It has been found that foreign passengers boarding flights departing from Korea arriving at the international airport in Dalian, Liaoning Province, China, are required to wear white raincoats. Controversy is brewing as rumors are spreading that this is not a retaliatory measure for the recent South Korean quarantine authorities making travelers from China wear yellow raincoats.
According to Chinese media outlets such as the Hong Kong Economic Times (HKET) on the 9th (local time), recently on social media, there were videos showing foreign passengers boarding flights from Korea arriving at Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport wearing white raincoats. spread
In the video, flight attendants were also seen handing out white tickets to each passenger and guiding them to undergo a separate gene amplification test (PCR).
The flight was Korean Air from South Korea, and the airline explained that it was a request from the authorities, saying, “We do not have the authority to make people wear rain tickets.”
At the same time, it was announced that such white tickets would be distributed not only to Koreans, but also to all foreign passengers who are not of Chinese nationality.
In response, the Zhoushuizi Airport responded that it was not the landing information, but the distribution of the ticket, the airline, and the PCR test, the customs, according to local media.
There is also an interpretation that this measure is not a retaliatory measure for the South Korean quarantine authorities to wear yellow raincoats on arrivals from China.
Previously, voices of dissatisfaction came out from all over the place, calling it “discrimination” among the Chinese over the fact that the Korean quarantine authorities required all entrants from China to wear yellow raincoats.
The Korean government restricted the issuance of short-term visas to China from the 2nd to the 31st of last month in order to strengthen quarantine for inbound travelers from China, and extended the measure until the 28th.
In response, the Chinese government is also taking retaliatory measures, such as suspending the issuance of short-term visas to Koreans to China, and the controversy is expected to continue for a while.
Source: Donga
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