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July 03, 2021
People walk through the Myeongdong shopping district of South Korean capital Seoul in May.
Reuters
As much of the world went into lockdown last year during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, South Korea bucked the trend with a strategy aimed at keeping as much of its economy open as possible.
More than 18 months into the global health crisis, it is once again blazing a trail as a rare example of an Asia-Pacific economy now taking concrete steps to reopen its borders.
Since Thursday (July 1), fully vaccinated visitors have been able to skip an otherwise compulsory two week-quarantine if they are visiting family, or travelling for business, academic or public interest reasons so long as they did not travel through one of 21 countries deemed to be high risk.