1. Immigration policy - exemption from quarantine for everyone.

Previously, the Korean government said that immigrants who have completed vaccinations and registered their vaccination history in Korea and overseas are exempted from the 7-day quarantine. However, on the same day (June 3), the Korean government decided to lift the seven-day quarantine obligation from June 8 that unvaccinated people must fulfill when entering Korea.

2. Entry Policy - Only one PCR test is required within 3 days of entering Korea.

According to the policy released by the Korean government on May 13, starting June 1, only one PCR test is required within three days after entering Korea. Among them, long-staying Koreans and foreigners can receive the test free of charge at health centers and other places, while short-staying foreigners should undergo a medical checkup at airports or self-examination at hospitals.

3. Entry Policy - New Crown Pneumonia Negative Documents Submitted Upon Entry with New 'Confirmation Letter of Negative Rapid Antigen Detection'

Previously, entry into Korea required the submission of a PCR negative confirmation no later than 48 hours prior to entry. However, from May 23, the Korean government also recognizes rapid antigen test results within 12 hours of entry.

4.[Immigration Policy]-Quarantine Simplification System (Q-CODE)

The full name of Q-CODE is "Quarantine Information Entry System in Advance"! It is mainly used to fill in some quarantine information, such as country, passport information, inoculation status, health status, etc!

Official website address: index page

The purpose of the current quarantine system is to simplify the declaration and shorten the waiting time for entry!

If you want to clear customs quickly when entering Korea, please enter your quarantine information through the quarantine system in advance so that you can leave the airport quickly~

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5. Tourist Visa - June 1, the resumption of tourist visas (C-3).

Since the outbreak of the epidemic, Korea has temporarily suspended short-term visitor visas. With the gradual improvement of the epidemic in Korea, the Korean government has decided to reissue short-term visitor (C-3) visas and e-visas for foreigners from June 1st. As well as resuming multiple visa issuance operations and expedited visa operations.

That is to say, for those who have previously applied for a tourist visa, your visa is "resurrected" ~ and due to special reasons, need to speed up the visa processing speed of the partners can also use the "visa expedited business"!

6. Visa-free entry - June 1, Jeju Island resumed visa-free entry.

One of South Korea's ongoing policy liberalization, from June 1, foreigners entering from Jeju and Xiangyang airports can enter the country without a visa! However, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan are still under a suspension of mutual visa exemptions due to the new Crown Pneumonia outbreak, so a visa is still required for entry to Jeju from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan!

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Related Q&A: Related Q&A: What is the experience of living in Korea?

My brother-in-law spent 7 million dollars to buy a 65 square feet house in Seoul, or a house in an old neighborhood. Before I went to Korea, I thought life in Korea was as good as it is in Korean dramas, but after I went to Korea I realized that this place has turned my imagination upside down.

In 2018, my cousin and brother-in-law held a wedding in Seoul, South Korea, I went to attend my cousin's wedding, but also traveled to live in South Korea for 1 month, so the life of the Korean people is really as good as in Korean dramas? Let's talk about my experience of living in Korea.

First time in Korea

1. I flew directly from Guangzhou to Korea and arrived at Incheon Airport in Korea in about 3.5 hours. Although Incheon Airport is far from the city, it is one of the largest international transit airports in Asia, where there are perfect services for eating and resting.

2. When I got out of Incheon Airport, I was going to take a taxi to my cousin's house. Taxis here come in many colors, black, white, orange and silver.

I didn't really understand the difference between these cabs at that time, so I just found a black one. I got in and the driver actually asked me in Chinese if I was traveling to Korea, I didn't expect him to speak Chinese and the service was very good. After about 40 minutes we arrived in Seoul.

3. I was a little disappointed when we arrived in Seoul, it was not as busy as I thought it would be, there were a lot of old houses, a lot of messy wires on the streets, and the roads were very narrow, most of them were two lanes.

When we passed the Han River, I saw a lot of pigeons, and the driver told me: make sure you don't hurt these pigeons, Koreans are very pampered animals, and pets have a high status. If the police find out that you hurt an animal they will arrest you, and you will be sentenced to jail for animal cruelty.

4. I saw a lot of colorful garbage cans on the streets of Seoul, Koreans are very concerned about garbage sorting, when you throw garbage in Korea, you have to sort it first, and if you throw the wrong garbage, you will be fined.

There is also some furniture on the side of the road in Korea, and the driver told me that this kind of furniture is usually usable, and can be put on the street for others to take away and continue to use.

5. When I got to my cousin's house and was about to get off, the driver told me the fare was 90,000 won, which translates to about 515 yuan. I was feeling like I was being punked, so I called my cousin, who told me that I had picked the most expensive black cab, and I was holding back on paying the fare and then going to my cousin's house to rest.

