Once everything was sorted out, I was instructed to go to an area to the left to fill out several more documents. One of the officials even walked me to it and explained what I needed to do when I got out of the baggage area and also about how the quarantine process would work. After then going through immigration, getting my bags, and exiting into arrivals I handed over a few documents and my lanyard to more officials.

I was then asked to step over to a booth to request either a taxi or a bus. I was always under the impression that I would need to take a bus, so I just asked if the bus would take me to a testing facility before the hotel. They said yes and directed me to wait in an area before someone else directed a couple of us to where we bought a bus ticket.

The people at the ticketing booth didn’t speak great English, so I just showed them the address of where my hotel was. They then knew that I wanted to go to Seoul and where in Seoul I should buy a ticket to. It was 16,000 Won.

They told me the gates for the busses were just around the corner. I walked over and more officials were there to ask where I was going. They pointed me in the direction of the busses going to Seoul where I then had to sign in and put down the address of where I was staying. It was all in Korean, so luckily the man there knew the hotel and filled it out for me. He told me to take a seat and wait about 45 minutes until the busses arrived.

When they arrived, we were all instructed to make a line in groups of where we would be getting off. I was listening for my stop (which was Seocho) and once I heard them say it, I knew to get in line, but the official also at that point got my attention to make sure I got in line.

Once we were all on the properly assigned busses, it took about an hour to get to Seoul. They made stops and dropped people off. The driver wasn’t always announcing the stop, so I was waiting until I saw two people that were in the Seocho line with me back at the airport get up. Once I saw them get up, I knew to also get up, but the driver also decided to announce that stop, so I was definitely sure I was in the right place.

We all got our luggage and were taken to a pop-up testing facility for our COVID tests. No one really spoke much English, but it was easy to follow along with what to do based on their gestures and what others were doing. There was some paperwork to fill out that was all in Korean, but they helped as much as they could, and had a girl that was there who was also getting tested help me because she spoke English. Another example of how nice Koreans are!