained for people who have received their last dose of a full COVID-19 vaccine regimen in the last six months or who have had their booster shot after their full course of the vaccine.
Imported COVID-19 cases now account for less than 0.1 percent of the daily count in South Korea. Of 350,190 new Covid-19 cases reported on Sunday for example, only 33 were from overseas. So authorities have decided to lift the quarantine requirement for vaccinated travelers, explaining that they “aren’t likely to cause much of an impact on the domestic pandemic wave.”
Foreign visitors must enter their vaccine records to Q-CODE prior to arriving in Korea and scan the provided QR code upon immigration. Q-CODE will require personal information (passport number), entry information (departure country, airline, address in Korea, phone number), and vaccine records.
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don’t forget you need to apply for K-ETA now before arriving. It was free during a trial period last year but of course no one was thinking about traveling at that time and the visa is only good for 2 years… just sounds like a money grab to me
Not making the Korea trip just yet. They are now peaking with Omicron, with 300K+ cases per day and 200 deaths or so. Plus, the cities are so congested you cannot find anywhere away from others if you wanted.
Planning on August; should be tolerable numbers by then.
As for Chris’ desk fan remark – that is actually true – many Koreans believe fans should not left turned on at night because people have died from the effects. Whatever effects that may be…..
These people seriously believe that a desk fan will kill you.
Great! Now we just need Japan to open up. I have tickets to visit Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Singapore, Cambodia and my first stop is Japan so I hope they open up soon! My tickets are for mid-June.