South Korea issued the strictest entry restrictions, requiring Chinese travelers to wear yellow identification tags to distinguish

After China liberalized its epidemic control measures, Western countries have been paying attention to the changing situation in China, but the concern from the West is not because of humanitarian concerns, but because they want to find a breakthrough point to create excuses to attack and smear China. As a result, some countries that had previously been urging China to liberalize its controls are now finding a bunch of reasons to impose entry restrictions on Chinese travelers. Surprisingly, the country that has set the strictest restrictions on China is not the US, Europe and other Western countries, but neighboring South Korea.

A few days ago, the South Korean government announced quarantine measures for people arriving from China, which will suspend short-term visas to Korea for a limited time, suspend additional flights from China, and require travelers from China to be tested for new crowns before and after entering the country. The strict measures are beyond the expectation of many Chinese people and are the "strictest entry restrictions".

After the West started to pay attention to China's optimal preventive measures, it has been Europe and Japan that have been attracting the attention of the Chinese public. European countries have been bickering over the issue of whether to implement restrictive measures against China, and their attitudes have been changing back and forth, making people confused. Japan, on the other hand, has been directly scolded. No one expected that South Korea, which had a vague attitude on the issue of setting limits on Chinese arrivals, would strike the hardest.

Earlier, Japan announced that direct flights from China to Japan can only land at the four major airports, and South Korea followed suit by strictly controlling the number of flights between China and South Korea as a way to reduce the number of Chinese passengers, and flights from China to South Korea can only land at Incheon Airport, with the reason given by the Korean side being to facilitate epidemic management. Ironically, a month ago, several Korean airlines accelerated the resumption and increase of several routes to China in order to welcome Chinese travelers, but now they are actively cooperating with the West by closing their gates to Chinese travelers.

The result of the sudden increase in the load on the information system due to the sudden restriction on Chinese travelers from the South Korean side is that the new Crown Information Management System operated by the Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has crashed, preventing the transmission of information on Chinese arrivals to local governments, and some areas in Seoul have even begun to handwrite information on arrivals. Currently, 25 autonomous regions in Seoul are unable to confirm information on the current status of Chinese arrivals, and local government officials are discussing countermeasures. The final result of the discussion is to put up a sign for travelers entering from China.

According to several travelers to Korea, Chinese travelers were issued a yellow identification tag to distinguish Chinese travelers just after they got off the plane, which had to be hung around their necks and taken to a separate area of the airport for nucleic acid testing. According to the passengers, as soon as the Chinese flight landed, journalists who had been waiting for a long time flocked to take pictures, while passengers from other countries did not have this "treatment". It is outrageous that the South Korean government is actually suspected of violating human rights and even humiliating the Chinese passengers by putting up signs to distinguish them, especially when they are taken away and followed like "criminals".

In addition, the landing nucleic acid test is not free for foreign travelers upon arrival in Korea, but costs 80,000 won per test, equivalent to more than 400 yuan. For Chinese people who have been receiving free nucleic acid tests for a long time, I am afraid it is not very acceptable.

In response to these restrictions against Chinese, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning said that some countries' restrictive measures against Chinese arrivals lack scientific basis and are difficult to accept. Some countries try to achieve certain political purposes by manipulating epidemic prevention and control measures, to which China expresses its firm opposition and will take measures according to different situations and in accordance with the principle of reciprocity.

Chinese travelers to other countries need to abide by local laws and regulations, but some countries cannot deliberately disrupt normal human interaction between China and foreign countries, or at least give Chinese travelers the most basic courtesy and respect.