{"id":30513,"date":"2022-06-07T03:08:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T06:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=30513"},"modified":"2026-04-23T08:02:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:02:27","slug":"south-korea-to-allow-entry-of-unvaccinated-travellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/south-korea-to-allow-entry-of-unvaccinated-travellers","title":{"rendered":"South Korea to allow entry of unvaccinated travellers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Visitors who are not vaccinated against Covid-19 will be able to enter South Korea without undergoing quarantine as long as they present two negative tests carried out within three of arrival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

South Korea.- The Korea Centers for Disease Control & Prevention<\/strong> has announced that from tomorrow (June 8), visitors will be able to enter South Korea without Covid-19 vaccination and without undergoing quarantine. The only requirement will be to present two negative Covid-19 tests taken within three days of arrival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If one of the two tests carried out after arrival is South Korea is positive, a visitor will have to undergo a seven-day quarantine. All travellers, vaccinated or not, must still show a negative Covid-19 test before boarding a flight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Korea has already resumed\u00a0issuing short-term tourist entry<\/a> for individual tourists and tour groups. Citizens of most countries can stay in South Korea for up to 90 days for tourism, business trips, medical treatment, visiting relatives, and conference attendance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The measures are subject to revision in the event of changes in the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the news was well-received by the country’s casinos as 16 of the 17 casinos in South Korea only allow foreign players to enter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January, Jeju island was considering whether it would be possible to allow its land-based casinos to\u00a0provide remote gambling to foreign players<\/a>\u00a0as a way to help the industry recover. However,\u00a0authorities ruled out the possibility of allowing South Korean nationals to gamble\u00a0<\/strong>as they received many opinions against the idea.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due to countermeasures and travel restrictions, the number of arrivals in South Korea was 212,767 in 2020 and 48,278 in 2021, down 87.7 per cent and 77.3 per cent from 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Visitors who are not vaccinated against Covid-19 will be able to enter South Korea without undergoing quarantine as long as they present two negative tests carried out within three of arrival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":16617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"South Korea has significantly eased COVID-19 entry restrictions, allowing unvaccinated foreign visitors to enter without quarantine, provided they present two negative tests post-arrival. This policy shift is expected to boost the nation's casino sector, which predominantly caters to foreign clientele, following severe declines in tourist arrivals during the pandemic. The government previously rejected proposals for remote gambling for South Korean nationals.","focusai_entities":"Korea Centers for Disease Control & Prevention","focusai_location":"South Korea, Jeju island","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Projected GGR Uplift?","query":"What is the projected GGR uplift for South Korean foreign-player casinos following these relaxed entry protocols, considering historical tourist arrival data?"},{"label":"Regulatory Compliance Impact?","query":"How will the increased influx of foreign players impact the regulatory compliance burden for South Korean land-based operators, particularly concerning AML and responsible gambling frameworks?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,23876],"tags":[23907],"class_list":["post-30513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-social-news","tag-land-based-casino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30513"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30542,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30513\/revisions\/30542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}