South Korea to end pre-departure COVID test requirement for inbound travelers

Still NO. Asking for PCR test within 24 hours after arrival? Geez!

I'm waiting for Japan to stop requiring tests to get into the country. They've stopped testing on arrival, which is great, and they've dropped the useless quarantining, too, for vaxed people. (So many of the old rules were just silly: no public transportation for arrivals, but taking a taxi home? No problem!? lol.)

One more step: no more COVID tests prior to departure. Take their temperature pre-boarding. Normal temp levels? Yokoso Japan! This Pan-demic is at an End-(emic)!

Hopefully the beginning of the end of the Covid nonsense in Korea. Japan next.

@Hito Bito

Japan is stopping the PCR requirement for triple boosted arrivals from 7 September. Plus no PCR test within 24 hrs of arrival. So I guess that places Japan ahead of another country for a change!

So I guess that places Japan ahead of another country for a change!

Except, of course, that Korea actually allows regular tourists who aren't part of a tour... well, at least, South Korea does.