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's friendly economy time.

Reporter Han Ji-yeon is also here today (the 20th).

Do you think you will be able to travel freely in Japan soon?



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Yes, it seems that you will be able to travel independently without a visa as early as next month.



Even after the corona virus, if you want to travel to Japan, only group packages are available.

Entry restrictions are stricter than in other countries.



Fortunately, on the 7th, the entry restrictions were slightly loosened, increasing the number of inbound travelers from 20,000 per day to 50,000, and allowing package tours without guides.



If the plan goes as planned next month, the package travel regulations will be completely abolished.

In addition to allowing visa-free entry, the limit on the number of entries per day will be completely lifted.



Prior to March 2020, when entry restrictions were tightened due to the corona virus, Korean tourists were allowed to stay in Japan for up to 90 days without a visa.



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Then more and more people seem to want to go to Japan. So, how do you increase the number of flights?

Are you in the mood to grow?

How is it?



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Yes, it currently takes up to 3 weeks to get a Japanese visa, but if this disappears, more people will go to Japan easily.



Airlines are showing signs of expanding their routes to Japan in earnest. In particular, the main overseas routes of low-cost carriers, or LCCs, before Corona were Japan.

I have summarized it focusing on LCC.



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Jeju Air, number one in the industry, will increase the Incheon-Narita route from 5 times a week to 7 flights a week starting today.



From next month, we will increase flights outside of Tokyo, and we have decided to operate daily flights from Incheon to Osaka or Fukuoka, and from Busan to Osaka.



Air Seoul has decided to resume operations on the Incheon-Narita route from the 27th, and resume flights to Osaka and Fukuoka, Japan from the 30th of next month.



From the day after tomorrow, Jin Air will increase the Incheon-Osaka route from 5 times a week to 7 times a week, and also increase the Incheon-Fukuoka route from 3 times a week to 7 times a week from next month.



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emoticon appeared online.



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Yes, the first reason it was created was not commercial. In 1982, Professor Scott Palmer of the Department of Computer Science at a university in the United States posted a smiling expression on an online bulletin board where only text could be written, which was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the first digital emoticon. .



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This is an emoticon that looks like it is lying on its side and smiling on the screen, and an innovative chapter in online history has been opened with the appearance of emoticons that combine punctuation colons, hyphens, and parentheses.



It is said that the reason Professor Lee first used emoticons was that when he joked about something, he could be misunderstood if he only expressed it in writing.



For the next 40 years, emoticons have evolved three-dimensionally, depicting facial expressions and objects.



It has also grown in business, and domestically, it has grown from about 100 billion won in 2017 when paid emoticons were in full swing to about 700 billion won last year.



The cumulative number of emoticons is over 300,000.

In the past 10 years, only about 230 billion emoticons have been used on KakaoTalk.



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results of a survey to find out the recognition related to the use of emoticons are out.



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Yes, the number of users of emoticons continues to increase, and recently, nearly 9 out of 10 people are using them.



71% of the respondents said that using emoticons makes conversation more fun, and more than 21% said that they feel awkward if they do not use emoticons.



But you should also use these emoticons in the right place.



There were negative reactions to the use of emoticons that are not appropriate for the situation, and 65% of the respondents said that they should refrain from using emoticons in public situations.



There was an opinion that replacing only emoticons without text would seem insincere, and there were responses that it is the exact opposite of the origin of emoticons, but the meaning is often misunderstood.