S. Korea hopes to start travel bubble with Singapore, Taiwan from July

South Korea's Transport Ministry said they are planning to allow only selected package tours in the first phase of the travel bubble programme. - ST FILE, UNSPLASH

SEOUL (The Straits Times/ANN): South Korea is hoping to expedite travel bubble talks with the likes of Singapore and Taiwan to allow quarantine-free travel for fully vaccinated people from as early as July, as part of a national campaign to encourage mass vaccination.

The Transport Ministry said on Wednesday (June 9) that it is pushing to allow people who have taken two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine to go on group tours to countries that have strong virus control measures in place and have been relatively successful in containing the pandemic.