There’s currently a public spat between South Korea’s president and Incheon International Airport’s president, which could soon impact passengers. I can’t really make sense of this, because this seems like a silly thing to focus on. Perhaps there’s a bit of nuance here, and this is more about political posturing than anything else. Even so,…
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Perhaps the President of South Korea and Heather Cho can make beautiful, spoiled, entitled babies together.
Can we expect Lee Jae Myung to slap Lee Hag-jae?
It's time for a little malicious compliance here. "We're only doing what the President ordered."
ICN security is a terrible experience as it is. Long lines, TSA-level friendliness, and multiple machines sitting idle even at peak hours
It's concerning how, one by one, presidents around the world are being more and more unhinged...
South Korea should focus on essential work, like checking the social media history of all tourists for the last five years.
If I were to make excuses for them, they are subject to strict spending restrictions from the Korean government's Ministry of Finance, meaning they cannot hire staff at will.
Current president is very popular and the media rarely says negatively about him including this incident. I found it odd that the media portraits the airport representative as a weirdo and praises the president to protect us from smuggling. Ben, you may lose the number of Korean readers due to this post (or gain some), I like your post though.
Why recent South Korean Presidents are all lunatics.
Must be some dangerous toxins or poisons in Blue House.
Lead, mercury, radon, heljoseon?
Your mastery of the obvious is masterful.
Do you have any friends in the real world?
There's nothing weird about that, in fact I'm amazed that more elected politicians don't leverage the soft power of the state on the media (regulatory loosening/tightening, advertising paid for by the state etc) for political gain.
FLIP THROUGH all the books , allow the contraband to fly through the air conditioning , and let the passengers pick up whatever they wish . Magic air conditioning .
Anyone willing to stop visiting a blog because its owner criticises their nation's head of state needs to seek psychological help for their fragility. In fact I'd question how they get through life. It's as bad as a college student having a microaggression-induced panic attack because someone commented on the texture of their hair.
LOL. No long-haul routes from there, just domestic and regional E. Asia (HND, KIX, NGO, SHA, PEK, PKX, TSA, KHH), so I'd still bet on ICN being the main airport for Seoul (and S. Korea, at large.)
Nah, I wouldn't 'both sides' this. Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached AND removed in 2025 for wrongly declaring martial law. The current President, Lee Jae Myung, is doing just fine, regardless of this 'news.'
No, this is nothing like the actual unhinged leaders around the world. First and foremost, Putin who's war of choice has cost more than 1 million casualties to his country; next, because this is a story about the Republic of Korea, we must compare to DPRK, which has Kim "Little Rocketman" Jong Un, who rules over his 'hermit kingdom' with an iron fist; and, obviously, our own leader, Trump, who is deteriorating mentally and physically before our own eyes, engages in the most-petty attacks using social media on the most unusual minutiae all the time, while bullying our allies, and supporting our adversaries, pillaging the public good for his own private gains, and ruining most of the good that our people and nation do. So, this Korean guy is fine.
The rules regarding GMP say that the destinations should be within a 2,000 km radius from the airport and have "enough commercial (business) demands".
PeteAU, I’d say, anyone who threatens to not visit a site, and/or demands others be banned or censored, merely because they disagree with them, is all kinda silly to me. Worst is when folks complain that someone comments too much. Oh, really? It’s easy: engage or ignore.
True, betterbub. Security and passport control at SGN and HAN are much more efficient that at ICN, a fact of which the Korean government should be ashamed.
Or get banned.
Not because they disagree but because they are annoying attention seekers.