Amid the fourth wave of pandemic, more than one million people visit the island a month and the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus spreading from visitors continues.
More tourists are expected to visit this month compared with last month, however local beaches are not safe from the virus.
Joseph Kim reports.

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This is one of the island’s representative beaches.


Temperature checkpoints have been installed by several entrances to the beach since the official opening of the season.
Color changing thermometer stickers and wristbands are being handed out to vacationers once their body temperature is taken and a fever is not detected.
Many vacationers just walk away even though they are encouraged to register their personal information in entry logs for contact tracing.


Punishments cannot be handed out for not wearing the wristbands and the thermometer stickers as they are not mandatory.
Another checkpoint is empty due to a lack of manpower.



This is another local beach.
People with a wristband or thermometer sticker are rarely spotted.

Small beaches which are not officially managed by authorities don’t have a temperature-check booth.


Despite being in the 4th wave of the pandemic, more than one million people visited the island per month for four consecutive months.


Tourists have recently contributed to cluster infections in Jeju.

Local health authorities are taking stricter measures like banning eating on beaches.
But there is a big hole at the entrance of beaches in the fight against the pandemic.

Joseph Kim, KCTV