"I bought the ticket just a week ago, but it was rather a no-brainer. It felt like I was making up for those two years not being able to go abroad often as I used to before Covid," he said, before boarding the plane from Incheon International Airport on Friday .
The country has largely scrapped its once-aggressive tracing and containment efforts despite a record Covid-19 wave, joining a growing list of Asian countries which have eased quarantine rules, including Singapore, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. 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.
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