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Real Reality · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

Incheon Named World's Best Airport
Korea's Incheon International Airport was named "Best Airport" at the second International Conference and Exhibition on Airport Service Quality in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Incheon also won two additional awards during the three-day conference: "Best Airport in Asia" and "Best Improvement of Overall Satisfaction."... Singapore's Changi and Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok shared second place, and Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur Airport came in third.
Chosun Ilbo (March 7, 2006)
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200603/200603070024.html

Bulsajo · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

Wow!
(no, not the story- the fact that RR is posting something positive about Korea. Wow!)

seattlespew · Joined: 01 Mar 2006

Incheon is definitely nice in comparison to others. I have no complaints about it. If only the rest of Korea were as marvelous as the first place you step in when you come here...

deessell · Joined: 08 Jun 2005

Hah!!! Why don't they have any English language ATM's though?

Moldy Rutabaga · Joined: 01 Jul 2003 Location: Ansan, Korea

Or tourist brochures in English? Nice to see "visit friendly, dynamic Korea" brochures written in a language that only residents understand. Or people at the bus or taxi transfer counters who speak the language? Or more than two people handling non-Korean passports at immigration? These are intangibles which "World's most complex metal-and-glass roof" awards don't cover.

But it is a nice airport generally, and at least spacious and clean.
Best airport (to me): Kuala Lumpur
Dirtiest, least organized airport: Montreal
Biggest airport: Heathrow. Man, does it ever end?
Smallest airport: Kona, Hawaii. Just a grass hut roof; no walls!

Ken:>

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

I agree it's the best. The best I've seen.

peppermint · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 5:19 pm Post subject:

Incheon is good, but hardly the best in Asia, never mind the world. Fly from Incheon to Singapore, then tell me that ICN is better than Changi.

Stuff that would improve it- More international restaurants, more things to do for intransit passengers, Maybe a bookstore that carried a few English language bestsellers ( along with the Korean ones), a couple of computers with free internet maybe. Introduce a few things that give you a taste of Korean culture,sculpture or art maybe.

On my last trip out I noticed that they're offering some kind of Korean craft workshop for intransit passengers now- nice touch.

ajgeddes · Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Location: Yongsan

Yeah, Incheon is a great airport. A little deceiving because it is just so clean, but then when you get into the country a completely different story.

I also think Kuala Lumpur airport is better. I love how wide open it is there and I also like how the people from arrivals and departures are all inter-mingling in the second terminal.

Worst airport has got to be Narita. It just sucks, there is nothing else you can say about it.

mind_body_and_seoul · Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Location: Gangnam

That's cool. I think it is a pretty nice airport.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

ajgeddes · Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Location: Yongsan

inspector gadget · Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Location: jeollanam-do in the boonies

Spinoza,

You don't see the filth???

Are you in the same Korea??

Korea is one of the filthiest places I have ever seen. Koreans treat there country like one big garbage dump. Look around the garbage is absolutely disgusting, go for a walk and look around on the ground.

Not sure where you live but the only places in Korea that seem to be void of an insane amount of litter are the mountains because its a spiritual place.

I can take 500 steps and see at least 1000 pieces of crap lying on the ground, everything from candy wrappers, tires, fridges, couches and anything else they don't want. To me its Koreas worst attribute without a doubt.

If the government of Korea wanted to make a lot of money they should simply inact and enforce a fine for littering. Oh no wait that might make everyone in Korea poor in a matter of months.

Corporal · Joined: 25 Jan 2003

I bet this was painful for RR to post. His finger probably hovered over the 'submit' button for a long time while he considered whether or not to do it--his desire to post yet another mundane article warring with the need to stay as negative as possible...

ahh...yokshi, the former urge won out.

crazylemongirl · Joined: 23 Mar 2003 Location: almost there...

Changi is way better. I got to have a city tour, a manicure, a far better hair cut than I ever had in korea, plus a shower during my last visit there.

Also incheon sucks, cause it's in the middle of nowhere. takes me longer to get to incheon than it does to fly from incheon to tokyo.