SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Passengers of China-bound flights from South Korea must provide two negative coronavirus test results before boarding, starting later this week, health authorities here said Tuesday. Starting Wednesday, China will require all passengers arriving from South Korea, regardless of their nationalities, to submit two negative COVID-19 test results from two [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Lee Joo-mi, 25, didn’t have high expectations when she arrived at Incheon International Airport on Oct. 23. All she had signed up for was a flight from Incheon — to Incheon. The coronavirus pandemic forced the graduate student to return home early from her university in Leicester, Britain. What [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean Air Lines Co. pledged on Tuesday to force passengers refusing to wear protective masks to disembark and ban them from future flights. As part of the company’s ‘Care First’ integrated prevention program, this new regulation requires all passengers to wear protective masks onboard. Korean Air is the first [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The daily number of passengers traveling through Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, fell to an all-time low this week, its operator said Wednesday, amid the worldwide spread of the coronavirus outbreak and relevant travel restrictions imposed by many countries. Incheon International Airport Corp. said only 9,316 passengers — [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will begin fever checks and other health examinations this week on passengers heading to the United States, an official said Tuesday, amid rising concerns over the spread of the new coronavirus in America. Starting at midnight Wednesday, government officials will undertake the examinations, which have so far [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of passengers handled this year by Jeju International Airport, the gateway to Jeju Island, topped 30 million for the first time, data showed Wednesday. A total of 30,057,300 passengers traveled through the airport on the southern resort island until Dec. 16 this year, according to the data [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Airline carriers are suffering from a growing number of voluntary disembark request cases in which airline passengers suddenly say they want to get off the plane. According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the number of voluntary disembark requests at airports across the country has been increasing [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — On the first day of the new year, a Jin Air flight heading for Sapporo experienced problems maintaining air pressure within the cabin. It was belatedly reported that passengers were forced to don oxygen masks as they trembled in fear. A total of 181 passengers had to wear oxygen [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s budget carries transported a record high of over 20 million passengers for the whole of 2017, up sharply from the year before, industry data showed Saturday. Numbers provided by the transportation ministry and the tourism sector showed the country’s six low cost carriers (LCCs) ferried 20.3 million people, up a sharp 41.9 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Incheon International Airport, South Korea’s main gateway, saw its record number of daily passengers renewed this week, airport officials said Monday, with a large number of spring vacation travelers. The number of passengers arriving at and departing from the airport reached 200,868 on Sunday, the highest daily tally since [...]