Incheon International Airport will reinforce security inspection measures in order to prevent terrorist attacks.

Key Highlights :

1. The airport has seen a 64 percent recovery in international passengers number from the pre-pandemic levels from 2019.

2. The airport plans to reinforce security inspection measures amid steep increases in passengers from a tourism rebound.

3. The measures come as the airport saw a series of security breaches this year, including two rounds of live ammunition found on a Korean Air plane that was about to take off from the airport bound for Manila last month. A knife also went unnoticed during security screening and was discovered with a Chinese passenger at the boarding gate, last Thursday, while two Kazakhstani nationals climbed over a fence near a runway and fled the airport, March 26, with one of them being captured in Daejeon two weeks later.

4. The airport expects that by the end of the year, there will be up to 53 million international passengers using the airport, yielding an estimated average of 145,000 daily passengers.

     Incheon International Airport Corp. plans to reinforce security inspection measures amid steep increases in passengers from a tourism rebound.

     Incheon International Airport Corp. (IIAC) announced Thursday that it plans to reinforce security inspection measures in order to prevent any possible incidents. The airport has seen a sharp increase in passengers from a tourism rebound, with passenger numbers reaching a record high of over 10.5 million in 2016.

     The measures include increasing the number of security personnel, conducting more thorough screening of passengers, and increasing the number of X-ray machines. IIAC also plans to install more CCTV cameras and improve the flow of traffic.

     With the recent surge in passenger numbers, IIAC has warned that there is a higher risk of terrorist attacks at the airport. In addition, the airport is currently dealing with a backlog of flights as a result of the Lunar New Year holiday.

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