There’s currently a public spat between South Korea’s president and Incheon International Airport’s president, which could soon impact passengers. I can’t really make sense of this, because this seems like a silly thing to focus on. Perhaps there’s a bit of nuance here, and this is more about political posturing than anything else. Even so, it seems like a losing battle…
The idea is that cash could be placed into books like bookmarks, and a lot of it could be transported. So the president called on Incheon Airport president Lee Hag-jae to have security staff start manually searching all bags, to identify books, and then go through them to make sure they’re free of cash.
The airport president pushed back on this proposal, saying that if security staff were to manually search 100% of bags, “the airport would be paralyzed.” That caused the country’s president to attack him, as he didn’t like being publicly refuted. Following that, the airport president wrote the following (translated to English):
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