South Korean passengers will be greeted in Korean upon arrival at Kagoshima Airport on September 2.
13:15 JST, September 21, 2024
KIRISHIMA, Kagoshima — Regular flights between Kagoshima and Seoul are now offered daily amid a surge in passengers arriving from South Korea. Jeju Air, a South Korean low-cost carrier, resumed flights between Kagoshima and Incheon this month. In addition, Korean Air Lines has increased the number of flights per week from three round trips to five.
From October 2023, after COVID-19 restrictions were eased, Korean Air resumed roundtrip flights three times a week, on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The airline also recently began flights on Mondays and Thursdays. With Korean Air and Jeju Air combined, flights between Kagoshima and Incheon are now daily.
On September 2, Korean Air’s first additional flight carrying passengers from Incheon landed at Kagoshima Airport in Kirishima, Kagoshima Prefecture.
A 22-year-old South Korean student who came with the service said, “I want to eat kurobuta pork and visit the sights in Kyushu with a rental car.”
According to the prefectural government, about 58,000 South Koreans visited and stayed in the prefecture last year, about 40% of the number in 2019, before the COVID-19 crisis.
