Beijing Korean Residents Return Home by Charter Flight After 3 Days

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Hye-seon] International students and Korean residents in Beijing, China’s capital, will return to Korea on the 3rd via a chartered flight. They are scheduled to use a chartered flight allocated for employees of Samsung affiliates.

According to the Korean Embassy in China and the Korean Association in Beijing on the 2nd, Air China’s chartered flight (CA 561) will operate from Beijing Capital (Shoudu) Airport to Incheon Airport at 10:45 a.m. on the 3rd. On the same day in the afternoon, the flight is allocated to bring about 200 employees of Samsung Electronics and Samsung Electro-Mechanics to Tianjin, where Samsung’s business sites are located. International students and Korean residents who wished to return can use this chartered flight to go back to Korea. This is the first time since the outbreak of COVID-19 that Korean residents in Beijing are returning home by chartered flight.

China has effectively blocked international flights from Beijing to enforce COVID-19 prevention measures in the capital and has strictly limited charter flight operations. Air China operates the Incheon-Beijing route once a week, but only via a stopover in Qingdao, not as a direct flight.