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- The director of the quarantine station may notify and take measures, including the prohibition of transfer, for passengers, crew members, and persons entering or departing from the Republic of Korea by land who are infected with or suspected of being infected with quarantinable infectious diseases, and means of transport and cargo contaminated or suspected of being contaminated by the pathogen of a quarantinable infectious disease (hereafter referred to in this Article “contaminated means of transport, etc.”) until the measures, such as inspection on whether a confirmed or suspected case occurs, disinfection, and destruction of goods, are completed at a place designated by the director of the quarantine station (formerly part of Article 19 (1) of the Quarantine Act and Article 15 (1) of the Enforcement Rules of the Quarantine Act).

- No one shall come into contact with or board the contaminated means of transport, etc. without the permission of the director of the quarantine station (Latter part of Article 19 (1) of the Quarantine Act).

- Sanction for violation

- In the following cases where the director of a quarantine station deems that a quarantine infectious disease is unlikely to spread to the Republic of Korea, he or she shall cancel the measures, such as the prohibition of transfer, etc., without delay, and notify the head of the means of transport or the owner of the cancelation (Article 19 (2) of the Quarantine Act and Article 15 (2) of the Enforcement Rules of the Quarantine Act).

- The director of the quarantine station may request the head of the relevant customs office to isolate goods deemed to require disinfection from other goods to keep the former from having contact with the latter among goods on the list of loaded goods (Article 21 of the Quarantine Act).