Starting Monday (18th April, 2022), Korea will lift all COVID-19 social distancing rules, except the mandatory wearing of masks.
 
Curfews on restaurants, cafes and other small businesses will be completely lifted, while the limit on the size of private gatherings will also be removed.

The country also plans to downgrade the COVID-19 infectious disease level by one notch to the second-highest level of its four-tier system.

This means COVID-19 patients will not be obliged to be in quarantine.

This downgrading from the current level 1 to level 2 will be implemented in late May after a four-week transition period.

The adjustment from level 1 to 2 when introduced will mean that individual patients will bear the cost of any required treatment.