{"id":2200088,"date":"2023-02-13T02:31:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T02:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nknews.org\/koreapro\/?p=2200088"},"modified":"2023-04-05T16:09:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T07:09:47","slug":"seoul-to-review-mandatory-pcr-tests-for-travelers-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koreapro.org\/2023\/02\/seoul-to-review-mandatory-pcr-tests-for-travelers-from-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Seoul to review mandatory PCR tests for travelers from China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President Yoon Suk-yeol called Monday for the government to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20230210006751325?section=search\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">review<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> mandatory COVID-19 PCR tests for travelers from China. Yoon\u2019s office said there should be \u201cno disruption to people-to-people exchanges between South Korea and China.\u201d South Korea <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20230210002852315\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">resumed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> issuing short-term visas to travelers from China on Saturday after determining that COVID-19 infections have subsided in that country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yoon also asked the prime minister to review the country\u2019s immigration rules in a \u201cforward-looking manner\u201d to vitalize the country&#8217;s tourism industry and \u201cmaximize the national interest.\u201d In response to Seoul\u2019s plan to resume issuing short-term visas for travelers from China, the Chinese government <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20230210006751325?section=search\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> it would \u201cconsider resuming the issuance of short-term visas for South Koreans to China\u201d on par with Seoul\u2019s decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Why It Matters<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">South Korea will likely see its economy grow after the two countries normalize travel for their citizens. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20230131001600320\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">projects<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> South Korea\u2019s economy to grow by 1.7% this year. The Korea International Trade Association (KITA) calculates that China\u2019s reopening would add 0.16 percentage points to South Korea\u2019s growth rate this year. Increased tourists from China will also help to spur the country\u2019s tourism sector.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">South Korea\u2019s exports have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/south-korea-jan-exports-extend-falling-streak-fourth-month-2023-01-30\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fallen<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the past four months, which led to its <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/02\/01\/south-korea-posts-the-worst-trade-deficit-in-its-history.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">worst-recorded trade deficit<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of $47.5 billion for 2022. Meanwhile, the ROK\u2019s negotiations with the U.S. for exemptions for its electric vehicles in the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) have been slow to bear results. This arrangement will complicate the Yoon administration\u2019s foreign policy goals.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-tags\"><a href=\"https:\/\/koreapro.org\/tag\/business-economy\/\"><span class=\"tag\">Business &amp; Economy<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/koreapro.org\/tag\/inter-korean-foreign-relations\/\"><span class=\"tag\">Inter-Korean &amp; Foreign Relations<\/span><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Yoon Suk-yeol called Monday for the government to review mandatory COVID-19 PCR tests for travelers from China. Yoon\u2019s office said there should be \u201cno disruption to people-to-people exchanges between South Korea and China.\u201d South Korea resumed issuing short-term visas to travelers from China on Saturday after determining that COVID-19 infections have subsided in that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10407,"featured_media":2200089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[24,28],"class_list":["post-2200088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-briefings","tag-business-economy","tag-inter-korean-foreign-relations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Seoul to review mandatory PCR tests for travelers from China - KOREA PRO<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/koreapro.org\/2023\/02\/seoul-to-review-mandatory-pcr-tests-for-travelers-from-china\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Seoul to review mandatory PCR tests for travelers from China - KOREA PRO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Yoon Suk-yeol called Monday for the government to review mandatory COVID-19 PCR tests for travelers from China. 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