6. When I arrived at my cousin's house, I was really shocked that their family of five was crammed into a two-room apartment of 65 square meters, with my cousin and brother-in-law in one room, my cousin's in-laws in another, and my brother-in-law's younger brother in the living room on the floor, and the room was originally not very big and piled up with stuff.

I asked my cousin, "Why doesn't my brother-in-law's brother move out?" Cousin implied that I should not ask, and that the evening party would be giving me a detailed explanation. By the time the evening cousin and I a room, brother-in-law and brother in the living room to play the floor, cousin then told me the truth.

So why is brother-in-law's brother bunking in the living room and not moving out?

1. With a land area of only 103,200 square kilometers and a total population of about 52 million (2019), South Korea is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. There are many nationals who traveled to South Korea complained that South Korea is too crowded.

2. In South Korea, there are not a few families like brother-in-law. According to survey statistics: more than half of Koreans aged 30-40 still live with their parents, and my brother-in-law's brother is one of them. So why doesn't he move out or buy a house?

Because South Korea's housing prices are so high that in 2018, apartments in the city center of Seoul, South Korea, reached about 92,000 yuan per square meter, and even apartments in the suburbs of Seoul sold for about 45,000 yuan per square meter.

Combined with the relatively large increase in South Korea's housing prices, as of 2021, South Korea's Seoul city center prices, up to 200,000 yuan per square meter, such high prices are not the average family can afford.

A decent income of office workers, do not eat and drink to struggle for 10 years, in order to buy a small house, coupled with the price of housing has risen too quickly, so some young people have no choice but to live with their parents.

Aspects of Korean life

1. Koreans care a lot about etiquette and use honorifics in their daily lives, for example, young people must use honorifics to their elders, and they may not use honorifics between their peers and their friends, and if they don't know the other person's age, Koreans usually use honorifics as well.

2. Koreans love to wear slippers, whether it is hot summer or cold winter, there are a lot of people wearing slippers to go to the supermarket to buy groceries, and even some people wear slippers on a date, Koreans like to sit on the ground, wearing slippers thieves convenient.

3. Koreans pay a lot of attention to wear, every day's clothes almost no heavy, Koreans also love make-up, almost all the girls on the street with exquisite makeup.

Korean boys' clothing is also very good, they wear clothes are basically black, white and gray tones, they are extraordinarily like to wear a coat or a long jacket, is the classic Korean drama Oba wear.

4. many places in South Korea have wifi, if you live in South Korea's larger cities, almost all do not need to open the flow, many places have free wifi. like restaurants, convenience stores, and even some cabs provide wifi, and South Korea's tennis is also very fast, watch a movie do not have to worry about lag.

5. Koreans like to drink, in Korea, regardless of men and women, young and old, encountered large and small things will run to drink, and is a different way to drink. Not only Korean company parties have a rich drinking culture, even family gatherings, neighbors get-togethers will drink, and even vending machines in Korea have alcohol for sale.

Transportation in Korea

1. Buses

Korea's bus system is very developed, but fares are much more expensive than at home, for example, if you take a 5 or 6 stops, you'll need about 1,200 won, which is about 7 yuan. In order to facilitate travel you can get a bus card, which can be used on both the bus and the subway.

When you take the bus in Korea, you have to wave to the driver in advance when you wait for the bus. This is a little bit like in small counties in China, because in big cities in China it might be a lot of people waiting for the bus together and the driver will stop when he sees them, but in Korea it might be you alone waiting for that bus, so make sure you remember to wave.

When you get off the bus, you have to press the red button in advance so that the driver knows that you want to get off the bus, and you have to swipe your card to get on and off the bus in Korea.

When you take a bus in Korea, you will also find that there are many colors of seats on the bus, such as grey, yellow and pink.

It's important to note that the pink seats are for pregnant women and the yellow seats are for the elderly and people with mobility problems, so don't sit in these seats if you are not a special person. Koreans value special people so much that no one sits in the special seats even if they are empty.

2. Subway

The subway is a very convenient way to get around in Korea, and you can get to almost anywhere you want to go. You don't have to worry about passing a stop on the subway either. The signs in the subway are in three languages, Korean, English and Chinese, and most subways have Chinese station announcements.

There are a few special seats in each car in the Korean subway, which are reserved for the elderly, and young people won't sit in them, regardless of whether there are seats in the car or not. So don't sit on those seats when you ride the subway in Korea, but of course you can if you are an older person.

3. Taxi

Taxis in Korea come in many colors, including orange, white, silver and black. White, silver, and orange cabs are very common and start at 2,800-3,000 won.

It is important to note: if you are traveling to Korea, try not to take a black cab, which is the most expensive and of course has the best service. Black cabs are model cabs, the drivers usually speak Chinese and English, and the starting price is 3,200-5,000 won.

