Yongin City: "Vaccinated Overseas Arrivals Can Use Regular Public Transportation"

[Suwon Ilbo=Park No-hun] Yongin City is ending its special transport bus operations for overseas arrivals.

On the 30th, the city announced it will terminate special transport bus operations in accordance with the government's revised system for managing overseas arrivals, which gradually exempts fully vaccinated individuals—both domestic and international—from quarantine and allows them to use public transportation.

Since March 21, overseas arrivals who have completed vaccination domestically, and from April 1, those vaccinated abroad, are now able to use regular public transportation such as buses and taxis.

Previously, overseas arrivals had to use special transport buses and quarantine-related transportation networks regardless of vaccination status, as they were required to quarantine for a set period.

Overseas arrivals residing in Yongin can use airport buses from Incheon Airport: Bus No. 8852 (Incheon Airport~Yongin Terminal) and No. 8877 (Incheon Airport~Korean Folk Village), or Bus No. 8165 (Gimpo Airport~Yongin Terminal) from Gimpo Airport.

Yongin Mayor Baek Kun-ki stated, "While quarantine transportation operations will cease following the government's revised quarantine policies, we will carefully monitor to ensure overseas arrivals experience no inconvenience," adding, "We will do our best until the day we fully reclaim our precious daily lives."

Meanwhile, from March 2020 to March 2022 over approximately two years, the city supported 5,365 of 6,136 overseas arrivals who used specially operated quarantine airport buses with official city vehicles and chartered buses to facilitate their travel from Mir Stadium to their self-isolation facilities.