Sales of overseas flight tickets on 11st, an e-commerce unit of SK Telecom Co Ltd, South Korea's top mobile carrier, rose more than eight-fold compared with a year before between March 11, when the lifting of quarantine was announced, and March 27, the company said."I couldn't dare to travel even in Korea because of Covid,"she said."But now I feel a bit freer with the exemption, so I've decided to go meet old friends and do some sightseeing.
Saipan and Guam, both of which have travel bubble pacts with South Korea, also offer free Covid testing and pay for quarantine expenses if a traveller tests positive. Each South Korean national visiting Saipan even receives US$100 in"travel bucks" incentives to spend at businesses there. "The surge reflects growing customer sentiment that an end of Covid travel curbs might be in the offing after the mandatory quarantine was lifted," said Mr Lee Jeong-pil, general manager of CJ's home shopping unit.