Korean food

1. Koreans love kimchi, and eat it at almost every meal. There are many types of kimchi in Korea, including cucumber kimchi, cabbage kimchi and radish kimchi.

2. You can eat the most authentic Korean barbecue in Korea, and scissors and tweezers are indispensable tools when eating barbecue. Korean fried chicken and kimchi noodles are also very good, you can try.

3. In addition to eating kimchi, Koreans also love cheese. Koreans love cheese to the bone, and the streets are full of food made with cheese. For example, cheese pizza, cheese sandwiches, cheese kimchi, cheese ribs, cheese hot pot. If you have no feeling for cheese, then you have lost half of the Korean cuisine.

4. Koreans are super fond of coffee, there is a coffee shop every few hundred meters and basically everyone brings an iced coffee to work.

However, Koreans love coffee also has something to do with Korea's overtime culture. Koreans work an average of about 10 hours a day, and it's not uncommon for many office workers to walk out of the office at one or two o'clock in the morning.

5. Koreans also have chopsticks and spoons, but few Korean restaurants have disposable chopsticks, they use flat chopsticks or stainless steel, I'm not used to flat chopsticks at first, I can't get the food to work, but I'm getting used to them.

When I ate in a Korean restaurant, I also found a few small details, many people will say "please enjoy" before eating, very polite.

There are also some people who push their chairs in after eating, and then dump the leftovers on the same plate to make it easier for the waiter to clean up, these are very simple details, but if everyone does this, it will save a lot of manpower and material resources.

Korean education

Korean students are under great pressure to learn, and there is a popular term in Korea called "four when five fall", which means that if you sleep for four hours a day, you can get into the ideal university, and if you sleep for five hours a day, you will fail the exam. The early hours of the morning for the Korean high school students, is the "golden time" to fight.

We all say let the children do not lose at the starting line, South Korea is definitely the most thorough implementation of the country. In South Korea, many children have been attending cram schools since kindergarten.

Korean students go to bed at 11 o'clock are considered early, students on the cram school, does not mean that you can go home to rest, there are still some people will go to the study room to continue to learn. In South Korea, a student is far busier than an average office worker.

University dormitories in some parts of Seoul are so tight that many students can't apply for them, and those who can't can either go home or rent an apartment.

Renting a house in South Korea is also very expensive, 20 square meters of house rent in about 2500 yuan, the security deposit varies from 0-3 million ranging from a new house in a good location, the security deposit of about 3-12 million.

Salaries, prices in South Korea

In 2019, the per capita GDP of South Korea is 31,800 dollars, and it is easy to make over 10,000 dollars a month in South Korea. An average office worker in a small or medium-sized business earns around $15-25,000 per month, and a national civil servant earns around $25-30,000 per month.

Employees of large companies such as Samsung and Lotte earn around 30,000 yuan a month, and even an average dishwasher or waiter can earn more than 10,000 yuan a month.

While the wages in Korea are very high, the prices in Korea are also very high. The price of vegetables in Korea is almost 2-4 times higher than that in China, like a cabbage costs about 20 yuan, and I've seen one that costs 60 yuan, and a radish costs 6-10 yuan.

Fruits in Korea are even more expensive, an apple costs about $10, a piece of watermelon about $100, and 4 oranges cost about $30.

An average working meal in Korea costs between $30-60, and a nice lunch in Korea is around $80-150.

What are some places to visit in Korea?

1. Gyeongbokgung Palace

Gyeongbokgung Palace is the first important Palace of the Joseon Dynasty and the only existing palace with four gates. When you enter Gyeongbokgung, you can see the various buildings inside the palace.

2. Seoul Tower

Seoul Tower is a landmark of Seoul and a representative of the beautiful night view of Korea. Inside the tower, there are observation decks, cafes, restaurants, etc., which are perfect for friends and couples to enjoy the night view and chat over tea.

3. Nanyi Island

Nanyi Island is known for its narrow horizontal water flow and is blessed with a beautiful landscape. It has been used as a filming location for many TV dramas and is visited by many foreign tourists as well as tourists from their own countries.

4. Lotte World

Lotte World in Seoul, South Korea, is a large amusement park where here here are fairytale designs, exciting rides, and attentive service. Many Korean movies and variety shows have been filmed here, so be sure to check it out when you visit Korea.

5. Bukchon Hanok Village

Bukchon Hanok Village is one of the representative traditional settlements in Seoul, and there are many historical sites, cultural heritages, and folklore materials everywhere. Therefore, Bukchon Hanok Village is called a street museum in the center of the city.

Writing in the end: after coming to Korea, I feel that it is better to live happily at home, because I personally love to eat fruits, but the fruits in Korea are really too expensive.

Students and office workers in Korea are under a lot of pressure, and staying up late is a regular thing. You can see a lot of exquisite beauties when you visit Korea, and the clothes here are very nice.

After reading the article, what do you think of Korea?