And so start the rants

After having a mini honeymoon in Hong Kong (proper long one will be coming later), my wife and I arrived in Korea at 4.30 in the a.m. and lined up at immigration. My life being a Korean citizen, was through in the blink of an eye, since it was a foreign airline there weren't too many Koreans anyway. I on the other hand being a "foreigner", had to wait for what seemed like half an hour in a line full of couples who could have gone up together but each one of them insisted on being served one by one. Frustration.

While in Hong Kong I noticed a special "e-channel" service for foreigners (non-residents) who frequently travel to Hong Kong so the can just place their passport into a machine enter the country as easy as catching the subway. What I wonder is why there isn't a similar service here. Not even a separate booth or queue. With so many thousands of teachers and soldiers working and living in Korea, why not have a booth set aside for foreigners who hold a current Korean visa? Even at least for residents?

Another frustrating point was after arriving at 4.30 with 1 hour of sleep behind us, having to make our way down the hall of gates, catch the subway to the other terminal and walk some more just to get to immigration. Would it be so hard to park the plane at the main terminal> I'm sure the runways can't be too busy at that time of the morning.

On the topic of airports, We were not sure if we were heading to the right place when we went to check in for flight CX118 on Friday morning at Auckland International.