Currently, several countries, including the U.S. and the Maldives, are offering vaccines to foreign visitors.
People would need to spend one or two days travelling to the country, then stay there at least four weeks in order to receive two doses of the vaccine with a three-week interval in between. Then, upon their arrival back in Korea, they would have to spend another two weeks in mandatory self-isolation, he explained.
While the government has recently decided to allow fully vaccinated people to skip the mandatory self-isolation period after returning from overseas, the exemption rule applies only to those who have received vaccine injections in Korea.