My desk is full of passports.
Today (4th), the Passport Office is also busy without a break.
As quarantine regulations are lifted and demand for overseas travel, which has been suppressed, revives, more and more people are making new passports like this.
The number of our tourists who went out of the country has now recovered to 35% of the pre-COVID-19 level.
On the other hand, the number of tourists entering Korea is also increasing rapidly.
So, there are even sayings that this year 2023 will be the year of travel recovery.
[Cho Il-sang/Hana Tour Public Relations Team Leader: Overseas travel recovery is becoming more evident in 2023.
If there is no external variable such as corona mutant virus or economic recession...
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However, as the corona situation has recently worsened, mainly in China, there are not that many people who are still willing to travel to areas where the shadow of the corona has been cast.
Today is the day that makes everyone think about whether they will be able to climb the sky again with this passport, which they made while dreaming of traveling abroad after a long time, and whether they can really go back to before COVID-19.